When Hitler Took Cocaine And Lenin Lost His Brain by Giles Milton
History's Strangest Moments
A lively collection of true, little-known episodes and oddities from twentieth-century history, tracing how eccentric personal habits, medical mishaps, bizarre experiments and unlikely coincidences shaped the lives of prominent figures and the course of events. Drawing on archival sources and eyewitness accounts, it stitches together colorful vignettes—from leaders’ strange behaviors and scandals to vanished artifacts and curious scientific practices—mixing scholarship with wit to reveal the human quirks behind major historical moments.
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- 2005
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