In Tom Clancy's 1986 novel Red Storm Rising, about a hypothetical war between the Warsaw Pact and NATO, this ship was given the role of being used for the Soviet invasion of Iceland. The composer Luigi Nono wrote a musical piece titled Julius Fučík based on Notes from the Gallows. References in popular culture The position and reverence of Fučík during Communist Czechoslovakia is depicted by Milan Kundera in his book The Joke from 1967. There he describes how the portrait of Fučík hangs in public buildings where public expulsions from the Communist Party took place, and how Fučík's book is recited and used as propaganda by the Communist party. "I recognized Fučík's Notes from the Gallows...That text, written clandestinely in prison, then published after the war in a million copies, broadcast over the radio, studied in schools as required reading, was the sacred book of the era." Reassessment After the Party lost its power in 1989, the legend of Fučík became a target of scrutiny. It was made public that some parts of the book Notes from the Gallows (around 2%) had been omitted and that the text had been "sanitized" by Gusta Fučíková. There were speculations as to how much information he gave his torturers, and whether he had turned traitor. In 1995 the complete text of the book was published. The part in which Fučík describes how he succumbed to torture was published for the first time. In it, one learns that Fučík gave false information to his captors, saving countless lives among the Czech resistance to the Nazis. The historian Alena Hájková coedited the critical edition of Fučík's memoir. Notes Selected works Reports Reportáže z buržoazní republiky, published in journals, collected in 1948 V zemi, kde zítra již znamená včera, about the Soviet Union, 1932 V zemi milované, about the Soviet Union, published posthumously in 1949 Reportáž psaná na oprátce (Notes from the Gallows), 1947, complete text in 1995, many editions and translations Theatrical critiques and literary essays Milujeme svoji zem, 1948 Stati o literatuře, 1951 Božena Němcová bojující, O Sabinově zradě, Chůva published in Tři studie, 1947. Other Pokolení před Petrem, an autobiographical novel, unfinished, 1939 See also Julius Fučík (1872–1916), composer and Fučík's uncle. References Notes from the Gallows, Radko Šťastný: Čeští spisovatelé deseti století, Prague 2001, External links Howard Fast: Review of Notes from the Gallows, 1948 Biography 1903 births 1943 deaths Writers