HHhH by Laurent Binet

New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year 
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

HHhH: "HIMMLERS HIRN HEISST HEYDRICH," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The most lethal man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich seemed indestructible -- until two exiled operatives, a Slovak and a Czech, killed him and changed the course of history.
   In Laurent Binet's mesmerising debut, we follow Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis from their dramatic escape from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to their fatal attack on Heydrich and their own brutal deaths in the basement of a Prague church. A seamless blend of memory, actuality, and Binet's own remarkable imagination, HHhH is at once thrilling and intellectually engrossing--a fast-paced novel of the Second World War that is also a profound meditation on the debt we owe to history.

Genres:  Historical Fiction - War - World War II - France - Germany - French Literature