Jan Book Club Read. 4.5 Stars HHhH by Laurent Binet is a novel filled with historically correct facts and traces the planning, execution and aftermath of Operation Anthropoid, the resistance’s successful plot to assassinate Heydrich in Prague. The two heroes of the novel are Jozef Gabcik and Jan Ku...
HHhH was terrific. It’s hard to recommend to just anyone because it’s best to be a little familiar with the figure of Reinhard Heydrich and his assassination to appreciate the book. But even Wikipedia could equip a reader sufficiently. As meta-fiction the author is very in the book, which pretty muc...
This novel is really more like a diary about the author's difficulty in writing fiction, and was really not what I expected it to be. I wanted to see and hear the story about the attack on Heydrich, not just hear the author complaining about how hard it is to do just that.
A chilling, tightly written story of WWII, about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942 in Prague. It's a story that took me right from the start, and one that has stuck with me. Along with the historical story, there is also Binet's personal story about researching and writing the book. Tak...
An incredibly clever, fascinating, completely gripping metafictional historical novel about Reinhard Heydrich, architect of Hitler's Final Solution, and his assassination in Prague. Brilliant!
I read many positive reviews about this WWII historical novel and looked forward to reading it, especially since it took place in Prague. For the first half of the book, I did not mind the author's interjections about the research progress and such. Near the end, I found it quite distracting and a...
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