William V. Wallace graduated in History at the University of Glasgow and in Czechoslovak Regional Studies at the University of London. He has visited Czechoslovakia several times since 1949 and has researched in its archives. He has also travelled and studied in the Soviet Union. In 1953-54 he lectured at the University of Pittsburgh and studied the history of Slavonic immigration into the United States. He has held lecturing appointments in the Universities of London, Aberdeen, and Durham, and is now Professor of History in the New University of Ulster, Coleraine. He has contributed to International Affairs, Slavonic Review, Journal of American Studies , etc.

• Introduction Part 1: Book One 1. The Czech Lands 1849–1878 2. The Czech Lands 1878–1900 3. The Czech Lands 1900–1914 4. Slovakia 1849–1875 5. Slovakia 1875–1900 6. Slovakia 1900–1914 7. The Creation of the Czechoslovakia State Part 2: Book Two 8. Establishing Czechoslovakia 9. Czech0Sl0Vakia in the 1920s 10. From the Wall Street Crash to Munich and Prague 11. The Resurrection of Czechoslovakia 12. From Liberation to Communism 13. Communist Czechoslovakia 14. Reform and Reaction 1968 15. Interlude