In occupied Prague, two paratroopers struck Reinhard Heydrich, defied a citywide manhunt, and made their last stand in a flooded crypt—so a nation could rise again. This concise introduction traces the night drops of 29 Dec 1941, the ambush at Heydrich’s Curve on 27 May 1942, the Lidice massacre, and the seven-hour fight in the crypt of Sts. Cyril & Methodius. It’s a story of courage under impossible odds—and why it mattered for the restoration of Czechoslovakia after the war.