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Well that would be a spoiler, we can't actually tell You that. xD

No, the czech books are not wrongly translated. It is the special kind of narration called "the retrospective". Once in Geralt's unconscious, where he dreams intoxicated about the Beltaine night with Yennerfer and about his last meeting with Calanthe, it is most certainly, I tell you now, 100 percent the past. He recalls this while dreaming.

Now when he wakes up, he realises that he is on the Yurga's cart going to Yurga's home, and falls asleep exhausted again. Then he recalls in the dream the meeting with Dandelion.

Yes, the war part was also a dream, but not because it didn't happen, it did happen, just BEFORE the time when Geralt is actually dreaming, which is the Yurga's cart...Retrospective...Google it. xD

Yes, Ciri escaped precisely because of the war...Detailed scene of her escape in the next book "The Blood of Elves".

Going East and helping people-Emhyr's troops attacked the south-eastern borders first.