HHhH: ?Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich?, or ?Himmler?s brain is called Heydrich?. The most dangerous man in Hitler?s cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich was known as the ?Butcher of Prague.? He was feared by all and loathed by most. With his cold Aryan features and implacable cruelty, Heydrich seemed indestructible?until two men, a Slovak and a Czech recruited by the British secret service, killed him in broad daylight on a bustling street in Prague, and thus changed the course of History.
Who were these men, arguably two of the most discreet heroes of the twentieth century? In Laurent Binet?s captivating debut novel, we follow Jozef Gab?ik and Jan Kubi? from their dramatic escape of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to England; from their recruitment to their harrowing parachute drop into a war zone, from their stealth attack on Heydrich?s car to their own brutal death in the basement of a Prague church.
A seemingly effortlessly blend of historical truth, personal memory, and Laurent Binet?s remarkable imagination, HHhH?an international bestseller and winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman?is a work at once thrilling and intellectually engrossing, a fast-paced novel of the Second World War that is also a profound meditation on the nature of writing and the debt we owe to history.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 336 pages. Cover wornEveryone has heard of Reinhard Heydrich , the Butcher of Prague. And most have heard stories of his assas sination at the hands of two Czechoslovakian partisans. But who e xactly were the forgotten heroes who killed one of history's most notorious men? In this novel, HHhH (Himmlers Hirn heiBt Heydrich , or Himmler's brain is called Heydrich), we follow the lives of Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubi?, the Slovak and the Czech responsible for Heydrich's 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 par achute drop into a war zone; from their stealth attack on Heydric h's car to their own brutal deaths in the basement of a Prague ch urch, Binet narrates the compelling story of these two incredible men, rescuing their heroic acts from obscurity. A seemingly effo rtless blend of historical truth, personal memory, and Binet's re markable imagination, HHhH is a work at once thrilling and deeply engrossing -- a historical novel and a profound meditation on th e nature of writing and the debt we owe to history. Seller Inventory # 1413n
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 336 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Seller Inventory # 181812
Book Description Condition: Good. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, in 1942: Two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, chief 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': 'Himmler's Hirn heisst Heydrich' - Himmler's brain is called Heydrich. All the characters in HHhH are real. All the events depicted are true. But alongside the nerve-shredding preparations for the attack runs another story: when you are a novelist writing about real people, how do you resist the temptation to make things up? 384 pages. Seller Inventory # 1182576