Автор: Giles Milton Название: Russian Roulette: A Deadly Game: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin`s Global Plot ISBN: 1444737023 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781444737028 Издательство: Hodder Цена: 20240.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: RUSSIAN ROULETTE tells the story of the first global plot and the British spies who were sent to thwart it.
The Soviet plot was breathtaking in scale: its aim was to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor to toppling the democracies of the West. It was to bring together two deadly forces - Soviet revolutionaries and Islamic jihadis - to form a highly toxic threat.
Unbeknownst to Moscow, a small band of British spies had been secretly smuggled into Russia in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution. They were an unlikely group of men: self taught and highly educated. Their boss was endearingly eccentric. Mansfield Cumming was a monocled, one-legged sea captain with a passion for secret inks and homemade explosives. Cumming gave his agents free range to do whatever they wanted once they were inside Soviet Russia: 'Just don't get yourself killed,' was his only injunction.
The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the Indonesian archipelago. Just two miles long and half a mile wide, it is remote, tranquil, and, these days, largely ignored. Yet 370 years ago, Run's harvest of nutmeg (a pound of which yielded a 3,200 percent profit by the time it arrived in England) turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a battle between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and the British Crown. The outcome of the fighting was one of the most spectacular deals in history: Britain ceded Run to Holland but in return was given Manhattan. This led not only to the birth of New York but also to the beginning of the British Empire. Such a deal was due to the persistence of one man. Nathaniel Courthope and his small band of adventurers were sent to Run in October 1616, and for four years held off the massive Dutch navy. Nathaniel's Nutmeg centers on the remarkable showdown between Courthope and the Dutch Governor General Jan Coen, and the brutal fate of the mariners racing to Run-and the other corners of the globe-to reap the huge profits of the spice trade. Written with the flair of a historical sea novel but based on rigorous research, Giles Milton's Nathaniel's Nutmeg is a brilliant adventure story by a writer who has been hailed as the new Bruce Chatwin (Mail on Sunday).
Автор: Milton, Giles Название: Big chief elizabeth ISBN: 0340748826 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780340748824 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 13150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Bestselling author of NATHANIEL`S NUTMEG, Giles Milton takes us on another fascinating and extraordinary historical adventure.
Автор: Milton, Giles Название: White gold ISBN: 0340794704 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780340794708 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 13150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Rich in historical insight and told in a dramatic and engaging voice, this is a superb evocation of the period with a series character to rival Sharpe.
Автор: Milton, Giles Название: Nathaniel`s nutmeg ISBN: 0340696761 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780340696767 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 15170.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The extraordinary adventure-filled story of how England came to own Manhattan in the seventeenth century
Автор: Milton Giles Название: Russian Roulette: A Deadly Game: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin`s Global Plot ISBN: 144473704X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781444737042 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 13150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: 1917, post-Russian Revolution, an unlikely and eccentric band of British spies are smuggled into newly Soviet Russia to thwart Lenin`s plan to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor to toppling the democracies of the West. The spies, under Mansfield Cumming, were the unsung founders of the present-day MI6.
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