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The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich: Heroism, Terror and the Price of Resistance
Antonia Senior and Roger Moorhouse examine one of the most dramatic episodes of the Second World War: the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi official known as the "Butcher of Prague" and one of the principal architects of the Holocaust.
In May 1942, Czech and Slovak agents trained by Britain's Special Operations Executive launched Operation Anthropoid, a daring mission to kill one of Hitler's most feared lieutenants. The attack succeeded—but at a terrible cost. The Nazi reprisals that followed destroyed villages, killed thousands, and crushed much of the Czech resistance.
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