When Hitler took cocaine and Lenin lost his brain : history's unknown chapters / Giles Milton.
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TextPublisher: New York : Picador, 2016Edition: 1st ed. First U.S. editionDescription: ix, 261 p. ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781250078773 (paperback)Contained works: Milton, Giles. When Lenin lost his brainSubject(s): History -- Miscellanea | HISTORY / Europe / Germany | HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet UnionDDC classification: 909 Online resources: Cover image Summary: "Obscure and addictive true tales from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles Milton. The first installment in Giles Milton's outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters: colorful and accessible, intelligent and illuminating, Milton shows his customary historical flair as he delves into the little-known stories from the past.There's the cook aboard the Titanic, who pickled himself with whiskey and survived in the icy seas where most everyone else died. There's the man who survived the atomic bomb in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And there's many, many more. Covering everything from adventure, war, murder and slavery to espionage, including the stories of the female Robinson Crusoe, Hitler's final hours, Japan's deadly balloon bomb and the emperor of the United States, these tales deserve to be told"-- Provided by publisher.
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First work originally published: London : John Murray, 2010; 2nd work originally published: London : John Murray, 2010.
"Obscure and addictive true tales from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles Milton. The first installment in Giles Milton's outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters: colorful and accessible, intelligent and illuminating, Milton shows his customary historical flair as he delves into the little-known stories from the past.There's the cook aboard the Titanic, who pickled himself with whiskey and survived in the icy seas where most everyone else died. There's the man who survived the atomic bomb in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And there's many, many more. Covering everything from adventure, war, murder and slavery to espionage, including the stories of the female Robinson Crusoe, Hitler's final hours, Japan's deadly balloon bomb and the emperor of the United States, these tales deserve to be told"-- Provided by publisher.
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