Tripped - Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of the bestselling Blitzed.

About the author

Norman Ohler is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of The Infiltrators and the New York Times bestseller Blitzed, as well as the novels Die Quotenmaschine (the world's first hypertext novel), Mitte and Stadt des Goldes (translated into English as Ponte City) and the historical crime novel Die Gleichung des Lebens. He lives in Berlin.

Summary

A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of the bestselling Blitzed.

Foreword

A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of the bestselling Blitzed.

Product details

• Authors: Norman Ohler, Ohler Norman
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2024
• EAN: 9781838953584
• ISBN: 978-1-83895-358-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 265 g
• Illustrations: B&W integrated photographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Germany, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, General and world history, History of the Americas, The Cold War, c 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period)