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Big Chief Elizabeth by Giles Milton
$19.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza -
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown that Shaped the Modern World by Giles Milton
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
'Brilliantly recapturing the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in the first four years after the Second World War, Giles Milton reminds us what an excellent story-teller he is' - Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny. Berlin was in ruins when Soviet forces fought their way towards the Re ...Show more
Checkmate in Berlin: The First Battle of the Cold War by Giles Milton
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II as it's never been told before BERLIN'S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE: the city, along with the rest of Germany, was to be carved up among the victorious powers-- th ...Show more
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton
$27.99 NZD
Category: Military 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
D-Day - The Soldiers' Story by Giles Milton
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
'Vivid, graphic and moving' Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 'It has a wonderful immediacy and vitality - living history in every sense' Anthony Horowitz 'Fantastic' Dan Snow 'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis 'Stirring and unsettling i ...Show more
D-Day: The Soldiers' Story by Giles Milton
$37.99 NZD
Category: Military 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
$30.00 NZD
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
Fascinating Footnotes from History by Giles Milton
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
'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 Times Did you know that Hitler took cocaine? That Stalin robbed a bank? That Charlie Chaplin's corpse was fil ...Show more
Russian Roulette: A Deadly Game: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Global Plot by Giles Milton
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
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
Russian Roulette: A Deadly Game: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Global Plot by Giles Milton
$29.99 NZD
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
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by Giles Milton
$39.99 NZD
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
Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War by Giles Milton
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A powerful story of a young man conscripted into Hitler's army and a family left behind, a sympathetic view of life from the other side. The Aichele 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 the time war cam ...Show more
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