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.