Reddit reviews The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich: The SS 'Butcher of Prague'

If you're interested in the Double Cross system then I'd definitely recommend Deceiving Hitler: Double-Cross and Deception in World War II by Terry Crowdy. The writing is a little dry but the stories are usually interesting enough to make up for it. If you're interested in other western front covert operations we read some other pretty fascinating books, especially:

• Flames in the Field: The Story of Four SOE Agents in Occupied France - covers the Special Operations Executive, which was an organization that was supposed to sabotage the Axis war machine behind enemy lines (it wasn't very successful) while specifically relating the story of 4 female agents
  
• Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America - a really interesting story about a group of Germans who managed to infiltrate America via submarine but never managed to fulfill their goal of sabotage because the utter incompetence of the FBI (seriously, they acted like idiots) was matched only by the incompetence of the Germans. Also interesting from a modern perspective because some of the agents were tried and executed by a paranoid American justice system.
  
• The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich: The SS 'Butcher of Prague' - I actually hadn't heard of Heydrich before the course but he was a major force within the Nazi Party (he helped formulate the "final solution") who was assassinated while head of Czechoslovakia by members of the Czechoslovakian resistance with the support of the British. It was the highest profile assassination of the western theater (perhaps its only match in the entire war was the assassination of the Japanese general Yamamoto). The book is really well written and the assassination itself is a pretty tragic tale.
  
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Have you read The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich: The SS 'Butcher of Prague'? I had the great fortune of meeting Col. Jaroslav Šustr back in 1987 and again in 1988 before he died of brain cancer. Hearing his story firsthand was something I didn't fully appreciate until many years later. (he was married to my high school World Studies teacher...no joke!)

Just finished reading "The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich" which was very captivating.

http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Reinhard-Heydrich-Butcher-Prague/dp/0306808609/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323899892&sr=8-1