Giles Milton

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Hugely enjoyable' The Spectator, Books of the Year 'Delivered with flamboyance, it features a sparkling cast of…

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…

'Brilliantly written and completely absorbing, this is Milton's masterpiece' ANTHONY HOROWITZ BERLIN'S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE. The city was to be…

'Vivid, graphic and moving' Mail on Sunday Book of the Year JUNE 1944: THE DAY OF THE GREATEST SEABORNE INVASION IN HISTORY. The outcome of…

'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.…

'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,…

'Giles Milton is a man who can take an event from history and make it come alive . . . an inspiration for those of…

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…

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…

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…

In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big…

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…

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…