{"product_id":"9781328915344","title":"Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Bestseller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e “[A] fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich.” — \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e   The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new 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, \u003ci\u003eBlitzed\u003c\/i\u003e throws light on a history that, until now, has remained in the shadows.   “Delightfully nuts.” — \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e   NORMAN OHLER is an award-winning German novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. He is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eDie Quotenmaschine \u003c\/i\u003e(the world’s first hypertext novel), \u003ci\u003eMitte,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStadt des Goldes\u003c\/i\u003e (translated into English as \u003ci\u003ePonte City\u003c\/i\u003e). He was cowriter of the script for Wim Wenders’s film \u003ci\u003ePalermo Shooting. \u003c\/i\u003eHe lives in Berlin.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46958924660976,"sku":"9781328915344","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781328915344_p0.jpg?v=1763707952","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781328915344","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}