It's a book about a mission of Czech and Slovakian nationals, who have escaped Czechoslovakia, going back to Prague to assassinate a Nazi leader. I got the sense early on that this would be one of those books I'd be recommending for the rest of my life. It seems like it would have been a compelling story and at times it starts to be, then the author interjects something like, "I wrote this sentence but my girlfriend didn't like it, but I kept it anyway." ugh.Ī great historical non-fiction/novel/memoir/diaryĪn incredible book. I don't know why he wrote the book this way. I thought it was just a lengthy FOREWARD or something. WTF? The first three chapters of the book are the author's ramblings about thinking about writing a book. He literally interrupts the story to say things like, "I was going to write that Heidrich had pancakes for breakfast, but I didn't know for sure if that would be historically accurate".
The problem with the book is that the author is writing about his attempt to write this story. This should have been a much better book considering the story it aims to tell about the assassination of Heidrich. But the weird method of telling the story gets in the way. The actual story and history that the book wants to tell is compelling.
Sure there was no issue with the narrator. Would you be willing to try another one of John Lee’s performances?
What do you think your next listen will be? Would you try another book from Laurent Binet and/or John Lee? Weird storytelling just didn't work for me. Who were these men, arguably two of the most discreet heroes of the twentieth century? In Laurent Binet's captivating debut novel, we follow Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubiš from their dramatic escape of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to England from their recruitment to their harrowing parachute drop into a war zone, from their stealth attack on Heydrich's car to their own brutal death in the basement of a Prague church.Ī seemingly effortlessly blend of historical truth, personal memory, and Laurent Binet's remarkable imagination, HHhH- an international best seller and winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman - is a work at once thrilling and intellectually engrossing, a fast-paced novel of the Second World War that is also a profound meditation on the nature of writing and the debt we owe to history. With his cold Aryan features and implacable cruelty, Heydrich seemed indestructible - until two men, a Slovak and a Czech recruited by the British secret service - killed him in broad daylight on a bustling street in Prague, and thus changed the course of History. HHhH: "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The most dangerous man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich was known as the "Butcher of Prague." He was feared by all and loathed by most.
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