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Eventually, he falls in love with a nazi woman athlete as the germans are invading czechoslovakia. The few, who were called thegns, served the king, generally. The book was published in 1983 officially even though the writer had written it many years before. Bohumil hrabals novel, i served the king of england, about a czech waiter who barely survives world war ii, may sound dire but author. This is the account of the fiftynine regicides, the men who signed charles is death warrant. Ditie is called upon to serve not the king of england, but haile selassie.
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