The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (1): two book reviews
This weekend sees the release in Britain of the film “Anthropoid” which tells the true story of the assassination of the Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Czechoslovakia in 1942. I’ll certainly been going to see it. But first I want to revisit an earlier film on the same subject: it was called “Operation: Daybreak” and issued in 1975.
On several occasions, I have visited the church in Prague where the parachutists who carried out the assassination were besieged by the Germans. Also I have read quite a lot about the operation, especially in the books “The Killing Of SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich” by Callum MacDonald [my review here] and “HHhH” by Laurent Binet [my review here].
If you’re interested in the assassination and its consequences and especially if you think you might see the new film, you might like to read my book reviews.