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HHhH, May 2012
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May 2012
On Sale: April 24, 2012
336 pages
ISBN: 0374169918
EAN: 9780374169916
Kindle: B0071VUNEE
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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 Gabćik and Jan Kubiš 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.
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