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“Makes readers look at this well-trodden period in a new way and does it in a readable, inviting format.” Newsweek
“[A] fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich.” Washington Post
“Despite the Nazis’ all-out war on drug use, virtually everyone, from housewives to the Führer, was drugged up…Ohler’s account is full of rich character studies.” New York Times
“I had thought nothing could make [Nazis] more horrifying, but that was before I encountered Blitzed." Esquire
“Explosive…Ohler describes the chemical ignition of the first assault on the Western front with a novelist’s flair.” Rolling Stone
“A fascinating, most extraordinary revelation.” BBC World News
“Ohler’s astonishing account…looks set to reframe the way certain aspects of the Third Reich will be viewed in the future.” Guardian (London)
“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.” New Republic
“The picture [Ohler] paints is both a powerful and an extreme one…Gripping reading.” Times Literary Supplement (London)
“Tells a deliriously druggy tale of the Third Reich.” Paris Reviews