Thomas J. Bata. Remembered

There is no doubt that Thomas J. Bata (1914 –2008), the 'Shoemaker to the World', who built the largest shoe empire of all time, was a man of global significance. But something strange happened when he returned to Czechoslovakia in 1989. When welcoming Thomas J. Bata back home, the Czechs were in fact celebrating the return of his father, and had...