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Giles Milton
A powerful tale of destruction, heroism and survival by the bestselling author of NATHANIEL’S NUTMEG.
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Originally published in Great Britain as The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by John Murray (Publishers) –Copyright page.
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From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the motley group of Allied men and women who worked to manage Stalin's mercurial, explosive approach to diplomacy…
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From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies' secret mission to wartime Moscow.
The 25th anniversary edition of the much-beloved true adventure tale of Nathaniel Courthope; "A magnificent piece of popular history" (The Independent on Sunday).
The tiny island of Run is an…
A first, comic, novel from the renowned author of Nathaniel’s Nutmeg and White Gold
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Milton’s first book, The Riddle and the Knight, is part travelogue, part historical mystery, and a fascinating account of the legend of Sir John Mandeville, a long-forgotten knight who was…
Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a gripping and vivid narrative of adventure and derring-do that is also, perhaps, the last great untold story of the Second World War.
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The international bestselling historian and host of the Unknown History podcast presents a ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible…
The lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II that fired the starting gun for the Cold War –
From Giles Milton, the highly acclaimed author of Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, Big Chief Elizabeth is a riveting historical mystery of colonial America.
In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new…
Fascinating historical footnotes from the bestselling author of Nathaniel’s Nutmeg.
Giles Milton’s White Gold tells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco.
An elegantly discursive retelling … customarily elegant prose. –Simon Winchester, The…
When the frozen corpse of Ferris Clark is found in the Greenland ice, forensic archaeologist Jack Raven is hired to investigate. He is suspicious from the outset. The corpse is…
First published in United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Originally published under the titles: When Hitler took cocaine and When Linin lost his brain.
1917, post-Russian Revolution, an unlikely and eccentric band of British spies are smuggled into newly Soviet Russia to thwart Lenin’s plan to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor…
The incredible story of the secret underground operations of the Second World War.
The extraordinary adventure-filled story of how England came to own Manhattan in the seventeenth century
Bestselling author of NATHANIEL’S NUTMEG, Giles Milton takes us on another fascinating and extraordinary historical adventure.
Bestselling author Giles Milton takes us on a fascinating Jacobean adventure.
Rich in historical insight and told in a dramatic and engaging voice, this is a superb evocation of the period with a series character to rival Sharpe.
Bestselling author Giles Milton takes us on an extraordinary journey and uncovers the answer to one of greatest historical riddles
A powerful story of a young man conscripted into Hitler’s army and a family left behind, a sympathetic view of life from the other side.
The definitive soldier-on-the-beach account of the greatest invasion in history
A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from ‘the master of narrative history’.
Originally published in Great Britain in 2010 separately as ‘When Churchill slaughtered sheep’ and ‘When Stalin robbed a bank’ by John Murray (Publishers).
With all the adventure and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, an acclaimed historian dazzles readers with the true story of William Adams, the first Englishman to…
Call Me Gorgeous! is a fun, stylish book about a very, very strange creature. It has a porcupine's spines and a crocodile's teeth, a chameleon's tail and a cockerel's feet…
Call Me Gorgeous! is a fun, stylish book about a very, very strange creature. It has a porcupine’s spines and a crocodile’s teeth, a chameleon’s tail and a cockerel’s feet…
Milton Grundy
Serving as a travel guide to Venice, this book divides Venice up into seven walks and four excursions, with eight maps, so that people can see the maximum number of…
Pownoll William Phipps
Title: Chalfont St. Giles past and present, with the parish church, Milton’s cottage, and Jordans, the Quakers’ burial ground … Second edition.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is…
Philip Neve
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
Samuel Stearns
Title: Ministerial fidelity illustrated and urged: a sermon delivered at Milton, February 18, 1807, at the ordination of the Rev. Samuel Gile to the pastoral care of the church and…
Topics range from fossil remnants on Axel Heiberg Island to collaborative tourism planning in the Yukon; from the influence of sea-ice and ocean circulation on arctic climate, to the differences…
