FASCINATING FOOTNOTES FROM HISTOR

Peopled with a gallery of spies, rogues, cannibals, adventurers and slaves and spanning 20 centuries and six continents, this impeccably researched footnote to history sheds light on infamous stories, and also answers who ate the last dodo, who really killed Rasputin, and why Sergeant Stubby had four legs? Things you never knew about Hitler include that he had an English girlfriend and an American nephew. Read about an escape from Auschwitz, how to survive an SS massacre, the African cannibal and the Mad Baron of Mongolia, the Emperor of the United States, the worst banker in history, and a hundred more quirky historical nuggets. 380 browseworthy pages...

"The master of narrative history" ~ Sunday Times

Giles Milton is an internationally best-selling author of narrative non-fiction. His latest book is Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World. Previous books include D-Day: The Soldiers' Story and Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which was a Sunday Times best-seller. Other titles include Nathaniel's Nutmeg - serialised by the BBC - and seven other critically acclaimed works of history.