Don’t fight sober
Mike Jay, 5 January 2017
Shooting Up: A History of Drugs in Warfare
by Łukasz Kamieński.
Hurst, 381 pp., £25, March 2016,978 1 84904 551 3 Show More
by Łukasz Kamieński.
Hurst, 381 pp., £25, March 2016,
Blitzed: Drugs In Nazi Germany
by Norman Ohler.
Allen Lane, 360 pp., £20, October 2016,978 0 241 25699 2 Show More
by Norman Ohler.
Allen Lane, 360 pp., £20, October 2016,
“... drugs in warfare that grew out of his research into future military applications of biotechnology, Łukasz Kamieński lists some of the obstacles to getting the facts straight. State authorities tend to cloak drug use in secrecy, for tactical advantage and because it frequently conflicts with civilian norms and laws. Conversely it can be exaggerated to ... ”
