A headquarters unit of about 400 British and Czech soldiers entered during the weekend.

In that fateful fall of 1938, my uncle's secretary escorted a Czech soldier into his office at the Jewish bank.

First one, then the other, glanced at the two Czech soldiers who had been left standing at the door.

Czech soldiers, policemen and bureaucrats were stationed in areas formerly inhabited only by Germans.

Five Czech soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan.

Around 1.4 million Czech soldiers fought in World War I, 150,000 of them died.

The statement did not address the question of whether American officials were told that Czech soldiers had complained of illness.

The colonel, who is now 48, said that all of the Czech soldiers were in good health when they left for the gulf.

The commander of a German armoured carrier was killed, and two Czech soldiers seriously wounded during the exchange.

An estimated 1.4 million Czech soldiers fought in World War I, of whom some 150,000 died.