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Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
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 bit as extraord ...Show more
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton
$49.50 AUD
Category: History
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 bit as extraordina ...Show more
D-Day: The Soldiers' Story by Giles Milton
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis Almost seventy-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 force ...Show more
Edward Trencom's Nose by Giles Milton
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 his f ...Show more
Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: Churchill's Mavericks: Plotting Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
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 of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was to prove every bit as e ...Show more
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History by Giles Milton
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This infuriated the Dutch, who were determined to cont ...Show more
Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance by Giles Milton
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
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 ...Show more
Russian Roulette: A Deadly Game: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Global Plot by Giles Milton
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'It reads like fiction, but it is, astonishingly, history' The Times In 1917, an eccentric band of British spies is smuggled into newly-Soviet Russia. Their goal? To defeat Lenin's plan to destroy British India and bring down the democracies of the West. These extraordinary spies, led by Mansfield Cum ...Show more
Russian Roulette: A Deadly Game: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Global Plot by Giles Milton
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
RUSSIAN ROULETTE tells the story of the first global plot and the British spies who were sent to thwart it. The Soviet plot was breathtaking in scale: its aim was to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor to toppling the democracies of the West. It was to bring together two deadly forces - Soviet ...Show more
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by Giles Milton
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'Terrific' 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' liberat ...Show more
White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European slaves by Giles Milton
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
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 ...Show more
Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War by Giles Milton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Allied bombers screamed in from the sea, spilling hundreds of shells onto the troops below. As the air filled with exploding shrapnel, one young German soldier flung himself into a ditch and prayed that his ordeal would soon be over. Wolfram Aichele was nine years old when Hitler came to power: his ...Show more
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