Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:55:57 +0200https://english.radio.cz/jiri-sulc-retelling-a-story-wartime-heroism-8602355© 2026 Radio Prague International The young Czech writer Jiri Sulc recently shot to fame when he won the annual Czech Book Club award for his bestselling novel Dva proti Risi - translating literally as "two against the Reich". The book tells the story of two of the Czechoslovak patriots parachuted to occupied Bohemia and Moravia from London at the height of the Second World War. Their goal was to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - "the Butcher of Prague". He was the man that Hitler had put in charge of the occupied Czech Lands, and at the Wannsee Conference of January 1942 Heydrich was the prime instigator of the genocide of Europe's Jews, the "Final Solution". The assassination is one of the best known episodes involving Czechs in the Second World War, so, when I met up with Jiri on a brief visit to Prague from Brussels where he now lives, I asked him why he chose to retell the story. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 https://english.radio.cz/jiri-sulc-retelling-a-story-wartime-heroism-8602355 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9