Ratings and awards• The most famous work of Czech literature in the world.• The book has been translated into more than 90 languages, repeatedly filmed and staged.• The author was posthumously awarded the International Peace Prize. What is this book written by a famous Czechoslovak journalist and anti-fascist, an active participant in the Resistance by Julius Fucik in the spring of 1943 in the dungeons of the Prague Gestapo - three months before the execution, between beatings, interrogations and torture. Thin sheets of tissue paper and a pencil were secretly given to him by the prison guard Adolf Kolinsky, who helped the Czech communists at the risk of his life. The completed book was removed piece by piece from the prison. In 1945, Fučík's wife Gusta, released from a concentration camp, collected all the hidden sheets and published them. Our edition in a new translation is preceded by her preface...How sad it is to be the last soldier who will receive the last bullet in the heart at the last second of the war. But someone has to be the last. If I knew that it would be me, then I would like to die right now. Julius Fucik reports from Pankratz prison, talking about all the horrors that he witnesses every day; survival under inhuman moral and physical pressure; about prisoners, guards and those comrades who remained in the wild; about a regime that only a few dare to resist; about betrayal and unbending will; about dignity and faith in the victory of good over evil. “Report with a Noose Around the Neck” is an extremely honest story of a man condemned to death, but who believes in the triumph of life. I ask those who survive this time to do one thing: do not forget! Do not forget either the good or the evil. Carefully collect testimonies of those who died for themselves and for you. The day will come when the present will become the past and people will talk about great times and the nameless heroes who made history. I would like everyone to know: there were no nameless heroes. There were people - and each had their own name, their own appearance, their own desires and hopes. And the torment of the most unnoticed among them is no less than the torment of the one whose name is preserved in human memory. I would like them to remain close to us forever, as our comrades, as relatives, as ourselves. Julius Fucik was posthumously awarded the International Peace Prize, and “Report with a Noose Around His Neck” was translated into more than 90 languages. In some countries, the book was published underground and passed among political prisoners and partisans in scattered notebooks and lists, inspiring thousands of people to fight the dictatorial regime. The Chilean poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda called the book “a monument to life created on the threshold of death.” For whom: For those who ask existential questions. For those interested in the history of the Second World War.