HHhH

by Binet, Laurent

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Title Statements

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

Summary

We are in Prague, in 1942. Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent by London plan to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich u head of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangerous man in the Third Reich'. Heydrich works for Hitler's most powerful henchman, Heinrich Himmler, but in the SS they say 'HHhH': 'Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich' u Himmler's brain is called Heydrich. All the characters in HHhH existed then or still exist now. All the events depicted are true. But alongside the nerve-shredding story of the preparations for the attack runs another story: when you are writing about real people, how do you resist the temptation to make things up? HHhH is a panorama of the Third Reich told through the life of one outstandingly brutal man, a story of unbearable heroism and loyalty, revenge and betrayal.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

Description:257 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1846554802, 9780374169916, 0374169918, 9781846554797, 1846554799, 9781846554803
oclc:ocn801398398
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…