Spirits of Conflict: A History of War in Twelve Cocktails (Signed)
Every war has an official history. This is the other one.
Spirits of Conflict follows twelve drinks through the moments that made them matter. Not recipes. Not bar trivia. The book tracks how a glass of something ended up standing in for rebellion, for empire, for scientific ambition, and for the thin celebrations that come after catastrophe.
It opens with rum punch in colonial Boston, in the rooms where a revolution got talked into existence. It moves to the Congress of Vienna, where Talleyrand ran statecraft through dinner tables. It covers the British Empire's long dependence on tonic water, the Royal Navy's rum ration and the weight of the day that tradition ended, the uneasy champagne of VE Day under a new nuclear shadow, a makeshift bar in Kabul named for a Cold War drill, and the Manhattan Project's fingerprints on a drink built out of its own contradictions.
Twelve chapters. Twelve drinks. One argument: ordinary objects absorb extraordinary history, and the people holding them usually know it before the historians do.
Every copy sold here is signed by Dr. Logan Rogue. Signed by hand, packed in a poly mailer, and shipped direct. You do not get that from a warehouse.
Details
- Authors: Shane McNeil, Logan Rogue, Andrew Rolander
- Publisher: Matador Publishing
- Published: June 30, 2026
- 130 pages, English
- Hardcover: ISBN 979-8996717903, 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.5 in
- Softcover: ISBN 979-8996717910, 9 x 6 x 0.4 in
Only what is on the shelf is signed and ready to ship. When this batch runs out, the next one is weeks away.
The beaten path is for beaten people. So is the official history.
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