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Blitzed de Norman Ohler

Blitzed: Mariner Books

Autor Norman Ohler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2018

Remarcăm în Blitzed o perspectivă istorică ce modifică fundamental modul în care percepem mecanismele de putere din Al Treilea Reich. Deși suntem obișnuiți cu analizele politice sau militare clasice, Norman Ohler introduce în ecuație o variabilă adesea ignorată: influența substanțelor psihoactive asupra întregii societăți germane, de la muncitorii din fabrici până la frontul de luptă. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autorul documentează omniprezența metamfetaminelor, explicând cum succesul fulgerător al Blitzkrieg-ului din 1940 a fost susținut, în parte, de consumul sistemic de Pervitin.

Merită menționat că volumul nu se limitează la experiența soldaților, ci pătrunde în buncărul lui Hitler pentru a analiza relația toxică dintre acesta și medicul său personal, Dr. Morell. Utilizarea unor documente de arhivă rare permite o reconstrucție detaliată a cocktailurilor de stimulente și opiacee care au alterat capacitatea de judecată a conducerii naziste pe măsură ce războiul avansa. Ca alternativă la Shooting Up de Lukasz Kamienski pentru același nivel de analiză istorică, Blitzed oferă avantajul unei focalizări microscopice pe regimul nazist, transformând o cercetare academică serioasă într-o narațiune captivantă.

În contextul operei sale, Norman Ohler continuă această direcție de investigație în Tripped, unde explorează modul în care aceleași baze medicale au condus la dezvoltarea LSD-ului. Dacă în The Infiltrators autorul se concentra pe spionaj și rezistență, în Blitzed el reușește să umple o lacună istorică esențială, demonstrând că drogurile nu explică singure deznodământul războiului, dar sunt indispensabile pentru a înțelege coeziunea și ulterior colapsul regimului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781328915344
ISBN-10: 1328915344
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 46 b-w images throughout
Dimensiuni: 136 x 205 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
Colecția Mariner Books
Seria Mariner Books

Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Blitzed oricărui pasionat de istorie care caută să înțeleagă dincolo de hărțile militare. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă inedită asupra rezilienței soldaților germani și a degradării fizice a lui Hitler, totul bazat pe dovezi de arhivă riguroase. Este o lectură esențială pentru a vedea cum chimia poate influența cursul evenimentelor mondiale, oferind răspunsuri concrete despre starea de spirit a unei națiuni aflate sub influență.

Despre autor

Norman Ohler este un scriitor și jurnalist german recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a extrage povești fascinante din cercetări istorice meticuloase. Succesul internațional al volumului Blitzed l-a consacrat ca o voce importantă în reinterpretarea istoriei celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial prin prisma consumului de substanțe. Interesul său pentru intersecția dintre știință, medicină și politică este vizibil și în lucrări precum Tripped, unde investighează originile LSD, consolidându-și reputația de autor care explorează teme complexe cu o rigoare documentară de excepție.

Descriere scurtă

A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a "fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich” (Washington Post).

The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, which were consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to German soldiers.

In fact, troops were encouraged, and in some cases ordered, to take rations of a form of crystal meth—the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to account for the breakneck invasion that sealed the fall of France in 1940, as well as other German military victories. Hitler himself became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs—ultimately including Eukodal, a cousin of heroin—administered by his personal doctor.

Thoroughly researched and rivetingly readable, Blitzed throws light on a history that, until now, has remained in the shadows.

“Delightfully nuts.”—The New Yorker

Recenzii

National Bestseller  New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice   “The strengths of Ohler’s account lie not only in the rich array of rare documents he mines and the archival images he reproduces to accompany the text, but also in his character studies… Ohler effectively captures Hitler’s pathetic dependence on his doctor and the bizarre intimacy of their bond…Blitzed makes for provocative reading.” —The New York Times Book Review  “A revelatory work that considers Hitler’s career in a new light. ‘Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich’ is that rare sort of book whose remarkable insight focuses on a subject that’s been overlooked, even disregarded by historians.” —The San Francisco Chronicle   “Blitzed is a fascinating read that provides a new facet to our understanding of the Third Reich.”—Buzzfeed   “It's as breezy and darkly humorous as its title. But don't be fooled by the gallows humor of chapter names like ‘Sieg High’ and ‘High Hitler’: This is a serious and original work of scholarship that dropped jaws around Europe when it was published there last year.” —Mashable   "A juicier story would be hard to find.” —The Week   “Delightfully nuts, in a Gravity’s Rainbow kind of way.”—The New Yorker   “Transforming meticulous research into compelling prose, Ohler delves into the little-known history of drug use in Nazi Germany.”—Entertainment Weekly   “[A] fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich.”—The Washington Post   “This heavily researched nonfiction book by a German journalist reports that the drug was widely taken by soldiers, all the way up the ranks to Hitler himself, who received injections of a drug cocktail that also included an opioid.”—Newsday   “The book achieves something nearly impossible: It makes readers look at this well-trodden period in a new way and does it in a readable, inviting format. It also doesn’t preclude future scholarship by professional historians to elaborate on the role of drugs in Nazi Germany.” —Newsweek   “This is Ohler’s first nonfiction book (he’s written three novels) and the first popular book of its kind, filling a gap between specialist academic literature and sensationalist TV documentaries… The book is an impressive work of scholarship, with more than two dozen pages of footnotes and the blessing of esteemed World War Two historians… 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… Ohler’s book makes a powerful case for the centrality of drugs to the Nazi war effort.” —The New Republic   "Explosive ... Ohler describes the chemical ignition of the first assault on the Western front with a novelist's flair." — Rolling Stone   "I had thought nothing could make [Nazis] more horrifying, but that was before I encountered Blitzed. Now I know the only thing more terrifying than the Nazis are the Nazis on meth ... Blitzed is not your typical history book ... It's amazing that biographers haven't focused on the drug angle this rigorously."

Notă biografică

Norman Ohler is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed, the non-fiction book The Bohemians about resistance against Hitler in Berlin, as well as the novels Die Quotenmaschine (the world's first hypertext novel), Mitte, Stadt des Goldes (translated into English as Ponte City), as well as the historical crime novel Die Gleichung des Lebens. He was cowriter of the script for Wim Wenders's film Palermo Shooting. He lives in Berlin.

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow
'A huge contribution... remarkable' Antony Beevor, BBC RADIO 4

'Extremely interesting ... a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian Kershaw
The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all, methamphetamines, or crystal meth, used by everyone from factory workers to housewives, and crucial to troops' resilience - even partly explaining German victory in 1940.
The promiscuous use of drugs at the very highest levels also impaired and confused decision-making, with Hitler and his entourage taking refuge in potentially lethal cocktails of stimulants administered by the physician Dr Morell as the war turned against Germany. While drugs cannot on their own explain the events of the Second World War or its outcome, Ohler shows, they change our understanding of it. Blitzed forms a crucial missing piece of the story.