Giles Milton Livres

Soixante-quinze ans après le débarquement de Normandie, le 6 juin 1944, l'issue de la guerre était suspendue à un fil. Le succès ou l'échec de cette opération colossale aurait déterminé la victoire alliée. Giles Milton raconte l'histoire des soldats, souvent très jeunes, qui ont combattu pour mettre fin à la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il évoque le jour J à travers les récits des survivants : le conscrit allié, le défenseur allemand, le résistant français, et les civils de Normandie. De la stratégie des forces alliées aux soldats de la Wehrmacht dans les bunkers, l'ouvrage décrit la terreur de ceux pris au piège de l'opération Overlord. Milton donne la parole à des voix inédites : la fille du boucher, la femme du commandant de panzer, le chauffeur du général, tous protagonistes de cette bataille monstrueuse. Ce récit magistral est salué pour son humanité commune, et sa profondeur. Milton, né en 1966, est un spécialiste de l’histoire des voyages et a publié plusieurs ouvrages de non-fiction, dont plusieurs traduits en français. Il vit à Londres.

The incredible story of the secret underground operations of the Second World War.

Call Me Gorgeous! is a fun, stylish book about a very, very strange creature. It has a porcupine's spines and a crocodile's teeth, a chameleon's tail and a cockerel's feet. What on earth could it be? Uncover this mysterious and fabulous beastthrough Alexandra Milton's stunning collage.

A powerful tale of destruction, heroism and survival. Tells the largely untold story of the most dramatic and horrific events of the 20th century, the Burning of Smyrna.

Recounts the extraordinary and thrilling story of the British spies in revolutionary Russia, led by Mansfield Cumming, who would one day pioneer the field of covert action and become MI6, and their mission to foil Lenin's plot for global revolution. 40,000 first printing.

In 1586, Queen Elizabeth I was enthralled by captive American Indian Manteo. Manteo was returned to his homeland as Governor, a gamble that resulted in the first English settlement in the New World. Using first-hand accounts, this book tells a story that was to have an extraordinary twist.

The extraordinary adventure-filled story of how England came to own Manhattan in the seventeenth century

On an ordinary winter's 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 one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of ships bound for Asia, and he had washed up in the forbidden land of Japan. The traders in London were even more astonished to learn that, rather than be horrified by the strange customs, Adams had fallen in love with the barbaric splendour of the country - and had decided to settle. He had forged a close friendship with the ruthless Shogun Ieyasu, taken a Japanese wife and sired a new, mixed-blood family. Adams' letter was the spark that fired up the merchants in London to plan a new expedition to the Far East, with designs to trade with the Japanese and use Adams' contacts there to forge new commercial links. SAMURAI WILLIAM illuminates a world whose horizons were rapidly expanding - eastwards.