Editorial Penguin Books Ltd
Fecha de edición mayo 2017 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780141983165
368 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
'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 sensational German bestseller on the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich, from Hitler to housewives. 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.
Norman Ohler se licenció en periodismo en la Universidad de Hamburgo y cursó estudios en ciencias culturales y filosofía. Es autor de novelas, ha sido corresponsal en Ramallah, Palestina, y ha escrito guiones cinematográficos. Ha recibido numerosos premios y becas. El gran delirio (Crítica, 2016) fue su primera obra de no ficción, y para escribirla estuvo cinco años investigando en archivos alemanes y estadounidenses.
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