New translation of one of the GREATEST books of all time
(the only Czech book on most 100 Best Books of the 20th Century lists)

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Book One, Book Two
           and Book(s) Three&Four
                           as e-Books@ $5 each . . .

 

 

"They killed him in Sarajevo, Mr. Švejk. They shot him with a revolver as he was riding with that archduchess of his in an automobile."

Homeland Security, Old-World Style

"The Austrian Ministry of Interior devised the following grades of loyalty and steadfastness toward the Monarchy: Ia, Ib, Ic—IIa, IIb, IIc—IIIa, IIIb, IIIc—IVa, IVb, IVc. The last Roman numeral, four, in connection with the letter a meant high treason and the rope, with the letter b internment, and with c an order to monitor and lock up the perpetrator.

"In the State police Station Chief’s desk there were to be found all kinds of forms and records. The Government wanted to know of each citizen how it was thought of."
                                                Book Two, Chapter 2

 

What better way to "close the books" on the twentieth century, than by looking back at where it all began? So, kick off your shoes, make yourself comfortable, and enjoy.
While he was waiting, Svejk looked over the judge advocate's office. It did not create a very favorable impression, especially the photographs that adorned its walls. They were pictures of various actions taken by the army in Galicia and Serbia. They were carefully composed photographs of burnt-out cottages, and of trees with branches straining from the weight of the human bodies hanging from them. Especially cute was a photograph from Serbia featuring an entire family who had been hanged: a small boy, a mother, a father. In the picture, two soldiers with bayonets stood guarding the tree with this entire family hanging in it. In the foreground stood an officer posturing like a victor, smoking a cigarette. In the background, a field kitchen could be seen, hard at work.

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