Imagine historians' surprise on learning that 'icon of excess' and larger-than-life playboy monarch, King Farouk I of Egypt, 1920-1965, wrote an autobiography. Allegedly. Transcribed from a manuscript discovered in mysterious circumstances, and only now publishable in these more liberal times, this book reveals a scandalous secret history requiring a radical rethink of just about everything. Including World War II, the Cold War, and Stalin's dancing...