HHhH

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 336 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: HHhH: Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich, or Himmlers brain is called Heydrich. The most dangerous man in Hitlers 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 indestructibleuntil 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 Binets captivating debut novel, we follow Jozef Gabik 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 Heydrichs car to their own brutal death in the basement of a Prague church. A seemingly effortlessly blend of historical truth, personal memory, and Laurent Binets remarkable imagination, HHhHan international bestseller and winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt du Premier Romanis 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.

ISBN: 9781846554803