- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; 1st Edition edition (16 Jun 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747580928
- ISBN-13: 978-0747580928
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 612,186 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Young Stalin
'An unputdownable narrative and forensically gripping investigation into how energetic German corporate executives became the degenerate monsters who made the Holocaust technically possible.'
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PRAISE FOR 'ASPIRIN' 'Blends politics, big business, social and medical history, greed incredible dedication and human folly in a lively page-turner' Irish Times 'Fascinating ... Aspirin appears to be one of the most successful drugs ever discovered. Thanks to the work of all the scientists so deservedly recalled in this book, it is also extremely cheap ... perhaps there is something in the notion of providence after all' Sunday Telegraph 'Jeffreys gets the balance just right... His style is enjoyable, the book is a triumph' Popular Science
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
It's probably easy to be put off a book whose subject is a chemical company, but if you are you'll miss out.
Hell's Cartel is the shocking story of the Faustian pact made between one of the world's largest corporations, IG Farben, and the Nazis.
In great, but rarely tedious, detail Jeffreys shows how a bunch of respectable scientists - responsible for, amongst other things, inventing aspirin and fertiliser, and including at least one Nobel prize-winner - sold out to greed and fear.
The story of their collusion in the development of Auschwitz and their subsequent trial is a page-turner of the first order, and a lesson if we need one on the extremes to which big business will go in search of profit.
Hell's Cartel is the shocking story of the Faustian pact made between one of the world's largest corporations, IG Farben, and the Nazis.
In great, but rarely tedious, detail Jeffreys shows how a bunch of respectable scientists - responsible for, amongst other things, inventing aspirin and fertiliser, and including at least one Nobel prize-winner - sold out to greed and fear.
The story of their collusion in the development of Auschwitz and their subsequent trial is a page-turner of the first order, and a lesson if we need one on the extremes to which big business will go in search of profit.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Hell's Cartel is an amazing read. Beautifully written, deeply touching, yet wonderfully gripping. The author must have put his life on hold in order to create such a compelling and powerful book - which combines true sincerity with a natural story-teller's flair. Highly recommended.
The book is one I've been after for ages, since a friend emigrated with my copy of an original US Army propaganda copy of the IG Farben story about 20 years ago. Unfortunately it does not contain as much source material as my original which I suspect is a little too embarrassing for some of those involved - going right back to the days of the Junckers and the 1860s. A good informative read, to put alongside the issues governments and peoples have with powerful multi-national corporations - whether in pharmaceuticals, agri-corps, banking or networking software operators. If you have a soft spot for conspiracy theory, this book will feed it with historic facts and reality.
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