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Cargando... When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost his Brainpor Giles Milton
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Some of the chapters get fairly gruesome. ( ) This collection of vignettes from history is difficult to categorize, but major themes include surviving (or not) cataclysm, true crime, and military exploits. Despite the sensational title, most of the anecdotes are familiar and well-documented. In tone it reminded me a lot of the early practitioners of soft news on radio in the middle of the twentieth century such as Paul Harvey, Bill Stern, and Robert Ripley, who strung together yarns which would be of interest to a wide section of the public and invited speculation as to their truth. As for documentation, the author appends a short section which is not quite endnotes, not quite bibliography, so there are at least a few somebodies out there vouching for the credence of these stories. This was a fun, easy read; empty calories, perhaps, but a not unwelcome break from meatier fare. Fascinating! Don't let the title guide you in your decision to read his book. Only the first chapter is about Hitler, and he really did take cocaine. Who knew? There are lots of other fascinating stories that leave you thinking "huh...imagine that". Short and sweet, very interesting, highly recommended. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"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"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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