Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs

In his path-breaking Killer High, Peter Andreas shows how six psychoactive drugs-ranging from old to relatively new, mild to potent, licit to illicit, natural to synthetic-have proven to be particularly important war ingredients. This sweeping history tells the story of war from antiquity to the modern age through the lens of alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines, and cocaine.



Beer and wine drenched ancient and medieval battlefields, and the distilling revolution lubricated the con...