{"id":20344,"date":"2016-09-08T08:29:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T07:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20344"},"modified":"2016-09-08T08:29:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T07:29:44","slug":"the-assassination-of-reinhard-heydrich-1-two-book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20344","title":{"rendered":"The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (1): two book reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend sees the release in Britain of the film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4190530\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">&#8220;Anthropoid&#8221;<\/a> which tells the true story of the assassination of the Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Czechoslovakia in 1942. I&#8217;ll certainly been going to see it. But first I want to revisit an earlier film on the same subject: it was called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0075019\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">&#8220;Operation: Daybreak&#8221;<\/a> and issued in 1975.<\/p>\n<p>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<em>\u00a0&#8220;The Killing Of SS Obergruppenf\u00fchrer Reinhard Heydrich&#8221;<\/em> by Callum MacDonald [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/history3.html#Heydrich\">here<\/a>] and\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><em>&#8220;HHhH<\/em>&#8221; by Laurent Binet [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#HHhH\">here<\/a>].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">If you&#8217;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.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend sees the release in Britain of the film &#8220;Anthropoid&#8221; which tells the true story of the assassination of the Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Czechoslovakia in 1942. I&#8217;ll certainly been going to see it. But first I want to revisit an earlier film on the same subject: it was called &#8220;Operation: Daybreak&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20344"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20351,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20344\/revisions\/20351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}