Giles Milton (Author of Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare)

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Giles Milton

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in Buckinghamshire, The United Kingdom

January 01, 1966

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British writer and journalist Giles Milton was born in Buckinghamshire in 1966. He has contributed articles for most of the British national newspapers as well as many foreign publications, and specializes in the history of travel and exploration. In the course of his researches, he has traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East, Japan and the Far East, and the Americas.

Knowledgeable, insatiably curious and entertaining, Milton locates history's most fascinating鈥攁nd most overlooked鈥攕tories and brings them to life in his books.

He lives in London, where he is a member of the Hakluyt Society, which is dedicated to reprinting the works of explorers and adventurers in scholarly editions, some of which he uses in his research. He wrote most ...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 28,965 ratings · 3,343 reviews · 43 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat 4.36 avg rating — 7,276 ratings — published 2016 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History 3.83 avg rating — 5,175 ratings — published 1999 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History's Unknown Chapters 3.66 avg rating — 3,191 ratings — published 2016 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan 3.92 avg rating — 2,085 ratings — published 2002 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves 4.12 avg rating — 1,567 ratings — published 2004 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World 4.42 avg rating — 1,437 ratings — published 2021 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day 4.35 avg rating — 1,105 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America 4.03 avg rating — 1,025 ratings — published 2000 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922 4.25 avg rating — 888 ratings — published 2008 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank: History's Unknown Chapters 3.86 avg rating — 810 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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History's Unknown Chapters (2 books)
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围伪渭苇谓慰蟼蟺伪蟻维未蔚喂蟽慰蟼: 危渭蠉蟻谓畏, 1922 (2 books)
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“The local natives were particularly curious to know why the English required such huge quantities of pepper and there was much scratching of heads until it was finally agreed that English houses were so cold that the walls were plastered with crushed pepper in order to produce heat.”
― Giles Milton, Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History

tags: black-pepper, england, humorous-quotes, spice-islands, spices

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“In the Banda Islands, ten pounds of nutmeg cost less than one English penny. In London, that same spice sold for more than 拢2.10s. 鈥� a mark-up of a staggering 60,000 per cent. A small sackful was enough to set a man up for life, buying him a gabled dwelling in Holborn and a servant to attend to his needs”
― Giles Milton, Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History

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“He was the first to admit that he had been singularly ill-qualified for all his previous jobs. Just a few months earlier, he had accepted the editorship of Gardening Magazine. 鈥楴obody could know less about gardening than me,鈥� he said. But it didn't stop him dispensing advice for his readers. 鈥業 would solemnly give them my views on whether it were better to plant globe artichokes in September or March.鈥�18 Now, at last, he had fallen into a job for which he was extremely well qualified, one in which the only seeds to be planted were those of wholescale destruction.”
― Giles Milton, Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

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