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In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II--a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin's communist revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a global revolt that would topple all Western capitalist regimes--starting with the British Empire. Russian Roulette tells the spectacular and harrowing story of the British spies in revolutionary Russia and their mission to stop Lenin's red tide from washing across the free world. They were an eccentric cast of characters, led by Mansfield Cumming, a one-legged, monocle-wearing former sea captain, and included novelist W. Somerset Maugham, beloved children's author Arthur Ransome, and the dashing, ice-cool Sidney Reilly, the legendary Ace of Spies and a model for Ian Fleming's James Bond.



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Giles Milton

Visit www.gilesmilton.com 'The master of narrative history' - Sunday Times.Giles Milton is an internationally best-selling author of narrative non-fiction. His forthcoming book (27 May 2021) is Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World. Previous books include D-Day: The Soldiers' Story and Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which was a Sunday Times best-seller. Other titles include Nathaniel's Nutmeg - serialised by the BBC - and seven other critically acclaimed works of history. Giles lives in London with his wife, the illustrator Alexandra Milton, and three daughters.



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