When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain

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Preface -- Book I : When Hitler took cocaine. I never knew that about Hitler ; Jeez, it's cold out there ; Hell in Japan ; Ladies in disguise ; Man's best friend ; Guilty until proven innocent ; Big-time adventure ; I'm a celebrity ; Not enough sex -- Further reading -- Book II : When Lenin lost his brain. When Lenin lost his brain ; Just bad luck ; Not quite normal ; Mein Führer ; Get me out of here! ; O what a lovely war! ; Dial M for murder ; The great escape ; A painful end -- Further reading.;"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"--