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History's Unknown Chapters
by Giles Milton
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.
"Starred Review. Fans of history, trivia, and Milton's previous works will delight in this collection of lesser-known historical stories." - Library Journal
"A few chapters will elicit a response of "so what?" But there's enough adventure, gore, and mystery to make this volume mostly entertaining." - Kirkus
"Milton's entertaining collection is sure to leave readers waiting for the next volume in the series." - Publishers Weekly
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British writer and journalist Giles Milton was born in Buckinghamshire in
1966. He has contributed articles for most of the British national newspapers as
well as many foreign publications, and specializes in the history of travel and
exploration. In the course of his researches, he has traveled extensively in
Europe, the Middle East, Japan and the Far East, and the Americas.
Knowledgeable, insatiably curious and entertaining, Milton locates history's
most fascinating—and most overlooked—stories and brings them to life in his
books.
He lives in London, where he is a member of the Hakluyt Society, which is
dedicated to reprinting the works of explorers and adventurers in scholarly
editions, some of which he uses in his research. He wrote most of ...
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