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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.

"Auschwitz" se ha convertido en sinónimo del genocidio contra los judíos europeos. El mayor campo de concentración del Tercer Reich, en el que fueron asesinadas más de un millón de personas, estaba situado en las inmediaciones de la ciudad del mismo nombre que en la Segunda Guerra Mundial llegó a ser "ciudad modelo" de la colonización alemana. La normalidad y el crimen iban aquí de la mano. Sybille Steinbacher describe de manera concisa la historia de Auschwitz, centrándose en la unidad conceptual, temporal y geográfica, de la política de exterminio y la "conquista de espacio vital" germano. La autora se interroga sobre la percepción del acontecer asesino en la opinión pública y la situación de los presos, las posibilidades de resistencia contra las SS y el comportamiento de los Aliados. Un capítulo aparte está dedicado a la cuestión de la cifra de víctimas. Finalmente se trata el tema de la persecución judicial de los crímenes después de la guerra y la "mentira sobre Auschwitz."

September 29th 1938. The day the fate of Czechoslovakia was sealed by the Munich Agreement. Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain and - the phantom of Munich, Edouard Daladier, president of the French Council. Summer 1968. A mysterious American journalist, young, female, Czech in origin - lands on a small island in the Rhone river. Her mission is to find Edouard Daladier, who is widely believed to be dead and to persuade him, as the only living witness to the events of Munich to let her have access to his extraordinary archive and to tell her his secrets.Daladier is a recluse, obsessed with history and his part in it but the journalist succeeds in drawing from him the astonishing story of the betrayal of a nation. Scene by scene, hour by hour the reader accompanies Daladier from his departure to Munich to his triumphant, but ultimately tragic return to Paris. In Munich we sit with him and the other leaders at the negotiation table, at lunch, in and out of each other's seats, hotel rooms and cars. The tensions of the fateful day build up, the political twists and turns and the personal intensities are described with insight and humour. "The Ghost of Munich" has the sharpness of a film, the drama of tragedy and the truth of history. -- Publisher details.

The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But France's leading sociologist and cultural theorist shows that few cultural activities are more structured and systematic than photography.

"A revelatory history of the transformational decade after World War II when Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat, turned away from fascism, and reckoned with the corruption of its soul, and the horrors of the Holocaust"--

The sequel to "Love Life," this story explores themes of parental redemptive love.