HHhH

by Binet, Laurent

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Title Statements

Full title :HHhH / Laurent Binet ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.

Summary

Everyone has heard of Reinhard Heydrich, the Butcher of Prague. And most have heard stories of his spectacular assassination at the hands of two Czechoslovakian partisans. But who exactly were the forgotten heroes who killed one of historyu 2019s most notorious men? In Laurent Binetu 2019s captivating debut novel, HHhH (Himmlers Hirn heiBt Heydrich, or Himmleru 2019s brain is called Heydrich), we follow the lives of Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubi, the Slovak and the Czech responsible for Heydrich{u2019s death. From their heroic escape from Nazi-occupied Prague to their recruitment by the British secret services; from their meticulous preparation and training to their harrowing parachute drop into a war zone; from their stealth attack on Heydrichu 2019s car to their own brutal deaths in the basement of a Prague church, Binet narrates the compelling story of these two incredible men, rescuing their heroic acts from obscurity. The winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman, Binetu 2019s HHhH is a novel unlike anything else. A seemingly effortless blend of historical truth, personal memory, and Binetu 2019s remarkable imagination, HHhH is a work at once thrilling and deeply engrossingu 2014a historical novel and a profound meditation on the nature of writing and the debt we owe to history.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.
Edition:1st American ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:336 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780374169916, 0374169918, 9781250033345, 1250033349
oclc:ocn789645681
LC Classification:PQ2702.I57
Dewey Decimal:843/.92

Subjects

Assassination Czechoslovakia Fiction Germany Heydrich, Reinhard Historical fiction War -- Underground movements World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction. -- Ger… World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction. -- Und…