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Giles Milton is a writer and historian. He is the internationally bestselling author of eleven books including Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, White Gold, Samurai William, Paradise Lost, Russian Roulette, D-Day:The Soldier’s Story and Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. He has also written three novels and three children’s books. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in London.
Sir Barney White-Spunner is a former British regular soldier whose military career culminated as Commander of the British Field Army. He has led British and Multinational forces in a wide variety of countries, particularly in the Middle East and most recently in Iraq and Afghanistan. From 2012 to 2016 he was Executive Chairman of The Countryside Alliance, the organisation that campaigns to promote and protect all those who live and work in the British countryside. He now runs Burstock, the strategic consultancy business he founded in 2016.
He has written extensively on rural affairs and military history. Knighted in 2011, he is also an Honorary Legionnaire in the French Foreign Legion, a member of the United States Order of Merit and he holds the Knight’s Cross of Hungary. Married, with three children, he lives in West Dorset. His publications include Horse Guards (2006), the story of the British Household Cavalry; Of Living Valour (2015), the story of the British soldiers at Waterloo and Partition (2017), an account of Indian Independence and the birth of Pakistan which is an international best seller. His latest book, Berlin: The Story of a City was born of a life-long love of, and fascination for, this extraordinary city and has now been published worldwide.