![]() ![]() The entire book is a dialogue between writer and work – an experiment in form – but Binet pulls it off remarkably well. You might argue that the real subject is not Heydrich’s assassination, but Binet’s efforts to write about Heydrich’s assassination. It’s also an intriguing meditation on the act of writing itself. ![]() This is a gripping and extremely vivid piece of history, which brings to life one of the less familiar episodes in the Second World War, and draws attention to two men who undertook their task with humbling bravery. But it was persuasively and persistently recommended to me by someone whose opinion I respect a great deal and so I decided to give it a whirl. ![]() It is certainly not the kind of book I would pick out for myself. The story of the assassination in Prague of Reinhard Heydrich, architect of the Final Solution and one of the most terrifying figures in the Third Reich, is not the natural successor to Dorothy Dunnett’s Gemini. By any standards, this was an unusual choice for me. ![]()
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