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About the Author

GILES MILTON
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg
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The Perfect Corpse,
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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Preface

BOOK I:
WHEN HITLER TOOK COCAINE

PART I
•
I Never Knew That About Hitler

  1.
Hitler's English Girlfriend

  2.
Hitler's American Nephew

  3.
When Hitler Took Cocaine

PART II
•
Jeez, It's Cold Out There

  4.
A Corpse on Everest

  5.
Drunk on the
Titanic

  6.
The Man Who Was Buried Alive

PART III
•
Hell in Japan

  7.
The Long War of Hiroo Onoda

  8.
The Kamikaze Pilot Who Survived

  9.
Surviving Hiroshima and Nagasaki

PART IV
•
Ladies in Disguise

10.
Agatha Christie's Greatest Mystery

11.
Dressed to Kill

12.
Mission into Danger

PART V
•
Man's Best Friend

13.
The Real War Horse

14.
Pigeon to the Rescue

15.
Barking for Victory

PART VI
•
Guilty Until Proven Innocent

16.
Angel of Death

17.
Who Killed Rasputin?

18.
Till Death Us Do Part

PART VII
•
Big-Time Adventure

19.
By Balloon to the North Pole

20.
Escape from Alcatraz

21.
A Lonely Trek Through the Andes

PART VIII
•
I'm a Celebrity

22.
The First Celebrity Kidnap

23.
Sir Osman of Hyderabad

24.
The Very Strange Death of Alfred Loewenstein

PART IX
•
Not Enough Sex

25.
The Last Eunuch of China

Further Reading

BOOK II:
WHEN LENIN LOST HIS BRAIN

PART I
•
When Lenin Lost His Brain

1.
When Lenin Lost His Brain

2.
Into the Monkey House

3.
The Human Freak Show

PART II
•
Just Bad Luck

4.
Freak Wave

5.
Japan's Deadly Balloon Bomb

6.
Never Go to Sea

PART III
•
Not Quite Normal

7.
Eiffel's Rival

8.
Emperor of the United States

9.
The Man Who Bought His Wife

PART IV
•
Mein Führer

10.
Hitler's Final Hours

11.
Seizing Eichmann

12.
The Celebrity Executioner

PART V
•
Get Me Out of Here!

13.
Trapped on an Iceberg

14.
Volcano of Death

15.
The Female Robinson Crusoe

PART VI
•
O What a Lovely War!

16.
The Last Post

17.
To Hell and Back

18.
Let's Talk Gibberish

PART VII
•
Dial M for Murder

19.
Good Ship
Zong

20.
The Suspicions of Inspector Dew

21.
Dead as a Dodo

PART VIII
•
The Great Escape

22.
A Sting in the Tale

23.
And Then There Were None

24.
Edwin Darling's Nightmare

PART IX
•
A Painful End

25.
Never Go to Bed with a Knife

Further Reading

About the Author

Also by Giles Milton

Copyright

 

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First published in Great Britain under the titles
When Hitler Took Cocaine
and
When Lenin Lost His Brain
by John Murray (Publishers), an Hachette UK company

First U.S. Edition: January 2016