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—and most overlooked—stories 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 of Samurai William in the London Library, where he loves the "huge reading room, large Victorian desks and creaking armchairs". At home and while traveling, he is ever on the lookout for new untold stories. Apparently he began researching the life of Sir John Mandeville for his book The Riddle and the Knight after Mandeville’s book Travels "literally fell off the shelf of a Paris bookstore" in which he was browsing. Copyright BookBrowse.com 2007
Series
Books
Good Luck Baby Owls
2012
Samurai William
The Englishman Who Opened Japan
2002
Call Me Gorgeous!
2009
D-Day
The Soldiers' Story
2018
Fascinating Footnotes from History
2015
White Gold
2004
Paradise Lost
Smyrna, 1922
2008
When Stalin Robbed a Bank
Fascinating Footnotes from History
2014
Edward Trencom's Nose
A Novel of History, Dark Intrigue, and Cheese
2007
Russian Roulette
How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution
2013
According to Arnold
A Novel of Love and Mushrooms
2009
Checkmate in Berlin
The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
2021
When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank
History's Unknown Chapters
2016
Nathaniel's Nutmeg
How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
1999
The Perfect Corpse
2014
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
2016
When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain
History's Unknown Chapters
2016
When Hitler Took Cocaine
Fascinating Footnotes from History
2014
When Lenin Lost his Brain
Fascinating Footnotes from History
2015
Big Chief Elizabeth
The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
2000
The Stalin Affair
The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
2024
The Boy Who Went to War
The Story of a Reluctant German Soldier in WWII
2011
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die
How the Allies Won on D-Day
2019
The Riddle and the Knight
In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler
1996
