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Russian Roulette: A Deadly Game: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Global Plot by Giles Milton
31.99 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
Samurai William by Giles Milton
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
By the bestselling author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg and Big Chief Elizabeth. In the winter of 1611, a mysterious letter was received by the London merchants of the East India Company. The fact that it came from Japan, a forbidden and unknown land, was a cause of wonder, but even more remarkable was that the ...Show more
Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan by Giles Milton
29.99 NZD
Category: History
On an ordinary winterâs day in London, 1611, a mysterious letter arrived at the offices of the East India Trading Company. It had taken some seven years for the letter to make its tortuous way to England and the merchants there were astounded by its contents⦠William Adams, an Englishman, had been o ...Show more
The Riddle and the Knight : In Search of Sir John Mandeville by Giles Milton
29.99 NZD
34.95 (14% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
His book about that voyage, The Travels, was heralded as the most important book of the Middles Ages as Mandeville claimed his voyage proved it was possible to circumnavigate the globe. In the nineteenth century sceptics questioned his voyage, they even doubted he had left England. The Riddle and The Kn ...Show more
White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European slaves by Giles Milton
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Fiction
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
White Gold : the extraordinary story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's one million European slaves by Giles Milton
39.99 NZD
44.95 (11% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Giles Milton can take an event from history and make it come alive. He has a genius for lively prose, and an appreciation for historical credibility. He has crafted an inspiration for those of us who believe that history can be exciting and entertaining. - The Times In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabi ...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
Zebedee's Zoo by Giles Milton
34.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books
The animals in Zebedee's Zoo may not seem a very lively bunch, but at the end of the day, everything changes ...suddenly it's party time at the animal park! Riotous animal fun abounds in this brilliant book that begs to be read aloud time and time again.