Giles Milton

Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan.In 1611, London's merchants received an intriguing letter written by a marooned English mariner named William Adams, who had been living in the unknown land of Japan for more than a decade. Seven adventurers were sent to Japan with orders to find and befriend Adams. It was believed he held the key to exploiting the opulent riches of this forbidden country; but when they arrived they discovered that William Adams had gone native.

Edward Trencom ha ido dando tumbos por la vida, confiando en su infalible nariz para convertir la tienda familiar en la más célebre fromagerie de Inglaterra. La suya no es una nariz corriente, sino una nariz larga, aguileña y provista de un característico abultamiento redondeado sobre el puente: la misma nariz que ostentan todos los hombres de la familia Trencom. Un buen día, Edward tropieza con un cajón lleno de papeles viejos y su vida se vuelve del revés. Descubre espantado que nueve generaciones de su familia han conocido finales trágicos por culpa de sus narices. Cuando se pone a investigar, se ve envuelto en un enigma bizantino sin aparente solución. Y como sus infortunados antecesores, es perseguido por fuerzas hostiles cuya identidad y propósito son un completo misterio.

From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies secret mission to wartime Moscow

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 tale.Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing, little known chapter of history. Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco who was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. As his personal slave, he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of the imperial court, as well as experience the daily terror of a cruel regime.Gripping, immaculately researched, and brilliantly realised, WHITE GOLD reveals an explosive chapter of popular history, told with all the pace and verve of one of our finest historians.

Giles Milton is a man who can take an event from history and make it come alive . . . an inspiration for those of us who believe that history can be exciting and entertaining Matthew Redhead, The TimesDid you know that Hitler took cocaine? That Stalin robbed a bank? That Charlie Chaplins corpse was filched and held to ransom? Giles Milton is a master of historical narrative: in his characteristically engaging prose, Fascinating Footnotes From History details one hundred of the quirkiest historical nuggets; eye-stretching stories that read like fiction but are one hundred per cent fact.There is Hiroo Onoda, the lone Japanese soldier still fighting the Second World War in 1974; Agatha Christie, who mysteriously disappeared for eleven days in 1926; and Werner Franz, a cabin boy on the Hindenburg who lived to tell the tale when it was engulfed in flames in 1937. Fascinating Footnotes From History also answers who ate the last dodo, who really killed Rasputin and why Sergeant Stubby had four legs. Peopled with a gallery of spies, rogues, cannibals, adventurers and slaves, and spanning twenty centuries and six continents, Giles Miltons impeccably researched footnotes shed light on some of the most infamous stories and most flamboyant and colourful characters (and animals) from history.(Previoulsy published in four individual epub volumes: When Hitler Took Cocaine, When Stalin Robbed a Bank, When Lenin Lost His Brain and When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep.)

Edward Trencom ha ido dando tumbos por la vida, confiando en su infalible nariz para convertir la tienda familiar en la más célebre fromagerie de Inglaterra. La suya no es una nariz corriente, sino una nariz larga, aguileña y provista de un caracteristico abultamiento redondeado sobre el puente: la misma nariz que ostentan todos los hombres de la familia Trencom. Un buen dia, Edward tropieza con un cajon lleno de papeles viejos y su vida se vuelve del reves. Descubre espantado que nueve generaciones de su familia han cono-cido finales tragicos por culpa de sus narices. Cuando se pone a investigar, se ve envuelto en un enigma bizantino sin apa-rente solucion. Y como sus infortunados antecesores, es perseguido por fuerzas hostiles cuya identidad y proposito son un completo misterio.

Les presentamos a Arnold Trevellyan: carismático, entusiasta y, en cierto modo, extraño. Su pasión por las setas solo se iguala al amor que siente por Flora, su esposa durante doce años. Un buen día, buscando setas, Arnold hace un hallazgo sorprendente que trastocara todo su mundo. Abandona a Flora y pone rumbo al Pacifico sur, donde acaba casandose con la reina de una remota isla tropical.Sin embargo, no todo es lo que parece en el idilico reino de Arnold. En una serie de casetes remitidas a su mejor amigo, confiesa hallarse atrapado en una conspiracion internacional en la que las setas contienen la clave de la vida y la muerte.

Les presentamos a Arnold Trevellyan: carismático, entusiasta y, en cierto modo, extraño. Su pasión por las setas solo se iguala al amor que siente por Flora, su esposa durante doce años. Un buen día, buscando setas, Arnold hace un hallazgo sorprendente que trastocara todo su mundo. Abandona a Flora y pone rumbo al Pacifico sur, donde acaba casandose con la reina de una remota isla tropical.Sin embargo, no todo es lo que parece en el idilico reino de Arnold. En una serie de casetes remitidas a su mejor amigo, confiesa hallarse atrapado en una conspiracion internacional en la que las setas contienen la clave de la vida y la muerte.

Vivid, graphic and movingMail on Sunday Book of the YearIt has a wonderful immediacy and vitality - living history in every sense Anthony HorowitzFantastic Dan SnowCompellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour deforce Damien LewisStirring and unsettling in equal measure, this is history writing at its most powerfulEvening StandardSeventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the day of the greatest seaborne invasion in history.The outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance on that chill June morning. If Allied forces succeeded in gaining a foothold in northern France, the road to victory would be open. But if the Allies could be driven back into the sea, the invasion would be stalled for years, perhaps forever.An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured vehicles, the desperate struggle that unfolded on 6 June 1944 was, above all, a story of individual heroics - of men who were driven to keep fighting until the German defences were smashed and the precarious beachheads secured. Their authentic human story - Allied, German, French - has never fully been told.Giles Miltons bold new history narrates the days events through the tales of survivors from all sides: the teenage Allied conscript, the crack German defender, the French resistance fighter. From the military architects at Supreme Headquarters to the young schoolboy in the Wehrmachts bunkers, D-Day: The Soldiers Story lays bare the absolute terror of those trapped in the frontline of Operation Overlord. It also gives voice to those hitherto unheard - the French butchers daughter, the Panzer Commanders wife, the chauffeur to the General Staff.This vast canvas of human bravado reveals the longest day as never before - less as a masterpiece of strategic planning than a day on which thousands of scared young men found themselves staring death in the face. It is drawn in its entirety from the raw, unvarnished experiences of those who were there.

The story of an early-17th-century English adventurer who, after having been marooned in Japan, gained the confidence of the Shogun court and was instrumental in fostering trade and cultural relations between Japan and the West. Historian Gile Morton recreates the world of the court and the clash of cultures brought on by the arrival of the English, the Dutch, the Spanish, as well as the Jesuits.

In 1586, Queen Elizabeth I was enthralled by captive American Indian Manteo. Manteo was returned to his homeland as Governor, a gamble that resulted in the first English settlement in the New World. Using first-hand accounts, this book tells a story that was to have an extraordinary twist.

In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-two of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs. Their captors - fanatical Islamic slave traders - had declared war on the whole of Christendom. Thousands of Europeans had been snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of Algiers, Tunis and Sale in Morocco to be sold to the highest bidder.Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco, who bragged that his white slaves enabled him to hold all of Europe to ransom. The sultan was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. Thomas Pellow was selected to be a personal slave of the sultan, and he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of the imperial Moroccan court, as well as experience daily terror. For twenty-three years, he would dream of his home, his family and freedom. He was one of the fortunate few who survived to tell his tale.

En el verano de 1716, la tripulación del buque chico Thomas Pellow, junto con 52 compañeros en manos de traficantes de esclavos árabes y piratas. Él es buscado por el Sultán de Marruecos y ahora han comprado experimentado 23 años como un esclavo a su patio de esplendor y lujo, así como todos los días Grausamkeit.07In el verano de 1716, un córnico grumete llamado Thomas Pellow y 52 de sus camaradas fueron capturados en el mar por el Barbary Corsair. Miles de europeos han sido arrebatados de sus hogares y adoptadas en las grandes cadenas de mercados de esclavos de Argel, Túnez y Marruecos en venta para ser vendidos al mejor postor.

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 Milton is a phenomenon DAN SNOW Another rollercoaster ride from Giles Milton Endlessly surprising ANTHONY HOROWITZ From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies secret mission to wartime Moscow In the summer of 1941 as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union Stalin s forces faced a catastrophic defeat which would make the Allies liberation of Europe virtually impossible To avert this disaster Britain and America mobilized an elite team of remarkable diplomats with the mission of keeping the Red Army in the war Into to the heart of Stalin s Moscow Roosevelt sent Averell Harriman the fourth richest man in America and his brilliant young daughter Kathy Churchill dispatched the reckless but brilliant bon vivant Archie Clark Kerr and occasionally himself to negotiate with the Kremlin s wiliest operators Together this improbable group grappled with the ingenious mercurial Stalin to make victory possib

A notável história verídica da missão secreta dos Aliados na Moscovo em tempo de guerra.No verão de 1941, quando Hitler invadiu a União Soviética, as forças de Estaline enfrentaram a possibilidade de

A história do dia mais longo, contada por aqueles que o viveram.O mundo mudou na fria manhã do dia 6 de junho de 1944, quando 156 mil homens, 7 mil navios e 20 mil veículos blindados partiram rumo à