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Laurent Binet,Sam Taylor | 336 pages | 01 Mar 2013 | Vintage Publishing | 9780099555643 | English | London, United Kingdom HHhH - Wikipedia

It doesn't matter though. This story is so well suited to the screen it's still a very interesting movie to watch even though it has been done so many times - , Anthropoid and now this movie. The scope is broader than Anthropoid showing lots of brutality in Poland, what Heydrich was responsible for and later reprisals in . But Anthropoid handled the church gun battle in a more exciting action movie way so I recommend watching both movies. It's still one of the most exciting and tragic stories of WWII and is very suited to screen treatment. A major fault is the gun battle in the church is inaccurately portrayed. The were on the balcony. Also the Church isn't faithfully recreated. There is a silly deviance making the Moravec son a young boy when he was actually older. Mia Wasikowska is quite suited to the love interest resistance girlfriend of one of them. Despite the faults this is worth watching even if you think you think you may have seen the story before. The Nazi fiddle player searchanddestroy-1 13 June This story of the is well known of all WW2 historians and people interested in this part of history. It is very well done, with a good description of characters. But it is unfortunately not said that this action of killing Heydrich did not change anything at all to the war. Nothing, except that the Nazis were very affected by his death, including Hitler, and this lead to the Lidice's massacre, which is told, however. But besides this, the man who replaced Heydrich - Kaltenbrunner - was even more bloodthirsty as him. Good intentions. This version gets around the issue by instead focusing on Jason Clarke's Heydrich and in particularly his relationship with his wife Rosamund Pike. As such, the first half makes for fresh, involving viewing, family drama punctuated by hard-hitting violence and Clarke's bravura performance. The terrible reprisals that followed Reinhard Heydrich's assassination in in aged just 38 tend to obscure his long career as a ruthless fixer for Himmler and his key role in initiating the Final Solution more recently compensated for by the two TV recreations of the Wannsee Conference over which he presided as Himmler's representative which would have have earned him a major role in the Nuremberg Trials had he been taken alive. Despite flashing back to his days as a champion fencer in the twenties, it largely skips Heydrich's ascent during the thirties and his participation in the Night of the Long Knives in and once more concentrates on his time in Prague - with much emphasis on plush decor and tiresome use of diffused 'period' lighting and steadicam - where the emphasis is again on how he died rather than how he lived. His henchman Karl Frank - despite being publicly hanged in Wenceslas Square in - is also conspicuous by his absence. Great movie! In my view the cast was very important in the charms of the movie. Jason Clarke was the perfect person for the role of Reinhard Heydrich. The way he acts is giving you sympathy for the person he play, meanwhile you don't want this sympathy feeling for this person. This internal sense of feeling gives the film a continuous tension from begin to end. In my view the abstract scene's always got some details in it, this makes that no scene is boring to watch. I personally like the movie build up, very well done. It's not authentic. Many mistakes. Amateur approach. The fact that every person in this movie Tsjech, German speaks English among each other already bothered me from the very start of this movie. Other then that the story is a very cheap one, the first focus of the movie is to show how bad Heydrich was and the second focus of the story is on 2 befriended resistance fighters. Also none of the characters ever get interesting. I guess I would give this movie 7. That is subject to a few conditions. First, I like historical drama and I was very disappointed with the movie Anthropoid, which was on the same topic. Second, ther's a slight flaw in the way the movies is divided into two halves. What I liked about his that I did not like about Anthropoid? In Anthropoid, i felt little connection to the characters and in this movie, there was an emotional component, even giving some insight into how H himself might have been. I loved that they included the perspective of his wife. I love that they show her giving birth alone while he coldly works. That shows some of the personal cost that is involved in being a mindless killing machine. When the movie transitions form the Heinrich family to the Czech resistance, I love the cinematography, but i would have liked a tiny bit of context. If you know the story, you figure it out one enough, but if you don't know, its disorienting. Another reviewer here complained about the lack of moral context, that is, why these characters fought to hard to do this and what did they achieve. Its true that that is understated, but I like it. They mention it in passing as they debate shutting down the operation. And its implied in the sadness of the end. It was a real sacrifice. It didn't stop the war and it led to retaliations and suffering. The benefits were not discussed, but as they suggested, it showed the world that there was resistance, that the Nazis were not invincible. Where did they get all of these props. Whole City of Extras. Having been to "back in the day" still did not look like this s to , Czechoslovakia used to make some of the best Chrystal Glassware cut crystal glasses , that I still have. By having all of these authentic props this added lots of credibility to the movie. During the being there were only the early Panzers tanks this movie had those. Asymmetric Warfare Guerrilla Warfare always has repercussions as the U. Office of Strategic Services O. Never could understand why anybody would kill themselves instead of taking out as many Enemy as possible, until shot and killed. Killing as many Enemy while saving the last bullet for yourself sends the Enemy a different kind of message. For quite a while Operatives have been trained to shoot themselves in the left or right eye, not the temple of the head not percent assured death. The assassination in Prague in of Reinhardt Heydrich - 'protector' of and Moravia and one of the planners of the 'final solution' - was one of the most spectacular events of WWII. Although it did not change dramatically the fate of the war, it had a strong impact on the moral of both the German as well as the Czech and other nations fighting on the allies side, proving that the Nazi occupiers were not immortal and that punishment was to be inflicted on the heads of their regime. It also led to savage reprisals that destroyed any hope of cooperation between the German and the occupied Czech areas. A few weeks ago I have seen 'The Zookeeper's Wife' which figured as central character the wife of a Polish Resistance hero who helped him in saving the lives of hundreds of Jews in occupied Poland. The first half of 'The Man with the Iron Heart' had the chance to develop as a ' Planner Wife' with a description of the biography and ascension to power of Reinhardt Heydrich, from an immoral officer in the German navy to the highest ranks of the SS under the influence of his wife. We are used to think positively about love stories, and this is a love story of a different kind, the one between two mean people, united by an ideology of hate, deeply corrupt despite the cultural polish of their education and hobbies. This part of the story and the film is supported by the splendid actor work of Rosamund Pike, with Jason Clarke also giving a convincing performance as the hateful and hated ReichProtektor. I liked less the 'punk' version of Himmler created by Stephen Graham, it was supposed to be sarcastic, but hard to laugh about such an horrific historic character. Over all this part of the film is the best in my opinion, and maybe would have deserved to be developed more. The authors of the script however decided to cut the action in the middle and focus in the second part on the resistance fighters who prepared and executed the assassination, the consequences of their deeds and their fatal fate. It was not bad, but closer to the beaten paths. Events of WWII like this one seem to continue to be a source of inspiration for film makers - best proof is that 'The Man with the Iron Heart' is released less than one year away from 'Anthropoid'. Each brings a different perspective, and some of them succeed in creating solid stories, with heroes we care about sympathize or hate. It's the case of this film as well, a film that I recommend. An error has occured. Please try again. For Movie Night. Share this page:. Clear your history. It is not to be confused with 4H or H4. French novel by Laurent Binet. Main article: HHhH film. Le Monde. Retrieved 17 October Le Temps. The Millions. Retrieved 1 May Solid performances all round Jason Clarke is excellent! Their brilliant movie told from the perspective of the Czech Assasins. Looking for some great streaming picks? Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. 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It's one of the best historical novels I've ever come across. Most highly recommended. Home 1 Books 2. Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. Overview " HHhH blew me away He is the author of La Vie professionnelle de Laurent B. Related Searches. Charming Billy. Volume 71, Market Cap Estimated return represents the projected annual return you might expect after purchasing shares in the company and holding them over the default time horizon of 5 years, based on the EPS growth rate that we have projected. Research that delivers an independent perspective, consistent methodology and actionable insight. Press Releases. PR Newswire. Advertise With Us. All rights reserved. Data Disclaimer Help Suggestions. Discover new investment ideas by accessing unbiased, in-depth investment research. Laurent Binet has used an unique style to tell this story. You almost feel that Binet is sitting right across you and telling you about the events that took place. Or more precisely, he takes you to that particular place and then describes that event while it is in motion. In short, the book is so meta! A non-fiction book, in case you might forget about that. And he frequently denies something he might have said in the previous chapter in the next one. So, an unreliable narrator in a history book! There are chapters in the whole book. In a total of odd pages. Why, you ask? Because this is how some of his chapters look like. Chapter So, to cut a long story short, they jumped. Fin du chapitre. True, some might not like the style in which this book is written. But this is much more than just a book. This is an homage to the heroes who are almost unknown outside their own countries. Read about them. View all 21 comments. Nov 04, Agnieszka rated it it was amazing Shelves: ebook , reviewed , biography-memoirs-letters , , favorites. While I knew most of these facts, oddly, the names of assassins were alien to me. Secondly, HHhH is a novel about writing a novel, about the tribulations of the writer chasing his youthful dream when he first heard about the attack on the Butcher of Prague. It's about collecting materials, visiting sites, picking up memorabilia, anecdotes, digging in archives and libraries, about people he met in the course of that search. This kind of narrative, that jumping from to the present day to describe the personal struggles with still expanding material some readers found as it biggest weakness, the kind of crack, the author's attempt to establish himself as an equal protagonist of described events. But I do not think so. I thought it was brilliant. Thanks to it the novel gained more personal, intimate character. And a new perspective. Binet did not write a history textbook, right? When he describes appeasement policy and The , cowardice of the French minister Daladier or lack of moral backbone and blindness of Chamberlain, when he calls them vile we do feel his anger and contempt. It is hard to blame him for that, right? Was turning a blind eye to subsequent requests of Hitler, sacrificing another countries the Anschluss of Austria, , the establishment of the province of with puppet government , leaving the Czech and then Polish to themselves supposed to save the world from the next conflict? Let the history prove who was right and who was wrong, judge the guilty but he, the author, has the last word. He is neither historian nor diplomat and while trying to remain faithful to historic events he allows himself to be snarky. And unsure. And in awe. To me strength and innovation of that novel lies just in its structure and the duality of the narrative. Two complementary and interrelated, parallel threads: record of historical facts mixed with author's reflections on writing historical book. And it perfectly worked here. Not only brought to life people and places but also allowed Binet to show his admiration, feel the compassion, yell out his wrath. And save all these brave people from oblivion. It went more or less like that: TD — You, Poles, probably despise us a bit? It is certainly the heroism! TD - But what is the claim to fame? Heydrich traveled in an unarmoured, open-top vehicle so it was easier to hit him. Msz - But you got him! TD - That's an overstatement. He drove without any escort and the route was not guarded by any patrols. MSz - But he did not survive! TD - Just because he himself eased that task. As the first assassin tried to shoot him, Heydrich instead of running gave the order to stop the car. MSz - But still you killed him. TD - But it is not so certain, the gun of the first assassin misfired and the second one had to throw grenade toward the car. MSz - Well, and thanks to it you slew the right hand of Hitler. Heydrich did not even defend himself. He jumped out of the car and wanted to shoot but it turned out that in his gun was not the magazine. MSz - But you managed to kill him!!! TD - Why, no! He died a week later in hospital. From sepsis. I love that anecdote because it speaks something not only about our neighbors but also about Polish. When we are whole pathos and ethos Czechs love absurd and dark humour. And nation which can laugh at themselves will never lose. View all 37 comments. Whatever everybody — the author, all the critics, and every last review says, this is not a novel. But Mr Binet persuaded the entire universe to go along with his penguin impersonation. Several pages later he tells us he finally did get it. The book is extremely well researched. I get the impression the author has utilized everything currently known about Heydrich and the attack … [LB discusses this novel for a page, pointing out some stuff Chacko made up completely e. A trickster. Well…a novelist, basically. My story has as many holes in it as a novel. But in an ordinary novel, it is the novelist who decides where these holes should occur. View all 13 comments. One night while he was researching this book, Laurent Binet dreamt he was writing the key chapter. That same black Mercedes has a star role in the final version of the book too. It sh One night while he was researching this book, Laurent Binet dreamt he was writing the key chapter. It shows up on one page, disappears on another, re-emerges further on - but note this: it changes colour along the way from black to dark green. It must not be described as black if there's any chance that it was really green. On the one hand, Binet enjoys making the car slither through the streets of Prague like a viper. He'd like to add lots of details to his scenario: what Heydrich had for breakfast that morning, what he was thinking about as he left his home, what he said to his chauffeur as the car wound its way through the streets of the old city. He wants to leave his imaginings where they belong - in the realm of fiction. After all, he points out, who could make up the Nazis? Who could make up the 'final solution'? Nevertheless, Binet reluctantly recognises that fictionalised history succeeds better with readers than fact-based history writing. He offers us entertaining commentary on the many novels about WWII he has read, and the ones that focus on the Prague assasination attempt in particular. He's both fascinated and horrified by the way authors have dramatized this episode in history. His fascination encourages him to insert fictionalised passages into his own account, passages that draw the reader right in so that we immediately forget everything he's already said about preferring to stick to the facts. No, it couldn't have been like that he says, because since I wrote that, I discovered this and this, and anyway, no one can truly say how it was, any attempt to guess just becomes artificial. So why doesn't he delete such passages, you might ask? If he feels it sounds artificial or if he's found new information, surely he should rewrite the scene? He skillfully drives his narrative towards a satisfactory conclusion, but he insists on taking us on a huge detour along the way, a detour that includes the history of everything related to his journey, and the many cul-de-sacs he encountered along the way. View all 35 comments. Binet's book however frustrated me. The constant insertion of the author into the text and his continuous use of the word "I" was incredibly distracting. Who was this book about precisely, the author or Heydrich? The purported topic, Heydrich was interesting, the author's pathos? Not so much. His short chapter format consisting of chapters, some of which were only a few sentences long, resulted in a cho I am addicted to reading about the history of WWII and I really wanted to like this book. His short chapter format consisting of chapters, some of which were only a few sentences long, resulted in a choppy, stilted flow. His constant debunking of historical novels, and their fictionalized aspects, gets a bit tired, but I found his statement that, "I am struck all the same by the fact that, in every case, fiction wins out over history," provocative. But I also was then, confused by his many discussions of Hollywood movies about the era and his continuous insertion of fictionalized vignettes that he explained were to serve as examples of how he wasn't fictionalizing. One senses he is really fascinated with historical fictionalized accounts but thinks he is doing something far superior. I think he may not have achieved this goal. He is an interesting, intelligent man, and this should have been a better book. View all 26 comments. Binet mingles his own anxieties about composing his novel and the impossible task of being authentic to history, although the simple derring-do of the Czechs ends up providing the narrative momentum. View all 8 comments. So, what is this exactly? At this point in his life, it is still possible to mock him without risking death. But it is during this delicate period of childhood that one learns resentment. The author, as character, is obsessed, inter alia, with the accuracy of the smallest detail. And so it reads as history. Yet, the historian here does not hide his rooting interest. Each character, not just Heydrich, is checked off: good guy, bad guy, good guy, bad guy. There is less said about the two would-be assassins, certainly not because the author likes them less than Heydrich; rather because there is just less written or known about them. And the author means to be precise. If this were a novel, he says, he could imagine scenes and conversations. But sometimes one certain anecdote serves well as a counterpoise to the much more copious depravity. Could you possibly pay it for me? Good guys. The men in black spread out like spiders. Bad guys. So, after all, does it matter if this is history or fiction or some hybrid historical fiction? Maybe even Tennozan by George Feifer. Two stools down, she leans towards the bartender and says: Gin. Three letters, and she still manages an accent. What happened is that I read something brilliant, no matter the genre. We learn above all that Truth matters. There are no page numbers in my edition of this book. But the chapters are numbered. I think you should read all of chapter So, to make a long story short, they jumped. View all 11 comments. Jan Book Club Read. I love historical fiction but now and again I like to read a book like this which is so thorough in its historical facts that I am not actually having to check did that actually happen, is it fact or fiction. So for me that was a great book. I had never heard of the horrifying happenings in the town called Lidice and while I had read a lot of books on the Holocaust I had never read about this and it really made me so sad that a town was wiped out so brutally in the name of a Butcher. While reading this book you become aware of the authors obsession with the story. What must it have took for two men to put themselves in this position and to know what would face them. I think Binet captures this time and events in history very well. The book is marketed as a novel and much of it has a novelistic style, even though it is dealing with historic figures and events, The author is obsessively concerned with the challenges of fictionalising a real life narrative and constantly writes about his anguish over whether he should or should not invent situations or dialogue to enhance the story. Throughout the first half of the novel I really wanted him to stop this distracting practice of analyzing his thoughts but I soon got used to his style of writing and his thoughts and while I found that it a little distracting in the first half of the novel it did slightly lighten what could have been a very heavy novel. I also think that the author felt that his personal telling of this anguish with writing the story would appeal to people who might not perhaps read the book otherwise. Just a thought. It certainly does not take away from the story as the end of this book really will stay with you for a very long time. This is a book which I would recommend to readers who have an interest in history and World War Two, and want to learn more about Operation Anthropoid and Reinhard Heydrich. View all 7 comments. Jan 26, Elaine rated it it was amazing Shelves: First, I wrestled with a considerable amount of guilt for reading this in English. I could have read this in French, but it would have been much longer and harder. I know enough about translation to be uncertain of how closely what I read resembled the original. But in the end, it was better to have read this than to have missed this because of my own stupid pride about works in translation. This sort of personal interjection is actually rather influenced by the style of the book. Second, the i First, I wrestled with a considerable amount of guilt for reading this in English. Second, the interplay between first person narrative about writing this book and Binet's commenting about what he has written with the historical story takes some getting used to. I found the beginning disjointed and perhaps overly intellectualized. In the end, though, I found the commentary intensely thought provoking especially the explicit dialogue with books I have read,e. And the story is unmeasurably compelling, once you and Binet and the book give in to the flow of history and narrative and heroism. I have read countless books about the Holocaust and WWII, but Binet's succint prose -- whose disarming directness is all the better at conveying tragedy -- brings some of the horrors freshly home. The main episode he recounts -- the amazingly heroic assasination of Reinhard Heydrich and the aftermath, both good and bad -- was relatively new to me. And there is something healing and redemptive about reading about such human bravery and goodness in the face of utter evil. Especially, as Binet is at pains to recount, the heroism of the countless people who helped the Czech Resistance at ultimate cost to themselves. In the final chapters, Binet lets go of his post-modern self-consciousness and gives in to the force of the story he's telling and the characters in spite of himself that he's created, and the result is a moving and worthy tribute to the men and women he says he's trying to thank with this book. For me, ordinary people like Aunt Moravec, real people, who chose to do the right thing day in and day out at immesurable personal cost and who died with honor fighting against evil, are what allow us to go on believing in humanity. Binet, with his post-modern hang ups and reservations, gives us a particularly honest and relatable entree into that world. Compelling and worth reading. View 2 comments. I am struggling to think of anything new to say about this much discussed book, so perhaps I should just recommend reading it, as it speaks for itself. The book is a mixture of historical novel and self-analysis. The core story is the story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in There are three strands, the most interesting being the one in which Binet describes his own mistrust of historical fiction and his dislike of authorial invention - at times he interrupts his own acc I am struggling to think of anything new to say about this much discussed book, so perhaps I should just recommend reading it, as it speaks for itself. There are three strands, the most interesting being the one in which Binet describes his own mistrust of historical fiction and his dislike of authorial invention - at times he interrupts his own account with questions that arise from it and discussions of the decisions he took while writing it. The largest part perhaps because it is the best documented by reliable historical accounts is the story of the rise of Heydrich and his pivotal role in many Nazi atrocities, and the third tells the story of the resistance agents who carried out the assassination and their final stand in a Prague church. View 1 comment. Shelves: lit , translation. I don't think I'm going to keep it. HHhH is two narratives in one, a piece of creative non-fiction telling the story of Operation Anthropoid - the plot to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - alongside which runs the journal of the Czech professor obsessed with commemorating the brave men involved in as accurate way as possible and his journey of self-realisation. By running these two stories parallel to each other Binet dissects the tools of literature, comments on the nature of non-fiction and removes any sense of sensationalism that other authors might inadvertently resort to. This is not your typical wartime espionage novel and yet it keeps you on edge with just as much skill as your Le Carre's and Deighton's; thanks to the professors commentary you are never sure whether the wool is being pulled over your eyes from one scene to the next, you constantly question the nature of the narrative and why it is being presented in such a way, as I mentioned only slightly tongue-in-cheek to a friend whilst reading it you partially suspect that before the denouement you will discover that WWII didn't even happen, that Hitler was a fiction and our good narrator has been deceiving us all along. That takes a very special skill indeed. And yet for all the literary pleasure this book provided and all the enjoyment at the audacity of the author and all the fascinating facts that I have since verified were facts discovered regarding that most evil period of modern history and the praise from such favourite authors of mine as Martin Amis and Bret Easton Ellis I struggled to finish the novel, I found it hard going at times for no discernible reason apart from it being the desired effect. And there are no page numbers. I can't even begin to make sense of why the lack of page numbers was so disconcerting to me as a reader. Just another way in which Binet highlights the tools of fiction I must assume. It takes a certain type of reader to revel more in the struggle of a writer than in the real life daring deeds of heroic men but if you are one of those readers you are in for a real treat with this gripping and intense historical novel. View all 12 comments. HHhH , what kind of title is that for a book? Two men, Jan Kubis and Jozef Gabcik, underground parachutists no pun intended , were recruited and trained in England after which they were dropped into occupied Czechoslovakia. Five months later they attacked and injured Heydrich, who died of those injuries eight days later. He does not define it; instead, the whole novel demonstrates what that is. What follows below are only a very few examples of what must amount to hundreds of examples. I can imagine this book inspiring dissertations on truth in novels. Not that I would want to write such a dissertation life is too short or actually read one, but the materials are clearly here. In the beginning of this story we hear much more about the narrator than about the story he purports to tell. As he learns more and more about his subject, the story he means to tell takes stronger hold of him and takes up more space on the page. Yet the narrator never disappears. He repeatedly interrupts his narrative to express his emotions about the information he has found. After this remark, he returns to his story. There are other similar outbursts showing strong hatred for his Nazi subjects and, later on, of love and admiration for the brave assassins. To make him drink tea, when it might turn out that he liked only coffee. To make him put on two coats, when perhaps he had only one. To make him take the bus, when he could have taken the train. To decide that he left in the evening, rather than the morning. He frequently addresses the problems that come about when he tries to tell a story and does not have all the details. And he adds that no matter how well he fills in his story, holes in the narrative will always remain. In addition, he brings up other novels e. And the issue about which the narrator questions himself? I know that. The Man with the Iron Heart () - IMDb

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But it is during this delicate period of childhood that one learns resentment. The author, as character, is obsessed, inter alia, with the accuracy of the smallest detail. And so it reads as history. Yet, the historian here does not hide his rooting interest. Each character, not just Heydrich, is checked off: good guy, bad guy, good guy, bad guy. There is less said about the two would-be assassins, certainly not because the author likes them less than Heydrich; rather because there is just less written or known about them. And the author means to be precise. If this were a novel, he says, he could imagine scenes and conversations. But sometimes one certain anecdote serves well as a counterpoise to the much more copious depravity. Could you possibly pay it for me? Good guys. The men in black spread out like spiders. Bad guys. So, after all, does it matter if this is history or fiction or some hybrid historical fiction? Maybe even Tennozan by George Feifer. Two stools down, she leans towards the bartender and says: Gin. Three letters, and she still manages an accent. What happened is that I read something brilliant, no matter the genre. We learn above all that Truth matters. There are no page numbers in my edition of this book. But the chapters are numbered. I think you should read all of chapter So, to make a long story short, they jumped. View all 11 comments. Jan Book Club Read. I love historical fiction but now and again I like to read a book like this which is so thorough in its historical facts that I am not actually having to check did that actually happen, is it fact or fiction. So for me that was a great book. I had never heard of the horrifying happenings in the town called Lidice and while I had read a lot of books on the Holocaust I had never read about this and it really made me so sad that a town was wiped out so brutally in the name of a Butcher. While reading this book you become aware of the authors obsession with the story. What must it have took for two men to put themselves in this position and to know what would face them. I think Binet captures this time and events in history very well. The book is marketed as a novel and much of it has a novelistic style, even though it is dealing with historic figures and events, The author is obsessively concerned with the challenges of fictionalising a real life narrative and constantly writes about his anguish over whether he should or should not invent situations or dialogue to enhance the story. Throughout the first half of the novel I really wanted him to stop this distracting practice of analyzing his thoughts but I soon got used to his style of writing and his thoughts and while I found that it a little distracting in the first half of the novel it did slightly lighten what could have been a very heavy novel. I also think that the author felt that his personal telling of this anguish with writing the story would appeal to people who might not perhaps read the book otherwise. Just a thought. It certainly does not take away from the story as the end of this book really will stay with you for a very long time. This is a book which I would recommend to readers who have an interest in history and World War Two, and want to learn more about Operation Anthropoid and Reinhard Heydrich. View all 7 comments. Jan 26, Elaine rated it it was amazing Shelves: First, I wrestled with a considerable amount of guilt for reading this in English. I could have read this in French, but it would have been much longer and harder. I know enough about translation to be uncertain of how closely what I read resembled the original. But in the end, it was better to have read this than to have missed this because of my own stupid pride about works in translation. This sort of personal interjection is actually rather influenced by the style of the book. Second, the i First, I wrestled with a considerable amount of guilt for reading this in English. Second, the interplay between first person narrative about writing this book and Binet's commenting about what he has written with the historical story takes some getting used to. I found the beginning disjointed and perhaps overly intellectualized. In the end, though, I found the commentary intensely thought provoking especially the explicit dialogue with books I have read,e. And the story is unmeasurably compelling, once you and Binet and the book give in to the flow of history and narrative and heroism. I have read countless books about the Holocaust and WWII, but Binet's succint prose -- whose disarming directness is all the better at conveying tragedy -- brings some of the horrors freshly home. The main episode he recounts -- the amazingly heroic assasination of Reinhard Heydrich and the aftermath, both good and bad -- was relatively new to me. And there is something healing and redemptive about reading about such human bravery and goodness in the face of utter evil. Especially, as Binet is at pains to recount, the heroism of the countless people who helped the Czech Resistance at ultimate cost to themselves. In the final chapters, Binet lets go of his post-modern self-consciousness and gives in to the force of the story he's telling and the characters in spite of himself that he's created, and the result is a moving and worthy tribute to the men and women he says he's trying to thank with this book. For me, ordinary people like Aunt Moravec, real people, who chose to do the right thing day in and day out at immesurable personal cost and who died with honor fighting against evil, are what allow us to go on believing in humanity. Binet, with his post-modern hang ups and reservations, gives us a particularly honest and relatable entree into that world. Compelling and worth reading. View 2 comments. I am struggling to think of anything new to say about this much discussed book, so perhaps I should just recommend reading it, as it speaks for itself. The book is a mixture of historical novel and self-analysis. The core story is the story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in There are three strands, the most interesting being the one in which Binet describes his own mistrust of historical fiction and his dislike of authorial invention - at times he interrupts his own acc I am struggling to think of anything new to say about this much discussed book, so perhaps I should just recommend reading it, as it speaks for itself. There are three strands, the most interesting being the one in which Binet describes his own mistrust of historical fiction and his dislike of authorial invention - at times he interrupts his own account with questions that arise from it and discussions of the decisions he took while writing it. The largest part perhaps because it is the best documented by reliable historical accounts is the story of the rise of Heydrich and his pivotal role in many Nazi atrocities, and the third tells the story of the resistance agents who carried out the assassination and their final stand in a Prague church. View 1 comment. Shelves: lit , translation. I don't think I'm going to keep it. HHhH is two narratives in one, a piece of creative non-fiction telling the story of Operation Anthropoid - the plot to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - alongside which runs the journal of the Czech professor obsessed with commemorating the brave men involved in as accurate way as possible and his journey of self-realisation. By running these two stories parallel to each other Binet dissects the tools of literature, comments on the nature of non-fiction and removes any sense of sensationalism that other authors might inadvertently resort to. This is not your typical wartime espionage novel and yet it keeps you on edge with just as much skill as your Le Carre's and Deighton's; thanks to the professors commentary you are never sure whether the wool is being pulled over your eyes from one scene to the next, you constantly question the nature of the narrative and why it is being presented in such a way, as I mentioned only slightly tongue-in-cheek to a friend whilst reading it you partially suspect that before the denouement you will discover that WWII didn't even happen, that Hitler was a fiction and our good narrator has been deceiving us all along. That takes a very special skill indeed. And yet for all the literary pleasure this book provided and all the enjoyment at the audacity of the author and all the fascinating facts that I have since verified were facts discovered regarding that most evil period of modern history and the praise from such favourite authors of mine as Martin Amis and Bret Easton Ellis I struggled to finish the novel, I found it hard going at times for no discernible reason apart from it being the desired effect. And there are no page numbers. I can't even begin to make sense of why the lack of page numbers was so disconcerting to me as a reader. Just another way in which Binet highlights the tools of fiction I must assume. It takes a certain type of reader to revel more in the struggle of a writer than in the real life daring deeds of heroic men but if you are one of those readers you are in for a real treat with this gripping and intense historical novel. View all 12 comments. HHhH , what kind of title is that for a book? Two men, Jan Kubis and Jozef Gabcik, underground parachutists no pun intended , were recruited and trained in England after which they were dropped into occupied Czechoslovakia. Five months later they attacked and injured Heydrich, who died of those injuries eight days later. He does not define it; instead, the whole novel demonstrates what that is. What follows below are only a very few examples of what must amount to hundreds of examples. I can imagine this book inspiring dissertations on truth in novels. Not that I would want to write such a dissertation life is too short or actually read one, but the materials are clearly here. In the beginning of this story we hear much more about the narrator than about the story he purports to tell. As he learns more and more about his subject, the story he means to tell takes stronger hold of him and takes up more space on the page. Yet the narrator never disappears. He repeatedly interrupts his narrative to express his emotions about the information he has found. After this remark, he returns to his story. There are other similar outbursts showing strong hatred for his Nazi subjects and, later on, of love and admiration for the brave assassins. To make him drink tea, when it might turn out that he liked only coffee. To make him put on two coats, when perhaps he had only one. To make him take the bus, when he could have taken the train. To decide that he left in the evening, rather than the morning. He frequently addresses the problems that come about when he tries to tell a story and does not have all the details. And he adds that no matter how well he fills in his story, holes in the narrative will always remain. In addition, he brings up other novels e. And the issue about which the narrator questions himself? I know that. I must be anal-retentive. No fault of the narrator is too small to point out and criticize. This book is replete with such discussion. I cannot do justice to the brilliance of this novel, of the many different ways Binet shows the truth about the horror by reminding us how it all took place while also telling us how a writer of such stories deals with all the problems of telling that story. There are many, many such passages where the narrator insists he needs to get the facts exactly right. He frequently disparages himself and his book when as he confesses that he made this or that up. And the sub- or not actually so sub- text here is that readers demand history become narrative, even though too often facts must be sifted and shifted , bent, and completely imagined in order to create effective narrative. Our desire to hear our history as story is overwhelming. At the same time, the tone of his disparagement is often as playful as it is in the passages I quoted above. Instead, it brings them and him to a living breathing life. It is demanding much that we do that. I ended up loving this book. Description: We are in Prague, in This is Operation Anthropoid: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent by London plan to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich—head of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangerous man in the Third Reich'. All the characters in HHhH existed then or still exist now. But alongside the nerve-shredding story of the preparations for the attack runs another story: when you are writing about real people, how do you resist the temptation to make things up? It is improbably entertaining and electrifyingly modern. It is a moving, tense, and shattering work of fiction. Lying alone on a little iron bed, did he hear, from outside, beyond the shutters of a darkened apartment, the unmistakable creaking of the Prague tramways? This is the Kepler b of historical fiction - same yet significantly, wildly different in style to anything I have come across before. That, right there, will make HHhH a marmite book and I love this particular metafictional spread. Fully recommended. Lina and Reinhard Heydrich and their son Klaus in The rodent Himmler Gobineau - father of modern racial demography. Since the late 20th century, his works are considered early examples of scientific racism. View all 4 comments. This was a very differently written type of historical fiction; a stream of consciousness novel where a narrator who happens to be writing a book about the assassination of Heydrich lets the reader in on all his thought processes, feelings, and personal life. In the beginning I found this fascinating as the narrator imparts many little known facts at least by me of Heydrich's early life and marriage, the forming of the Nazi party, Hitler, the Night of Long Knives and the forming of his securit This was a very differently written type of historical fiction; a stream of consciousness novel where a narrator who happens to be writing a book about the assassination of Heydrich lets the reader in on all his thought processes, feelings, and personal life. In the beginning I found this fascinating as the narrator imparts many little known facts at least by me of Heydrich's early life and marriage, the forming of the Nazi party, Hitler, the Night of Long Knives and the forming of his security system. By the end of the book, however, I just found the narrator tedious and wished he would just get on a tell the story already. This unusual novel is part autobiography, part history lesson, part adventure story, and part meditation on the absurdities of its own genre. And it manages to be engaging on each of these levels, each element reinforcing the significance of the action of the main plot, which is gripping and emotionally charged. I learned a lot about the character of the people who made up the upper echelon of the Nazi party. It's hard to believe that these were real human beings who existed, and who were allowed This unusual novel is part autobiography, part history lesson, part adventure story, and part meditation on the absurdities of its own genre. It's hard to believe that these were real human beings who existed, and who were allowed to wield such brutal power. Recommended to Eliza by: Trotalibros. Shelves: on-my-shelf , historical-fiction. I was able to approach one of the great stories -one of the thousands- that happened in the Second World War. Very different from the boy with a high-pitched voice that was called "The goat". Designated later as Reichsprotektor of Bohemia-Moravia the today , Heydrich was also proclaimed as one of the architects of the final solution and was one of those directly responsible for the Holocaust. The exiled Czech government in London watched helplessly as the Nazis controlled Czechoslovakia and murdered its people. Something had to be done. That's why in , two members of the Czech Resistance landed on parachutes near Prague with a secret mission. They were in charge to assassinate The butcher of Prague, Reinhard Heydrich. The author, French professor Laurent Binet, was so passionate about this story that he decided to write about this war heroes. But you most know this is not a traditional historical novel or a millimetric work of nonfiction. HHhH is both an historical novel and the story of writting a novel. Metafiction all the way, Laurent tells us about his problems, his thoughts, his doubts: what he felt when entering the Prague museum and seeing Heydrich's black or green Mercedes; looking at the church wall of St. Cyril and St. Methodius, a place that hide the brave Czech resistance; getting frustrated by watching films that did not portray Heydrich well and sitting down to write a story that he loved so much that it was hard to let go. It is a different experience, he's not sure of certain facts and he let us know. Because time passes and details are erased, but the Czech will never forget the heroes who resisted and died for them. The novel's singular structure has short and numbered chapters, almost episodic, without a strict chronological order. We get to know the other part of the story: dangerous and cunning Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's evil genius, who according to the book, even told someone that Hitler would lose the war. Binet gives body and thought to this man, one who was so ruthless and deadly and that it would cost us a lot to sympathize with him. There's a movie of this book I have to watch it even though it's in english or that there aren't many Czech or German actors in the cast, any excuse is good to get to know this incredible story. HHhH is an interesting writting excercise about the past and how to write about it. Rescuing brave people from oblivion is its main achievement. People that are now heroes. And it's worth reading about them. Pude acercarme a una de las grandes historias —de las miles— que sucedieron en la Segunda guerra mundial. El terror reinaba en el Protectorado. El gobierno checo en el exilio en Londres observaba con impotencia como los nazis controlaban Checoslovaquia y asesinaban a su gente. Y vale la pena conocerla. I have had my fill of books about Nazis, but this clever little title was irresistible. And thank heaven it was since this story about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich is absolutely brilliant. The author constantly offers up some stunning scene, only to tell you immediately thereafter that he has no idea if it actually occurred that way in real life — while this may be maddening to some, I enjoyed living in those moments that should have been. The parts about the assassination itself were short, sad and sort of triumphant in a better-than-nothing kind of way since millions of Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and others continued to be massacred, although in a less efficient manner. While the translation of this book from French to English was a little clunky, it only added to the ambience of the experience for me. Sort of like watching a movie in black and white, this is an ageless book written out of the time-space continuum. Highly recommended. View all 5 comments. In part this is a bit like the literary equivalent of one of those documentaries about the making of a famous film. We learn much about Heydrich and also about his two Czech assassins who were trained in the UK specifically to carry out the assassination In part this is a bit like the literary equivalent of one of those documentaries about the making of a famous film. We learn much about Heydrich and also about his two Czech assassins who were trained in the UK specifically to carry out the assassination. On the other hand, the author allows us to eavesdrop on many of his thoughts, feelings and dilemmas while writing his book. The book tightrope walks elegantly between fiction and non-fiction. At times reading like a thriller, at others like a series of short essays on the nature on literary forms and the relationship between the author and his material. Especially interesting were his revelations regarding research, how he came about his material. Now and again, Binet veers towards whimsy which perhaps undermines the gravitas of the subject but on the whole he writes fabulously well and I found this book compelling. The fact that HHhH isn't quite the book I was expecting to read is entirely the fault of the back cover. The last paragraph of the blurb reads: All the characters in HHhH existed then or still exist now. If you have the Postmodern Klaxon going off in your head, you're not alone - The fact that HHhH isn't quite the book I was expecting to read is entirely the fault of the back cover. If you have the Postmodern Klaxon going off in your head, you're not alone - it's that last sentence, isn't it? And the fact that it's on the "fiction" shelves. But Binet doesn't go all Christopher Priest on us which I can only assume means that the book I really wanted to be reading was The Separation - and when it came down to it, I didn't actually mind that at all. What he does instead of bludgeoning you about the skull with postmodernism is a really interesting read in its own right. Let's have a bit of context here. For the record, they were excellent and ding ding ding: Scottish ladyplaywrights! I told you they existed , but none of them were trying to do what Laurent Binet is trying to do, and I appreciate them all the more for having his book stuck in the middle of them. It's about the men themselves, or what Binet has been able to find out about them. It's about Heydrich's background - his political rise, his wife, the decisions he made while in power - and it's about how Czechoslovakia fared in the Second World War. I've not studied the Second World War for nearly a decade, and I seem to recall the syllabus skipped fairly speedily from "Lebensraum was a thing" to "okay let's talk about Poland". I grew up in the south of England. What can I say, Neville Chamberlain got a relatively easy ride. So it was interesting to me to hear Czech and Slovakian politics at the time, to find out what actually happened, and what it was like for people. So far, so historical. So unassailable. But the way you get people - by whom I mean me - to really think about things that happened in the past, is to stick them in the mindset of the people involved, to get them to feel what those people must have felt. In short, to turn those people into characters, and attribute feelings to them. But at the same time, he's really delighted about not getting to be happy about it. The man has done so much research, and he talks you through the research, and where he was when he did it, and how he felt when he found things out, and how long it took him to write and rewrite various chapters. It's as if, by showing you his own pencil marks as an author, he's trying to make what he's talking about seem more true. No, that's not right. I've just realised. Binet puts a piece of himself in HHhH , and it's not to make the whole thing seem more true. It's a mark of respect. A couple of years ago, I wrote a Masters dissertation on the legal prohibition of torture in Europe, and it took me several years not to have regular nightmares about it. Look, everyone! Fiona's oversharing on the internet again! Long Term. Previous Close 8. Volume 71, Market Cap Estimated return represents the projected annual return you might expect after purchasing shares in the company and holding them over the default time horizon of 5 years, based on the EPS growth rate that we have projected. Research that delivers an independent perspective, consistent methodology and actionable insight. Press Releases. PR Newswire. Advertise With Us. All rights reserved. As they trade tales of his famous humor, immense charm, and consuming sorrow, a complex portrait emerges View Product. Notes on Fame. 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