| Authors: |
Binet, Laurent
Taylor, Sam, 1970-
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Book |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Czechoslovakia -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Fiction.
French fiction -- Translations into English.
Historical fiction.
Heydrich, Reinhard,1904-1942 -- Assassination -- Fiction.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. |
| Description: |
327 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780374169916 (alk. paper) 0374169918 (alk. paper) |
| Notes: |
Originally published in 2009 by Editions Grasset et Fasquelle, France. |
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Just as you try to classify it, Binet ducks by Andrew Fitch |
| Just as you try to classify it, Binet ducks and sends you off on a tangential line of thought you couldn't have dreamed up. Historical, action novel? No, too deconstructed for that. The psychology of the architect of the Holocaust? No, it's about his killers. Identifying with the soul of Prague? Well, if we could ever learn the lessons of history... Don't try, just be captivated. |
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| Summary: |
Imagines the story of two Czechoslovakian partisans responsible for assassinating the "Butcher of Prague" Reinhard Heydrich, traces their escape from the Nazis and recruitment by the British secret service. |