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ISBN: 1250033349

ISBN13: 9781250033345

HHhH

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"Captivating . . . HHhH] has a vitality very different from that of most historical fiction." --James Wood, The New Yorker

The basis for the major motion picture, "The Man with the Iron Heart " available on streaming and home video.

HHhH: "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The most lethal man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich seemed indestructible--until two exiled operatives, a Slovak and a Czech, killed him and changed the course of history.

In Laurent Binet's mesmerizing debut, we follow Jozef Gabc k and Jan Kubis from their dramatic escape from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to their fatal attack on Heydrich and their own brutal deaths in the basement of a Prague church. A seamless blend of memory, actuality, and Binet's own remarkable imagination, HHhH is at once thrilling and intellectually engrossing--a fast-paced novel of the Second World War that is also a profound meditation on the debt we owe to history.

A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

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If you don't know anything about historical research IT'S NOT FOR YOU

Published by Needle , 4 months ago
I love this book not just for the narrative of two WWII Czech and Slav heroes parachuting in to kill the Butcher of Prague but because of the way Binet writes in short segments, bouncing between past and present of writing the book and the villains, heroes, and bureaucrats of WWII. Anyone who has had to do research understands that a lot of choices have to be made about how much you have to lie to fill in the gaps when not all the data is present. It's sympathy. Additionally how the author writes doesn't hide behind fictionalization. Hundreds of thousands of people were executed by believers and opportunists, murders were systematically designed by brilliant fools, and the book shows just how cruel a mundane chauvinist looking for a promotion can be.

Awful!

Published by Brian Delaney , 3 years ago
Binet goes to extraordinary and sadly very successful lengths to make a book about World War 2 heroes instead about what a terrible author he is. He spends more pages whining about writing the book than actually telling the story. Truly one of the worst and, frankly, most embarrassing books I’ve ever read.
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