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Blitzed : Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler (2017, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-101328663795
ISBN-139781328663795
eBay Product ID (ePID)227744243
Product Key Features
Book TitleBlitzed : Drugs in the Third Reich
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
TopicEurope / Germany, Military / World War II, Presidents & Heads of State, Psychopathology / Addiction
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, Psychology, History
AuthorNorman Ohler
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight17.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-056346
Reviews"Ohler's astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the Second World War . .. Blitzed looks set to reframe the way certain aspects of the Third Reich will be viewed in the future." -- Guardian " Blitzed tells the remarkable story of how Nazi Germany slid towards junkie-state status. It is an energetic ... account of an accelerating, modernizing society, an ambitious pharmaceuticals industry, a military machine that was looking for ways to create an unbeatable soldier, and a dictator who couldn't function without fixes from his quack ... It has an uncanny ability to disturb." -- Times (UK) "A huge contribution ... Remarkable." --Antony Beevor, BBC 4 Today "The picture [Ohler] paints is both a powerful and an extreme one ... Gripping reading." -- Times Literary Supplement "A fascinating, most extraordinary revelation." -- BBC World News " Blitzed tells a deliriously druggy tale of the Third Reich." -- Paris Review "Absorbing ... Makes the convincing argument that the Nazis' use of chemical stimulants ... played a crucial role in the successes, and failures, of the Third Reich." -- Esquire, "Ohler's astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the Second World War . .. Blitzed looks set to reframe the way certain aspects of the Third Reich will be viewed in the future." -- Guardian " Blitzed tells the remarkable story of how Nazi Germany slid towards junkie-state status. It is an energetic ... account of an accelerating, modernizing society, an ambitious pharmaceuticals industry, a military machine that was looking for ways to create an unbeatable soldier, and a dictator who couldn't function without fixes from his quack ... It has an uncanny ability to disturb." -- Times (UK) "A huge contribution ... Remarkable." --Antony Beevor, BBC 4 Today "The picture [Ohler] paints is both a powerful and an extreme one ... Gripping reading." -- Times Literary Supplement "A fascinating, most extraordinary revelation." -- BBC World News " Blitzed tells a deliriously druggy tale of the Third Reich." -- Paris Review "Absorbing ... Makes the convincing argument that the Nazis' use of chemical stimulants ... played a crucial role in the successes, and failures, of the Third Reich." -- Esquire "An audacious, compelling read." -- Stern (Germany) "Bursting with interesting facts." -- Vice "Very good and extremely interesting -- a serious piece of scholarship very well-researched ... There have, of course, been other books that already argued that Hitler was effectively a drug addict at the hands of Dr Morell's pills and injections of amphetamines and other drugs. But Ohler takes the argument, to my mind, further and more convincingly." -- Ian Kershaw, author of To Hell and Back and The End "An intense chronicle of 'systematic drug abuse' in Nazi Germany... Written with dramatic flair, this book adds significantly to our understanding of the Third Reich." -- KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW "[Ohler's account] makes us look at this densely studied period rather differently." -- NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS [Ohler] brings storytelling vigor to an unexplored corner of Hitlerology... Mordant and casual even in translation, it's easy to mainline (with a pinch of salt mixed in)." -- VULTURE "Ohler offers a compelling explanation for Hitler's erratic behavior in the final years of the war, and how the biomedical landscape of the time affected the way history unfolded." -- THE JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL "A fast, compelling read." -- NYLON "A compelling piece of serious scholarship that offers a comprehensive view of drugs in Nazi Germany that professional historians seem to have missed." -- UNDER THE RADAR (MILITARY.COM) "In Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich , Norman Ohler accomplished a feat that many historians desire, but never quite achieve... the author manages to cover new ground and shed a bright light on a previously dark corner of 20th century history." -- THE FIX, "Ohler's astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the Second World War . .. Blitzed looks set to reframe the way certain aspects of the Third Reich will be viewed in the future." -- Guardian " Blitzed tells the remarkable story of how Nazi Germany slid towards junkie-state status. It is an energetic ... account of an accelerating, modernizing society, an ambitious pharmaceuticals industry, a military machine that was looking for ways to create an unbeatable soldier, and a dictator who couldn't function without fixes from his quack ... It has an uncanny ability to disturb." -- Times (UK) "A huge contribution ... Remarkable." --Antony Beevor, BBC 4 Today "The picture [Ohler] paints is both a powerful and an extreme one ... Gripping reading." -- Times Literary Supplement "A fascinating, most extraordinary revelation." -- BBC World News " Blitzed tells a deliriously druggy tale of the Third Reich." -- Paris Review "Absorbing ... Makes the convincing argument that the Nazis' use of chemical stimulants ... played a crucial role in the successes, and failures, of the Third Reich." -- Esquire "An audacious, compelling read." -- Stern (Germany) "Bursting with interesting facts." -- Vice "Very good and extremely interesting -- a serious piece of scholarship very well-researched ... There have, of course, been other books that already argued that Hitler was effectively a drug addict at the hands of Dr Morell's pills and injections of amphetamines and other drugs. But Ohler takes the argument, to my mind, further and more convincingly." -- Ian Kershaw, author of To Hell and Back and The End, "[Norman Ohler's] book Blitzed tells a deliriously druggy tale of the Third Reich." --THE PARIS REVIEW
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal362.29/95094309044
SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact, troops regularly took rations of a form ofcrystal meth--the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to explain certain German military victories. Drugs seeped all the way up to the Nazi high command and, especially, to Hitler himself. Over the course of the war, Hitler became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs--including a form of heroin--administered by his personal doctor. While drugs alone cannot explain the Nazis' toxic racial theories or the events of World War II, Ohler's investigation makes an overwhelming case that, if drugs are not taken into account, our understanding of the Third Reich is fundamentally incomplete. Carefully researched and rivetingly readable, Blitzed throws surprising light on a history that, until now, has remained in the shadows., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact, troops regularly took rations of a form of crystal meth--the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to explain certain German military victories. Drugs seeped all the way up to the Nazi high command and, especially, to Hitler himself. Over the course of the war, Hitler became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs--including a form of heroin--administered by his personal doctor. While drugs alone cannot explain the Nazis' toxic racial theories or the events of World War II, Ohler's investigation makes an overwhelming case that, if drugs are not taken into account, our understanding of the Third Reich is fundamentally incomplete. Carefully researched and rivetingly readable, Blitzed throws surprising light on a history that, until now, has remained in the shadows., A fast-paced, highly original history that uncovers the full extent of drug use in Nazi Germany--from Hitler's all-consuming reliance on a slew of substances, to the drugs that permeated the regime and played an integral role in Germany's military performance and ultimate downfall in World War II
LC Classification NumberHV5840.G3O3513 2017
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