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Title: When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain
Subtitle: History's Unknown Chapters
Author: Giles Milton
Narrator: Giles Milton
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-02-16
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 194 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
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 bombs in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And there are 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.
Members Reviews:
Quite entertaining
So many interesting little stories from history. Very easy to listen to, the narration is entertaining. A detractor for me was that some of the short stories seem to end abruptly, providing little information aside from a brief summary. You won't gain anything groundbreaking from this book but for entertainment and sparking a little curiosity it's certainly worth a listen.
Not very compelling
This book was recommended to me by a friend, so I didn't really research it much before delving in. The historical stories I wanted to hear more about (Hitler, Lenin, etc.) were really briefly covered...a lot of the book was just more or less interesting tidbits of history. Usually less, but maybe that's just me. I guess I didn't realize the format of this book before purchasing.
Sometimes funny, sometimes sad and quite disturbing but definitely interesting.
A few of the stories in this book were familiar to me but most of them I had never heard.
It was a very interesting collection of odd historical events.
As I said in my title some of them were pretty disturbing.
If you are squeamish like me, you may need to take a break at times.
There were several stories that dealt with cannibalism and those are the ones that I found it difficult to listen to.
As someone who loves both history and trivia I enjoyed this book very much and would highly recommend it.
As you can see from my rating I thought that the author did a very good job as narrator as well.
Golden nuggets of history
A book that is both entertaining and will give you a glimpse into modern history you never heard of. These stories will get you thinking and entertainin you. Just listen to it, you won't regret it.
very interesting
this is an enjoyable and surprising story. well narrated and compelling. glad I bought it
