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Russian roulette russian roulette is milton s eighth work of narrative history. How british spies thwarted lenins plot for global revolution by giles milton overview in 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the winter palace of tsar nicholas iia dramatic and explosive act marking that vladimir lenins communist revolution was now underway. His books have been translated into twenty languages. In when churchill slaughtered sheep and stalin robbed a bank, the second installment in his outrageously entertaining series, historys unknown chapters, giles milton shows his customary historical flair as he delves into the littleknown stories from history, like when stalin was actually assassinated with poison by one of his inner circle. How british spies defeated lenin by milton, giles isbn.
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