Lidice: Sacrificial Village (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century, Human Conflict No. 2)

160 pp. To avenge the murder of the sadistic 'Protector' of occupied Czechoslovakia, the Gestapo dragged the inhabitants of Lidice from their homes, shot all the men over sixteen and condemned the women and children to a living death in concentration camps. The village was razed to the ground.