When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain

Posted on 09 June 2017 by Giles Milton

Obscure and addictive true tales from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles MiltonThe 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.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. New Download Books When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain by Giles Milton – kino-fada.fr Giles Milton goes through archives looking for interesting material that s been lost in the shuffle of history, and he does a fine job of unearthing some fascinating and horrifying dramas The book is made up of two sections, twenty five short pieces each, ranging from two to five pages Content ranges from Hitler s GI issues and by GI I mean gastrointestinal , health complaints and addictions, t...This is the ultimate airport book Seriously, for quite a while we kept coming across it in every single airport magazine store, until my boyfriend eventually bought it during some layover It was the memorable title and a really fitting cover design that first caught out attention Because we re both that shallow.The episodes in When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain refer to both the big, official history and small, personal histories Some of them are very well known and everyone This is the ultimate airport book Seriously, for quite a while we kept coming across it in every single airport magazine store, until my boyfriend eventually bought it during some layover It was the memorable title and a really fitting cover design that first caught out attention Because we re both that shallow.The episodes in When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain refer to both the big, official history and small, personal histories Some of them are very well known and everyone has surely picked up those stories somewhere in textbooks, documentaries and online I even remember my grandfather telling me some of them when I was little I wasn t a big fan of fairy tales and those were an alternative But they are still interesting Interesting as in unfathomable, bizarre, perplexing, insane, conceivable, t...Takto si predstavujem oddychov tanie Najsk r ako loveka povedzme e trochu od fachu ma zarazilo, e autor neuv dza nikde zdroje Nasledovala paranoidn epiz da pln hysterick ho googlenia si inform ci o autorovi a sp sobe jeho v skumu a to ma dos uk udnilo a pr behy, ktor som u predt m poznala dos podrobne napr klad tek Wetzlera a Vrbu mi posl ili na kontrolu Potom som sa u len te ila a miestami sm tila, hnevala sa a smiala.Ale naozaj mohol uvies zdroje aspo na koniec kni Takto si predstavujem oddychov tanie Najsk r ako loveka povedzme e trochu od fachu ma zarazilo, e autor neuv dza nikde zdroje Nasledovala paranoidn epiz da pln hysterick ho googlenia si inform ci o autorovi a sp sobe jeho v skumu a to ma dos uk udnilo a pr behy, ktor som u predt m poznala dos podrobne napr klad tek Wetzlera a Vrbu mi posl ili na kontrolu Potom som sa u len te ila a miestami sm tila, hnevala sa a smiala.Ale naozaj mohol uvies zdroje aspo na koniec knihy K u...An unusually entertaining bit of pop history This collects an impressive array of historical tidbits, many of which really do live up to the unknown in the title I m always impressed when a book like this has only one or two stories that I ve even heard of, and that was the case with this book And even the couple of stories that I was familiar with were engagingly written and had a couple of bits of information that I hadn t read before It seemed well researched to me, and I appreciated the An unusually entertaining bit of pop history This collects an impressive ar...Very good, read by the authorA lot of the stories I new of before, because I raised in a different age of information exchange people would actually talk to one another exchanging info and telling stories we read daily news papers, and magazines at the cinema newsreels would be shown in the classrooms teachers would pass on bits because they weren t always controlled by religious dogma or teachers union history and relative current events werepopular than fantasy and sci fiAll that s Very good, read by the authorA lot of the stories I new of before, because I raised in a different age of information exchange people would actually talk to one another exchanging info and telling stories we read daily news papers, and magazines at the cinema newsreels would be shown in the classrooms teachers would pass on bits because they weren t always controlled by religious dogma ...Really great little book Some have banged on it because of the length of the stories or that you can find materials on the Internet Maybe I m wrong, but that s kinda the point of the book Read some stories you haven t heard of, then if particularly interested, dolearning on the subject Picking up a 250 page history book that says on the back it has multiple stories and expecting every detail might mean your expectations are over reaching, not that the authors information was under reac Really great little book Some have banged on it because of the length of the stories or that you can find materials on the Internet Maybe I m wrong, but that s kinda the point of the book Read some stories you haven t heard of, then if particularly interested, dolear...I know the title of this book is odd, but believe me it is a book you can t put down This book is chock full of obscure events in history I learned so many interesting facts about both the infamous figures in history and the, up until now, stuff that was...Zaujimave drobnicky z historie s dorazom na 20 storocie Kazda zaujimavost je napisana na 2 3 strany, takze je to taka oddychovka na chvilky , ked clovek nema cas sa poriadne zacitat , ale samozrejme da sa zhltnut aj na posedeni...Short snippets of weird stories from history Good bathroom reading as another reviewer put iteasy to read, kind of mindless entertainment Some storiesinteresting than others Not a bad book to kill time on an airplane where I found it or when needing something quick and not necessarily engrossing.A Massa s Tavern Book Club pick Short, interesting historical oddities This may be the first book I ve ever read designed for people with ADD Great for jury duty or while watching a ballgame with a beer.

When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain

09 June 2017

Giles Milton