The Assassination of Heydrich: Hitler's Hangman and the Czech Resistance

This is Jan Wiener's story of his own flight from the Nazi invasion of Prague, his capture and imprisonment in Italy, and his eventual escape to England where he became part of a fighting force of Czech R.A.F flyers. Interwoven into the author's narrative is the story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, who was the Reichsprotector of occupied Czechoslovakia. Pieced together from survivors, observers and memoirs, as well as Nazi documents, the step-by-step account of the Heydrich assa...