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Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
The Mavericks who Plotted Hitler''s Defeat
Av Giles Milton
E-bok, 2016
62 kr
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''A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it!'' Anthony Horowitz Six gentlemen, one goal - the destruction of Hitler''s war machine In the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler''s war machine through spectacular acts …
White Gold
The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2005
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
160 kr
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This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very few lived to tell the …
Paradise Lost
The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2009
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
163 kr
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On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one of the most compelling human dramas of the twentieth century. Almost two million people were caught …
Nathaniel's Nutmeg
How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2000
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
180 kr
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THE 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW FOREWORD FROM WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A book to read, reread, then read again to your children' Independent on Sunday'Once embarked upon the journey of the book, one is loath, sometimes unable to turn back' Sunday Times'A book that makes the reader sit in a trance, …
Russian Roulette
How British Spies Defeated Lenin
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2014
152 kr
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'It reads like fiction, but it is, astonishingly, history' THE TIMESIN 1917, AN ECCENTRIC BAND OF BRITISH SPIES IS SMUGGLED INTO NEWLY SOVIET RUSSIA.Their goal is to defeat Lenin's plan to destroy British India and bring down the democracies of the West. These extraordinary spies, led by Mansfield …
Empire at the Edge of the World: A Story of Endurance and Madness in the High Arctic
Av Giles Milton
Inbunden, 2027
379 kr
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Empire at the Edge of the World
Endurance and Madness in the High Arctic
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2026
230 kr
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One man's lust for empire sent fifteen people into the Arctic - only one came back.1913, the Arctic circle. Charismatic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson is obsessed with a frozen speck of land in the Siberian Arctic: Wrangel Island. Believing that whoever possesses it would control the future - air …
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2017
152 kr
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'A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it!' ANTHONY HOROWITZSIX GENTLEMEN, ONE GOAL - THE DESTRUCTION OF HITLER'S WAR MACHINE.In the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of …
Samurai William
The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2003
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
168 kr
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In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the East India Trading Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman William Adams was one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of ships bound for Asia, and he had washed up in the forbidden land of Japan.The traders were even more …
Stalin Affair
The Impossible Alliance that Won the War
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2025
165 kr
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'Delivered with flamboyance, it features a sparkling cast of chancers' KATJA HOYER, Daily Telegraph 5* review'Page-turning . . . a sizzling high-stakes tale' JAMES HOLLAND'This book might read like the screenplay of a gripping movie, yet every word is accurate and verified' ANDREW ROBERTS'Giles …
Edward Trencom's Nose
A Novel of History, Dark Intrigue and Cheese
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2013
244 kr
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Edward Trencom has bumbled through life, relying on his trusty nose to turn the family cheese shop into the most celebrated fromagerie in England. But his world is turned upside down when he stumbles across a crate of family papers. To his horror, Edward discovers that nine previous generations of …
The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2002
274 kr
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Edward Trencom's Nose
A Novel of History, Dark Intrigue and Cheese
Av Giles Milton
E-bok, 2012
158 kr
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Edward Trencom has bumbled through life, relying on his trusty nose to turn the family cheese shop into the most celebrated fromagerie in England. But his world is turned upside down when he stumbles across a crate of family papers. To his horror, Edward discovers that nine previous generations of …
Big Chief Elizabeth
How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2001
163 kr
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In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'.The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favourite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive, …
Riddle and the Knight
In Search of Sir John Mandeville
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2001
152 kr
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In 1322 Sir John Mandeville left England on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thirty-four years later, he returned, claiming to have visited not only Jerusalem, but India, China, Java, Sumatra and Borneo as well.His book about that voyage, THE TRAVELS, was heralded as the most important book of the Middle …
Wolfram
The Boy Who Went to War
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2011
157 kr
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The Aïchele family were decent, cultured, peace-loving Germans trying their hardest not to get swept up in the madness of Hitler's Third Reich. But by the time war came, for civilians on all sides, there was nowhere left to hide.The conflict took Wolfram, the family's gentle, 18-year-old son, to …
Samurai William
The Englishman Who Opened Japan
Av Giles Milton
E-bok, 2003
205 kr
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An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel''s Nutmeg In 1611, the merchants of London''s East India Company received a mysterious letter from Japan, written several years previously by a marooned English mariner named William Adams. …
When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank
History's Unknown Chapters
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2016
203 kr
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More addictive and mind-blowing true tales from history, told by Giles Milton-one of today's most entertaining and accessible yet always intelligent and illuminating historians In When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank , the second installment in his outrageously entertaining …
When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain
History's Unknown Chapters
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2016
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
214 kr
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Obscure and addictive true tales from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles Milton The first installment in Giles Milton's outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters: colorful and accessible, intelligent and illuminating, Milton shows his customary …
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2018
259 kr
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Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy
How the Allies Won on D-Day
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2021
403 kr
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg
or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History (25th Anniversary Edition)
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2024
276 kr
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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 insignificant speck in the Indonesian archipelago. Just two miles long and half a mile wide, it is …
White Gold
The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2021
321 kr
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Big Chief Elizabeth
The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2021
248 kr
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Checkmate in Berlin
The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2022
225 kr
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From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II as it’s never been told before BERLIN’S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE: the city, along with the rest of Germany, was to be carved up among the victorious powers— …
Empire at the Edge of the World
Endurance and Madness in the High Arctic
Av Giles Milton
Inbunden, 2026
280 kr
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'Thrillingly compelling' Daily Telegraph'A compelling combination of betrayal, catastrophe, starvation, madness, mutiny, murder and revenge' Spectator'Extraordinary ... An eye-opening, twist-filled epic of heroism, hardship and weapons-grade narcissism' The Times'A fabulous tale of ambition, …
Empire at the Edge of the World
Endurance and Madness in the High Arctic
Av Giles Milton
Häftad, 2027
152 kr
Kommande
One man's lust for empire sent fifteen people into the Arctic - only one came back.1913, the Arctic circle. Charismatic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson is obsessed with a frozen speck of land in the Siberian Arctic: Wrangel Island. Believing that whoever possesses it would control the future - air …
Empire at the Edge of the World
Endurance and Madness in the High Arctic
Av Giles Milton
E-bok, 2026
96 kr
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'Thrillingly compelling' Daily Telegraph'A compelling combination of betrayal, catastrophe, starvation, madness, mutiny, murder and revenge' Spectator 'Extraordinary ... An eye-opening, twist-filled epic of heroism, hardship and weapons-grade narcissism' The Times'A fabulous tale of ambition, …
War and Peace Trilogy
Av Giles Milton
E-bok, 2026
108 kr
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THE WAR AND PEACE TRILOGY BUNDLECombining three books by the million-copy bestselling author Giles Milton, the War and Peace Trilogy bundle offers a thrilling chronological account of the Second World War.'The master of narrative history' Sunday TimesBOOK 1: D-DAY: THE SOLDIER'S STORYThe definitive …
