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Berlin Année zero

Florence Hertz Gates , Giles Milton

Berlin, 1945. Le destin de la capitale allemande a été scellé en février, durant la conférence de Yalta : les puissances victorieuses États-Unis, Grande-Bretagne, France et Union soviétique divisent les ruines en quatre zones doccupation. Sur le papier, cela semblait...

D-Day : Les soldats du Débarquement

Giles Milton

Soixante-quinze ans ont passé depuis le débarquement de Normandie, la plus grande offensive par la mer de l’histoire de l’humanité. Ce jour-là, le 6 juin 1944, l’issue de la guerre s’est trouvée suspendue à un fil, car le succès ou l’échec de l’opération colossale du...

Les saboteurs de l'ombre. La guerre secrète de Churchill contre Hitler

Giles Milton

Au printemps 1939, une organisation très discrète est fondée à Londres, surnommée "l’armée secrète de Churchill" : elle a pour objectif de détruire la machine de guerre d’Hitler, au moyen d’actes de sabotage spectaculaires. Les opérations de guérilla qui devaient...

Le cadavre était presque parfait

Giles Milton

Un corps sans vie, nu et sans la plus petite trace de blessure, est retrouvé au Groenland, au beau milieu de la banquise. Qui est-il ? Jack Raven, paléontologue et spécialiste d’anthropologie médico-légale, est chargé de mener l’enquête. Au fil de ses recherches, il...

Le paradis perdu

Giles Milton

"Imaginez la projection constante de gigantesques boules incandescentes dans un ciel chauffé au rouge, des nappes de pétrole en combustion sur la mer Égée, l’air empuanti par une odeur nauséabonde, pendant que des nuages étouffants, des cendres et des étincelles passent...

Samouraï William

Giles Milton

Le 12 avril 1600 s’échouait sur une petite plage du sud du Japon, après un rude voyage de deux ans à travers deux océans et le terrible détroit de Magellan, un navire hollandais en piteux état, piloté par William Adams, premier Anglais à fouler la terre inconnue de ce...

La guerre de la noix muscade

Giles Milton

Qui peut imaginer aujourd'hui la valeur fabuleuse que représentait la petite noix muscade à la fin du XVIe siècle ? Giles Milton brode autour de la chasse aux épices une fabuleuse histoire des grands navigateurs et marchands du XVIIe siècle. Les fastes orientaux,...

The Stalin Affair

Giles Milton

Checkmate in Berlin

Giles Milton

'Brilliantly written and completely absorbing, this is Milton's masterpiece' ANTHONY HOROWITZBERLIN'S 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...

D-Day

Giles Milton

'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 deforce' Damien...

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Giles Milton

'A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it!' Anthony HorowitzSix gentlemen, one goal - the destruction of Hitler's war machineIn the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine...

Fascinating Footnotes From History

Giles Milton

'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?...

When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep

Giles Milton

In this marvellous collection of fascinating footnotes, Giles Milton delves into little-known stories from history. Covering everything from adventure, war, murder and slavery to espionage, including the stories of the last secret of the Cold War, the man who broke into...

When Lenin Lost his Brain

Giles Milton

In this marvellous collection of fascinating footnotes, Giles Milton delves into the little-known stories from history. Covering everything from adventure, war, murder and slavery to espionage, including the stories of the female Robinson Crusoe, Hitler's final hours,...

When Hitler Took Cocaine

Giles Milton

In this marvellous collection of fascinating footnotes, Giles Milton delves into the little-known stories from history. Covering everything from adventure, war, murder and slavery to espionage, including the stories of the real war horse, who killed Rasputin, Agatha...

Russian Roulette

Giles Milton

'It reads like fiction, but it is, astonishingly, history' The TimesIn 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...

The Riddle and the Knight

Giles Milton

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 India, China, Java, Sumatra and Borneo as well.His book about that voyage, THE TRAVELS, was heralded as the most...

White Gold

Giles Milton

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...

Nathaniel's Nutmeg

Giles Milton

'To write a book that makes the reader sit in a trance, lost in his passionate desire to pack a suitcase and go to the fabulous place - that, in the end, is something one would give a sack of nutmeg for' Philip Hensher, The SpectatorIn 1616, an English adventurer,...

Big Chief Elizabeth

Giles Milton

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...