The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich /​ Callum MacDonald

• The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich / Callum MacDonald.

Author

• MacDonald, C. A.

Other Authors

• MacDonald, C. A. Killing of Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, 27 May 1942.

Edition

• [New ed.]

Published

• Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2007.

Content Types

• text

Carrier Types

• 1 volume

Physical Description

• ix, 292 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.

Subjects

• Heydrich, Reinhard, 1904-1942 -- Assassination.
• Heydrich, Reinhard, 1904-1942.
• Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel.
• Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel -- Biography.
• World War (1939-1945)
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Czechoslovakia.
• Assassination.
• Politics and government.
• Underground movements, War.
• Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
• Czechoslovakia.
• Germany.

Summary

• On 4 June 1942 one of the most powerful figures of the Nazi regime died in agony from wounds sustained during an assassination attempt in Prague. This is the story of the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, a man of extraordinary intelligence, ruthlessness and ambition who had risen from obscurity to become head of the Nazi security police and Governor of Bohemia-Moravia. Regarded by many as Hitler’s most likely successor, he was feared and hated even by other high-ranking Nazi officials. --Back cover.

Contents

• Introduction
• Part I The Target
• 1. Funeral in Berlin
• 2. Hitler's Secret Policeman
• 3. The Czech Connection
• Part II The Plan
• 4. Exiles
• 5. Time for Action
• Part III The Operation
• 6. The Butcher of Prague
• 7. Return
• 8. Preparations
• 9. Assassination
• 10. Ending
• Appendix 1: Acronyms and Codenames
• 2 More...

Notes

• First published as The killing of SS Obergruppenfürher Reinhard Heydrich, 27 May 1942. London : Macmillan, 1989.
• Includes index.
• Bibliography: p. [259]-262.

Language

• English