Giles Milton

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

Brilliantly written and completely absorbing, this is Miltons masterpiece ANTHONY HOROWITZBERLINS FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE.The city was to be carved up between the victorious powers - British, American, French and Soviet - with four all-powerful commandants ruling over their sectors. On paper, it seemed a pragmatic solution; in reality, it marked the start of a ferocious battle of wits. As relations between east and west broke down, these rival commandants fought a desperate battle for control. In doing so, they fired the starting gun for the Cold War. From Americas explosive Frank Howlin Mad Howley, a sharp-tongued colonel with a loathing for Russians, to his nemesis, Russias charmingly deceptive General Alexander Kotikov, CHECKMATE IN BERLIN tells the exhilarating, high-stakes story of kidnap, skullduggery, sabotage, murder and the greatest aerial operation in history. This is the epic story of the first battle of the Cold War and how it shaped the modern world.An excellent storyteller ANDREW ROBERTSA book full of heroesTHE TIMES

It reads like fiction, but it is, astonishingly, historyThe TimesIn 1917, an eccentric band of British spies is smuggled into newly-Soviet Russia. Their goal? To defeat Lenins plan to destroy British India and bring down the democracies of the West. These extraordinary spies, led by Mansfield Cumming, proved brilliantly successful. They found a wholly new way to deal with enemies, one that relied on espionage and dirty tricks rather than warfare. They were the unsung founders of todays modern, highly professional secret services. They were also the inspiration for fictional heroes to follow, from James Bond to Jason Bourne.

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 up in a disaster of truly epic proportions.PARADISE LOST is told with the narrative verve that has made Giles Milton a bestselling historian. It unfolds through the memories of the survivors, many of them interviewed for the first time, and the eyewitness accounts of those who found themselves caught up in one of the greatest catastrophes of the modern age.

Wolfram Aichele was nine years old when Hitler came to power: his formative years were spent in the shadow of the Third Reich. He and his parents - free-thinking artists - were to have first hand experience of living under one of the most brutal regimes in history. Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War overturns all the cliches about life under Hitler. It is a powerful story of warfare and human survival and a reminder that civilians on all sides suffered the consequences of Hitlers war. It is also an eloquent testimony to the fact that even in times of exceptional darkness there remains a brilliant spark of humanity that can never be totally extinguished.

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, Manteo, whose tattooed face had enthralled Elizabethan London. Now Manteo was returned to his homeland as Lord and Governor. Raleghs gamble would result in the first English settlement in the New World, but it would also lead to a riddle whose solution lay hidden in the forests of Virginia.A tale of heroism and mystery, Big Chief Elizabeth is illuminated by first-hand accounts to reveal a remarkable and long-forgotten story.