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Hhhh book5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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 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. 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. 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. HHhH: “Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich”, or “Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich”. Publication date: April /May 2012 (first published in France in 2010) Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Harvill Secker ![]() Genre: Historical, Fiction?/NonFiction? / World War II Author: Laurent Binet / Translated by Sam Taylor ![]()
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