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Did you know that Hitler took cocaine? That Stalin robbed a bank? That Charlie Chaplin's corpse was filched and held to ransom? Giles Milton is a master of historical narrative and in his typically entertaining and engaging prose, Stranger Than Fiction: Fascinating Footnotes from History details one hundred of the quirkiest historical nuggets from the past; eye-stretching stories that read like fiction but are one-hundred-per-cent fact. There is Hiroo Onoda, the lone Japanese soldier still fighting the Second World War in 1974; Agatha Christie, who mysteriously disappeared for eleven days in 1926 and Werner Franz, a cabin boy on the Hindenburg who lived to tell the tale when it was engulfed in flames in 1937. Stranger Than Fiction also answers who ate the last dodo, who really killed Rasputin and why Sergeant Stubby had four legs. Peopled with a gallery of spies, rogues, cannibals, adventurers and slaves, and spanning twenty centuries and six continents, Giles Milton's impeccably researched footnotes shed light on some of the most infamous stories and most flamboyant and colourful characters from history.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Humanities History General & world history

• Pełny tytuł: Fascinating Footnotes from History
• Autor: Giles Milton
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 320
• EAN: 9781473608924
• ID: 09240632
• Wydawca: John Murray Press
• Waga: 693 g
• Wymiary: 198 × 129 × 38 mm
• Data wydania: 24. September 2015

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