HHhH - Laurent Binet

Laurent Binet - HHhH | HHhH trailer
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Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 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'.

His boss is Heinrich Himmler but everyone in the SS says 'Himmler's brain is called Heydrich', which in German spells HHhH.

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?

HHhH is a panorama of the Third Reich told through the life of one outstandingly brutal man, a story of unbearable heroism and loyalty, revenge and betrayal. It is improbably entertaining and electrifyingly modern, a moving and shattering work of fiction.

'HHhH is a highly original piece of work, at once charming, moving, and gripping.' Martin Amis

'HHhH blew me away. Binet's style fuses it all together: a neutral, journalistic honesty sustained with a fiction writer's zeal and story-telling instincts. It's one of the best historical novels I've ever come across.' Brett Easton Ellis

'By the time I got to the last page of Binet's masterpiece, I had to close my eyes and rethink history. I'm rethinking it still.' Gary Shteyngart

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[Lee Lorenz]

or walking down the street. Or in a horse drawn cart. Anyway, they should be moving.

[David Harman]

Terrific book!

[Josemaria Vr]

this book is a masterpiece...just incredible.

[john o'sullivan]

I liked the book immensely. However Philip Kerr mentions the possibility that Heydrich was

poisoned by Hitler's physician in hospital because he was seen as a threat.

[urmumscuntful]

dirty frenchman

[mikeyboy222]

c'était très intéressant de venir sur votre vidéo. J'ai aussi écrit un livre sur le même sujet, mais mon travail est fictif, mais plus proche de la vérité que j'ai réalisé. Je vais signaler votre vidéo en tant que «comme» et télécharger une réponse plus appropriée. bon chance. :)

[mikeydread62]

All author interviews should be conducted in moving cars.