The Bohemians, Norman Ohler
The Bohemians, Norman Ohler
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The Bohemians
The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

Author: Norman Ohler

Narrator: Peter Ganim

Unabridged: 11 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 07/14/2020


Synopsis

“A detailed and meticulously researched tale… that reads like a thriller.”—New York Times Book Review

From the New York Times best-selling author of Blitzed, the incredible true story of two idealistic young lovers who led the anti-Nazi resistance in the darkening heart of Berlin

Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet—and one of history’s greatest conspiracies is born.
 
Harro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of antifascist fighters that stretched across Berlin’s bohemian underworld. Harro himself infiltrated German intelligence and began funneling Nazi battle plans to the Allies, including the details of Hitler’s surprise attack on the Soviet Union. But nothing could prepare Harro and Libertas for the betrayals they would suffer in this war of secrets—a struggle in which friend could be indistinguishable from foe. Drawing on unpublished diaries, letters, and Gestapo files, Norman Ohler spins an unforgettable tale of love, heroism, and sacrifice in The Bohemians.

About Norman Ohler

Norman Ohler is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed, the non-fiction books Tripped about Nazi research into LSD during World War II and 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sam on September 02, 2020

Norman Ohler follows up his fantastic book Blitzed (my favourite book of 2016) with The Bohemians, another history book about the Third Reich, focusing mainly on two figures, Harro and Libertas Schulze-Boysen, a young couple who were part of the German resistance to Hitler’s Nazi regime during the w......more

Goodreads review by Eylül on May 21, 2022

Mahvoldum, mahvoldum. Daha yılı yarılamadık ama Harro ile Libertas’ın bu sene okuduğum en iyi kitaplardan biri olacağı şimdiden belli. En son ne zaman bu hale geldiğimi hatırlıyorum: Malaparte’nin Kaputt’u'nu okurken. Evet o da olağanüstü bir İkinci Dünya Savaşı kitabı ancak arada bir fark var: orad......more

Goodreads review by Ferda Nihat on March 19, 2022

Seçkin aile çocukları olmalarının konforunu bir kenara iterek, insanlık onuru için, Nazi cehenneminde hayatları pahasına küçük bir direniş vahası oluşturan bir avuç insanın trajedi ile sonlanan gerçek öyküsü. * "Bütün çabaları, sorumluluk sahibi özerk eylemi ölçü alan bir maneviyata ulaşmak." "Nazi d......more

Goodreads review by Efrahim on March 13, 2025

Weimar'ın o bohem ve renkli dünyasından gelen bir avuç sanatçının ve entelektüelin, Nazi gaddarlığına karşı gösterdiği cüretkar mücadelenin muazzam öykülemesi. Birçoğu, rejime kolaylıkla uyum gösterip bu süreci atlatabilecekken direnmeyi seçmiş insanlar. Ne yaptıklarının tamamiyle bilincindeler ve k......more