Description
Everyone has heard of Reinhard Heydrich, the Butcher of Prague. And most have heard stories of his assassination at the hands of two Czechoslovakian partisans. But who exactly were the forgotten heroes who killed one of history‚Äôs most notorious men? In this novel, HHhH (Himmlers Hirn heiBt Heydrich, or Himmler‚Äôs brain is called Heydrich), we follow the lives of Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubi≈°, the Slovak and the Czech responsible for Heydrich‚Äôs death. From their heroic escape from Nazi-occupied Prague to their recruitment by the British secret services; from their meticulous preparation and training to their harrowing parachute drop into a war zone; from their stealth attack on Heydrich‚Äôs car to their own brutal deaths in the basement of a Prague church, Binet narrates the compelling story of these two incredible men, rescuing their heroic acts from obscurity. A seemingly effortless blend of historical truth, personal memory, and Binet‚Äôs remarkable imagination, HHhH is a work at once thrilling and deeply engrossing — a historical novel and a profound meditation on the nature of writing and the debt we owe to history.
