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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 indestructibleuntil 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 Gabcík and Jan Kubiš 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 engrossinga fast-paced novel of the Second World War that is also a profound meditation on the debt we ow

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 23 July 2013
      ISBN-13 9781250033345
      978-1250033345
      ISBN-10 1250033349

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 indestructibleuntil 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 Gabcík and Jan Kubiš 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 engrossinga fast-paced novel of the Second World War that is also a profound meditation on the debt we ow

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