The current Slovak name of the village was given by the authorities in 1948 after Jozef Gabčík, a Slovak soldier involved in Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
The novel follows the history of the operation and the life of its protagonists – Heydrich and his assassins Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš.
On 27 May 1942, at 10:30 AM, Heydrich proceeded on his daily commute from his home in Panenské Břežany to Prague Castle.
Józef Piłsudski | Józef Ignacy Kraszewski | Józef Simmler | Józef Poniatowski | Jozef Gabčík | Józef Michalik | Józef Andrzej Załuski | Józef Dominik | University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik | Józef Wybicki | Jozef Štafura | Józef Razowski | Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński | Józef Mackiewicz | Józef Kustroń | Jozef Israëls | Józef Dwernicki | Jozef Cleber | Józef Brudziński | Jozef Brudzinski | Józef Bem | Józef Zajączek | Józef Wojciechowski | Jozef Tomko | Józef Sowiński | Józef Potocki | Józef Pietrończyk | Józef Peszka | Józef Olszyna-Wilczyński | Jozef Murgaš |
On December 29, 1941 Czechoslovak paratroopers Gabčík and Kubiš sent by exile government in London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich were inserted near Nehvizdy (they overflew predesignated target area near Pilsen by more than hundred kilometres due to navigational error of their plane crew).