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title: Blitzed
type: Book
date: 2020-07-31
rating: 5
author: "Norman Ohler"
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year: 2016
status: Finished
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It would be a lie to say this was an interesting book that I didn't think was good; maybe it would be more accurate to say that this book contained interesting things in an uninteresting way.  There were a lot of legitimately good bits (the general story of the pharmacological industry as it dovetailed with the military complex; the general hypocrisy of the Nazi reliance on drugs; the fascinating hypothesis that the blitzkreig was basically a meth binge) and yet.   The prose was lackluster (perhaps due to this being a translation!); the author inserted *just enough* editorialization to take me out of the narrative; the book refuses to decide if it is trying to take a moral argument; an excessive amount of time is spent following the personal life of Thomas Morrell, who seems completely useless except that his journal is a key bit of research.

Skip it unless you are *really* intrigued by the premise.