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Laurent binet goodreads6/20/2023 The whole: HHhH (affiliate links: Amazon, B&N, Book Depository) is the dearest book about Nazi officers that ever I have read, though admittedly it did not face much competition. The end (not spoilers, just history): Some brave people died, and you wish they had not. The beginning: The narrator’s father tells him a story about a Czech and a Slovak who killed Himmler’s right-hand man, Reinhard Heydrich. But it looks disingenuous and denies the emotional oomf the book has. The reason for that is you can’t put “dear sweet book” into the same sentence with “assassination of a Nazi spymaster”. I also did not expect that in the eventuality of my loving it, I would have any difficulty in describing to other people why I loved it so much. And also because I picked HHhH to win the Tournament of Books (it did not), and I felt an obligation to it for that reason. I read HHhH because I got a copy for free from a coworker and finished my other book on the subway. Just understand that it is a list of two things I am unfond of. Never mind about the grammar of that list. I am going to highly recommend it in spite of: It is awfully good, and I am going to recommend it to you very highly.
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