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Fascinating footnotes from history / Giles Milton.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
909 MILT	Adult Non Fiction		Riverwood .	. Available .

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ISBN	9781473608924 (hardback)
ISBN	1473608929 (hardback)
Name	Milton, Giles author.
Title	Fascinating footnotes from history / Giles Milton.
Published	London : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2015.
Published	©2015
Description	xiii, 380 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary	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: in his characteristically engaging prose, Fascinating Footnotes From History details one hundred of the quirkiest historical nuggets; 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. Fascinating Footnotes From History 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 (and animals) from history.
Subjects	History -- Miscellanea
Links to Related Works	Subject References: History -- Miscellanea . Authors: Milton, Giles .