A new book and companion exhibition highlight a Czech photographer's stunning snapshots of the Soviet invasion of Prague. Josef Koudelka/Magnum PhotosWenceslas Square, Prague, 1968 One afternoon in ...

Through his camera's lens, Josef Koudelka elevated the horrors of incursion to biblical heights. The Czechoslovakian exile's subject was the August 1968 invasion of Prague, a horrific series of events ...

"I remember the noise made by a tank unit on August 21, 1968," said Kvetoslava Dufkova, a pensioner from the small town of Davle just south of Prague, who was 14 at the time. "The Soviets then arrived ...

Soviet troops had invaded the city five days earlier, bringing an end to the Prague Spring, a tentative attempt to liberalise the Communist system. Standing in the square, they only had time to raise ...