Assasination. Operation «Anthropoid». 1941-1942

• Book ID: 125971985
• Publisher: Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic - AVIS
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 62 KB
• Category: Standards
• ISBN-13: 9788072781584

✦ Synopsis

You are opening a book that tells a story of cruelty, heroism and betrayal in an original manner and without cliches. It is a story that has all the attributes of an ancient tragedy. It involves a blood-thirsty dictator, courageous avengers as well as a vile traitor. Yet an insuperable abyss separates it from ancient tragedy. The story of the assassination of the Deputy Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich is not the work of a Greek dramatist. It is a story written by life itself. And the thousands of dead Czech patriots are real indeed. The assassination of Heydrich was undeniably the most important deed of the Czech resistance movement against the Nazi occupation, on a European-wide scale. None of the resistance movements in those other countries occupied by the Nazis managed to hit such a highly placed target. That the assassination on 27 May 1942 was an entirely exceptional event is proved by the fact that whenever I talk to my foreign colleagues about the participation of Czech soldiers in the second world war, two moments are immediately brought to mind: our pilots in Britain and the assassination.

✦ Subjects

sci_history