Giles Milton: 22 books
by Giles Milton
Language: French
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Soixante-quinze ans ont passé depuis le débarquement de Normandie, la plus grande offensive par la mer de l’histoire de l’humanité. Ce jour-là, le 6 juin 1944, l’issue de la guerre s’est trouvée suspendue à un fil, car le succès ou l’échec de l’opération colossale du Débarquement...
Edward Trencom's Nose
A Novel of History, Dark Intrigue, and Cheese
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Situated on London's Foster Lane, there is a quintessentially Georgian, redbrick house with a green door bearing the sign trencoms, 1662. It's the home of the Trencom family's cheese store, a generational establishment begun by Humphrey Trencom that now, 303 years later, is run by Edward Trencom....
When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain
History's Unknown Chapters
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
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...
The Riddle and the Knight
In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Part travelogue/part historical mystery about the most famous traveler--and chronicler-- in medieval Europe.
Giles Milton's first book, The Riddle and the Knight, is a fascinating account of the legend of Sir John Mandeville, a long-forgotten knight who was once the most famous writer in medieval...
Samouraï William
L'Anglais qui rompit l'isolement du Japon
Language: French
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Le 12 avril 1600 s’échouait sur une petite plage du sud du Japon, après un rude voyage de deux ans à travers deux océans et le terrible détroit de Magellan, un navire hollandais en piteux état, piloté par William Adams, premier Anglais à fouler la terre inconnue de ce pays mythique.
Avec...
Nathaniel's Nutmeg
or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
A true tale of high adventure in the South Seas.
The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the Indonesian archipelago. Just two miles long and half a mile wide, it is remote, tranquil, and, these days, largely ignored.
Yet 370 years ago, Run's harvest of nutmeg (a pound of...
When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank
History's Unknown Chapters
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
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...
by Giles Milton
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
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 not only naked, but in an absolutely pristine state.
As Jack unravels the mystery of Ferris Clark’s final hours, he uncovers...
Le Paradis perdu
1922, la destruction de Smyrne la tolérante
Language: French
Release Date: October 23, 2014
« Imaginez la projection constante de gigantesques boules incandescentes dans un ciel chauffé au rouge, des nappes de pétrole en combustion sur la mer Égée, l’air empuanti par une odeur nauséabonde, pendant que des nuages étouffants, des cendres et des étincelles passent au-dessus de nous...
by Giles Milton
Language: French
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Un corps sans vie, nu et sans la plus petite trace de blessure, est retrouvé au Groenland, au beau milieu de la banquise. Qui est-il ? Jack Raven, paléontologue et spécialiste d’anthropologie médico-légale, est chargé de mener l’enquête. Au fil de ses recherches, il découvre d’étranges...
The Boy Who Went to War
The Story of a Reluctant German Soldier in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
A powerful and true story of warfare and human survival that exposes a side of World War II that is unknown by many— this is the story of Wolfram Aïchele, a boy whose childhood was stolen by a war in which he had no choice but to fight.
Giles Milton has been a writer and historian for many...
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine
In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage.
The guerrilla campaign that followed was every...
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die
How the Allies Won on D-Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied – and Axis – forces.
An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured vehicles, D-Day was, above all,...
Paradise Lost
The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
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...
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