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HHhH by Laurent Binet

5.0

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I was worried that there would be a twist at the end. But no, the tone is consistent throughout. I didn't know a gread deal of this history. I don't know if I had ever heard of the Nazi massacre/razing of Lidice, Czeckoslovakia. The history is of terrible events. I decided not to read this before sleeping (no Nazis before bed). But the writer keeps a light hand on the material and his drive to imagine it all without letting imagination overwhelm what can be known of the actual events.