Friends and foes: Czechs/Slovaks and Serbia during the First World War.

Abstract

By presenting the most recent scholarship on the intense, although not turbulent, relations between Serbia on one side and Czechs and Slovaks on the other, this article aims to show how the unique experience of being on opposite sides during the First World War did not necessarily lead toward creation of animosities and controversies. On the contrary, it not only resulted in support, understanding and cooperationm but also led to the creation of new and deepening of existing liaisons in the decades that followed the first global conflict.