This classic book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Slovakia, from its establishment on the Danubian Plain to the present. While paying tribute to Slovakia's resilience and struggle for survival, it describes contributions to European civilization in the Middle Ages; the development of Slovak consciousness in response to Magyarization; its struggle for autonomy in Czechoslovakia after the Treaty of Versailles; its resistance, as the first Slovak Republic, to a Nazi-controlled Europe; its reaction to Communism; and the path that led to the creation of the second Slovak Republic. Now fully updated to the present day, the book examines the vagaries of Slovak post-Communist politics that led to Slovakia's membership in NATO and the European Union.
^Stanislav J. KirschbaumA History of Slovakia : The Struggle for Survival by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum (2005, Paperback, Revised)ISBN 9781403969293 (revised Mar 2015)
^Kirschbaum (2014). A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival, Palgrave Macmillan. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9781403969293 (revised Nov 2023)
^Stanislav J. Kirschbaum (2005). A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival, Palgrave Macmillan Trade. Amazon. ISBN 9781403969293 (revised Feb 2015)
