# Invasion Prague 68

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- Authors: [Josef Koudelka](https://www.bookquiver.com/josef-koudelka)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2026-09-10

## Description

Josef Koudelka’s landmark photographs of the Prague Spring and the resulting Soviet invasion. Josef Koudelka never planned to become a conflict reporter. That all changed on the night of 21 August, when Soviet tanks entered Prague, ending the short-lived political liberalization in Czechoslovakia. 'I wasn’t a reporter,' Koudelka recalls. 'I had never photographed anything that you would call ''news''. Suddenly, for the first time in my life, I was confronted with that kind of situation. I responded to it. I knew it was important to photograph, so I photographed.' For fear of repercussions, Koudelka originally published the images under the pseudonym 'PP' (Prague photographer). The intensity and significance of the images earned the still-anonymous photographer the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. Sixteen years would pass before Koudelka could safely acknowledge authorship. Now reissued in a hardback

## Editions

### Invasion Prague 68

- Publisher: thames_and_hudson
- ISBN: 978-05-0002-923-7
- Pages: 296
- Published: 2026-09-10
- Language: en_GB