The hero of the first, second, and third resistance, later known as the 'prisoner from Cejl.' When Petr Křivka learned that he would be executed, he wished to be shot. As befits a soldier. He had been a fighter his whole life; after World War I, he volunteered to fight for Slovakia in the emerging republic, during the Nazi occupation he became involved in the resistance, and under dramatic circumstances, he escaped from the Protectorate. In England, he served in the guard of President Beneš. When he began planning further resistance after the communist coup in February 1948, he became a victim of a grand provocation by secret police agents, who, with the help of decoy networks, imprisoned nearly two hundred free-thinking individuals, sent two men to the gallows, and drove one to suicide. Petr Křivka became one of the two executed. Despite his wish, he was hanged on July 21, 1951, in Brno at Cejl. The publication is accompanied by a wealth of period documents, archives, and photographs that have not been published before. The book is released in collaboration with the Academia publishing house.
