In the hot summer of 1944 Slovakia moved over to join the right side of the war. This was no thanks to the government of the time, but to the opposition who in order to salvage the nation and its interests, proved to be capable of overcoming its various irreconcilable political and personal disputes. Where would we be today without the Slovak National Uprising? What did it mean and what does it mean for our history? The contemporary Slovak Republic was at war with the anti-Nazi allies, which had, as early as 1941, acknowledged the Beneš government in London as the...