When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lo..., Giles Milton
When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lo..., Giles Milton
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When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain
History's Unknown Chapters

Author: Giles Milton

Narrator: Giles Milton

Unabridged: 4 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/02/2016

Synopsis

Obscure and addictive true tales from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles Milton

This program is read by the author, the host of the popular podcast, Unknown History with 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.

About Giles Milton

Giles Milton is the million-copy, internationally bestselling author of a dozen works of narrative history. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages. One of Milton’s previous books, Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, is currently being developed into a major screen project. Milton is the writer and narrator of the acclaimed podcast series Cover Up: Ministry of Secrets, produced by Sony. He lives in London and Burgundy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fatemeh

با توجه به اسم‌کتاب فکر میکردم بیشتر تمرکز کتاب روی این دو شخصیت باشه و برام‌جالب بود که به زبان ساده زندگی این دو نفر رو بخونم اما اصلا اینطوری نبود و به طور کلی داستان های تاریخی بود که هر کدوم از داستان ها ۴ یا ۵‌ صفحه از کتاب رو شامل میشدند . بعضی داستان ها جالب بود و بعضی هاش تکراری و مسخره اما......more

Goodreads review by Leila

موضوع این کتاب حقایق کمتر شنیده شده‌ی تاریخی است. بسیاری از داستان‌های این مجموعه در مورد افراد عادی‌‌ای است که ناگهان خودشان را وسط ماجراهای بسیار غیرعادی می‌یابند؛ ماجراهایی که گاهی تبدیل به اتفاقات مهم تاریخی می‌شوند. از جمله : فرد خوش شانسی که از انفجار بمب‌ هسته‌ای در هیروشیما و ناگازاکی جان سال......more

Goodreads review by Sara

بزرگ‌ترین ضدحال کتاب همین بود که برخلاف عنوان و جلو گول‌زننده‌اش، تنها تعداد خیلی کمی از داستان‌های کتاب به این دو‌بزرگوار اختصاص داشتن‌. (البته در کل فکر می‌کردم قراره نویسنده این دو نفرو یه جوری بهم ربط بده که کیلومترها با محتوای کتاب فرق داشت 😅) تعداد نسبتا کمی از داستان‌ها برام جدید بود ولی با ا......more

Goodreads review by Nik

Feels like centuries ago, maybe when dinos were still around and I was just a kid in a good, old USSR we had a subscription among tons of other news-papers and journals to newspaper "Trud", which last column (the only one I read) contained curios/unusual/humorous events around the globe. This felt l......more

Quotes

“If you get a kick out of odd historical trivia like that, you’ll devour “When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain,” the first installment in Giles Milton’s new “History’s Unknown Chapters” series. Packed with 50 stories your social studies teacher probably skipped, the book sports a wandering eye and witty voice that make for diverting winter reading.”—The Washington Post

"A list of insurance claims taken out on pets drowned with the Titanic. A legend detailing the various forms of Chinese castrati. A detailed description—by the oh-so-fittingly named Sir Hamon L’Estrange—of a dodo a mere quarter century before the bird’s extinction. These moments are the winking epigraphs of grinning Death, gleaned from Giles Milton’s history of the bizarre, the obfuscated and the macabre. And what a history it is!"—Paste Magazine

"50 brief but detailed stories, from the hilarious to the absurd."—The Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Fans of history, trivia, and Miilton's previous works will delight in this collection of lesser-known historical stories."—Library Journal (starred review)

"Stranger than fiction? Possibly, but life always seems to create more bizarre people and unforeseen happenings than most writers will ever imagine."—CounterPunch

“[An] easily digestible mix of humor, trivia, and solid research….Dozens of seemingly too-good-to-be-true tales…There are plenty of fabulously dramatic adventures here…Milton’s entertaining collection is sure to leave readers waiting for the next volume in the series."—Publishers Weekly

“Milton has assembled an easily digestible compendium of historical oddities about the famous and infamous.”—Kirkus Reviews

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