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SUMMARY:Martha Hall Kelly
DESCRIPTION:Lilac Girls is an arresting\, powerful debut novel inspired by the life of debutante turned unlikely WWII hero Caroline Ferriday. \nOn a September day in Manhattan in 1939\, twenty-something Caroline Ferriday is consumed by her efforts to secure the perfect boutonniere for an important French diplomat and resisting the romantic advances of a married actor. Meanwhile across the Atlantic\, Kasia Kuzmerick\, a Polish Catholic teenager\, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on Poland. As tensions rise abroad – and in her personal life – Caroline’s interest in aiding the war effort in France grows and she eventually learns about the dire situation at the Ravensbruck all-female concentration camp. At the same time\, Kasia’s carefree youth is quickly slipping away\, only to be replaced by a fervor for the Polish resistance movement. Through Ravensbruck – and the horrific atrocities taking place there told in part by an infamous German surgeon\, Herta Oberheuser – the two women’s lives will converge in unprecedented ways and a novel of redemption and hope emerges that is breathtaking in scope and depth. \nFrom New York to Paris\, and Furstenberg to Lublin\, Martha Hall Kelly captures the powerful pull of human compassion\, strong enough to stretch across continents and capable of triumphing over the grim evils of war. This is a striking story of an unsung heroine and her resolute will to right what is wrong. \nMartha Hall Kelly is a native New Englander\, now transplanted in Atlanta\, Georgia\, where she spends her days filling legal pads with stories and reading WWII books. This is her first novel.
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LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Norman Ohler
DESCRIPTION:Norman Ohler in conversation about his new book\, Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich \n\nPraise for Norman Ohler \n\n“A huge contribution … Remarkable.” —Antony Beevor\, BBC 4 Today \n\n“Ohler’s astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the Second World War … Blitzed looks set to reframe the way certain aspects of the Third Reich will be viewed in the future.” — Guardian \n  \n“Blitzed tells the remarkable story of how Nazi Germany slid towards junkie-state status. It is an energetic … account of an accelerating\, modernizing society\, an ambitious pharmaceuticals industry\, a military machine that was looking for ways to create an unbeatable soldier\, and a dictator who couldn’t function without fixes from his quack … It has an uncanny ability to disturb.” — Times (UK) \n\nAbout Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich \n\nThe Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical\, mental\, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history\, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II\, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse\, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine\, opiates\, and\, most of all\, methamphetamines\, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact\, troops regularly took rations of a form of crystal meth—the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to explain certain German military victories. \n  \nDrugs seeped all the way up to the Nazi high command and\, especially\, to Hitler himself. Over the course of the war\, Hitler became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs—including a form of heroin—administered by his personal doctor. While drugs alone cannot explain the Nazis’ toxic racial theories or the events of World War II\, Ohler’s investigation makes an overwhelming case that\, if drugs are not taken into account\, our understanding of the Third Reich is fundamentally incomplete.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norman-ohler/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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