Kõikide vastu

The book tells the story of one of the most heroic episodes in Czech history – the Hussite movement's civil war, in religious form, against the landlords of a foreign race and the Catholic Church, which broke out in the countryside between April 1420 and April 1421, when the movement, which had originally sought to democratise the ecclesiastical services, turned into an uprising against "all (the enemies of The Czech Republic)". With great mastery, the author depicts the contradictions between the individual ideological currents that emerged from the teachings of Jan Hus, Jan Žiska's actions as a military leader and politician, his ability to unite at a decisive moment all the divergent forces, the savage cruelty of the crusaders who had converged from all over Europe, the heroism of the common people and the religious fanaticism of the extreme wing of the Taabors, the so-called 'God-folk'.