Tanked

By: Eamon Evans

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Synopsis: Vikings were on mushrooms. Booze may have cost us Gallipoli. The Nazis loved meth, and the Stone Age was more like the &‘stoned age&’.We tend to see the past as a dull, sober place – as a time of stiff collars and straight-laced conformity, when people&’s bodies were as pure as their minds. We need to think again.It turns out that many of the great events in history wouldn&’t have happened if someone hadn&’t got smashed. From presidents and prime ministers, soldiers and scientists, to explorers, writers, musos and more, many of mankind&’s great movers and shakers might have been better off having a quiet lie-down. And there&’s no one better placed to shine a light on their secrets than the ever-witty – and occasionally coherent – Eamon Evans.Substance by substance and binge by binge, Tanked is your guide to all the trashy little moments that have helped change the course of our world.