Mass Market Paperback, by Le Livre de Poche
Page count: 443
Prague, 1942, opération « Anthropoïde » : deux parachutistes tchèques sont chargés par Londres d'assassiner Reinhard Heydrich, le chef de la Gestapo et des services secrets nazis, le planificateur de la Solution finale, le « bourreau de Prague ». Heydrich, le bras droit d'Himmler. Chez les SS, on dit de lui : « HHhH ». Himmlers Hirn heiβt Heydrich – le cerveau d'Himmler s'appelle Heydrich. Dans ce livre, les faits relatés comme les personnages sont authentiques. Pourtant, une autre guerre se fait jour, celle que livre la fiction romanesque à la vérité historique. L'auteur doit résister à la tentation de romancer. Il faut bien, cependant, mener l'histoire à son terme…
We are in Prague, in 1942. Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. 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'.
Heydrich works for Hitler's most powerful henchman, Heinrich Himmler, but in the SS they say 'HHhH': 'Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich'—Himmler's brain is called Heydrich.
All the characters in HHhH existed then or still exist now. All the events depicted are true. 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?
HHhH is a panorama of the Third Reich told through the life of one outstandingly brutal man, a story of unbearable heroism and loyalty, revenge and betrayal. It is improbably entertaining and electrifyingly modern. It is a moving, tense, and shattering work of fiction.
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