The central figure of "HHhH" is Reinhard Heydrich, a vicious and politically savvy minister in Adolf Hitler's cabinet. The book's title comes from the phrase "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich" or ...

THE LIBERATION OF the Nazi concentration camps at the end of World War II gave the world a new atlas of atrocity. Ever since, place names such as Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen have been synonyms for ...

Laurent Binet tackles the story of a Nazi and the two Czechoslovakian war heroes who set out to assassinate him and writes a marvelous, charming, engaging novel. But he’s not quite sure how he feels ...

This first novel by former schoolteacher, Laurent Binet, won France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman in 2010. HHhH is the heroic and tragic story of two resistance fighters sent to Prague ...

The book has been translated into Persian by Ahmad Parhizi. Reinhard Heydrich is the most lethal man in Hitler’s cabinet and seemed indestructible, until two exiled operatives, a Slovak and a Czech, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. LAURENT Binet's remarkable debut novel, HHhH, is an account of the 1942 plot to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, one of the ...

Laurent Binet tackles the story of a Nazi and the two Czechoslovakian war heroes who set out to assassinate him and writes a marvelous, charming, engaging novel. But he’s not quite sure how he feels ...

“Once again, the writer stains the tree of History with his thoughts, but it is not for us to find the trick that would enable us to put the animal back in its carrying cage,” writes Russian poet Osip ...

With "HHhH", Laurent Binet illuminates the life and assassination of "The Butcher of Prague," Reinhard Heydrich, who rose in Nazi ranks as a favorite of SS chief Heinrich Himmler. Binet's novel takes ...

Not too many first novels come at you like this one. Laurent Binet’s debut, based on the true story of the British and Czech mission to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Nazi secret services ...