The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich: The SS 'Butcher of Prague'

About this book

The extraordinary account of one of the most daring World War II missions as told in the movie Anthropoid If anyone warranted assassination during World War II the man to know was Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942) -- chief of the security police rabid anti-Semite architect of the Final Solution ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and Hitlers most likely successor. In 1941 at the height of the Nazis seeming invincibility the Czech government-in-exile launched a desperate operation to kill Heydrich. From the assassins training in England to their Thermopylae-like last stand in the flooded crypt of a Prague church and the Nazis savage reprisals (including the obliteration of two villages) The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich brilliantly recounts one of World War IIs most daring and tragic missions.