The Killing of SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich - 27th May 1942 MacDonald, Callum by Callum Macdonald

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

New York: Free Press. Hardcover. 1989. 1st Edition. 8vo 239pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations .

Macmillan, 1989. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 239 pages illustrated. A very good copy with no previous ownership markings in a complete dust jacket that is now protected by removable mylar.

Macmillan, London, first edition, 1989. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. viii, 239 pp, [16] pp of plates. On 27 May 1942 a Czech agent, part of a team of parachutists trained by SOE, threw a bomb at a passing Mercedes. His intended victim was Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's deputy and one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich, reckoned to be the most likely eventual successor to Hitler. Eight days later Heydrich died in agony from his wounds. The assassination sent a shock wave through the Nazi leadership and provoked ferocious reprisals against Czechs and Jews. Of these the most notorious was the total obliteration of Lidice, a Czech village, and the massacre of its inhabitants. The parachutists who carried out the assassination hid from the fury of the Nazi search in the cellar of a Prague church. Finally betrayed, they were surrounded by hundreds of Gestapo and Czech police and in the final shoot-out they defended themselves until the end, each committing suicide with his last bullet. Based on… Read More

Macmillan, 1989., 1989. 1st ed. 1239p. Photos. Jacket priced. Paper toning. Near Fine/Fine Copy. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine.

London: Macmillan, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. large Octavo. pp VIII, 239.. 1st printing. Page edge browning.