most of the most spectacular acts of sabotage of the Second World War. Their missions included Operation Josephine B, Operation Postmaster, Operation Chariot, Operation Anthropoid, Operation Gunnerside, the destruction of the Peugeot factory at Sochaux and many smaller missions conducted in the weeks prior to the Normandy landings. Their work was hailed by General Dwight D. Eisenhower as playing "a very considerable part in our complete and final victory". Fascinating Footnotes From History Fascinating Footnotes From History is Milton's ninth narrative history book. Published in 2015 in the UK, it is a collection of little-known stories from world history previously published as 4 e-books (When Hitler Took Cocaine, When Stalin Robbed a Bank, When Lenin Lost His Brain, and When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep). The true stories come from Milton's own research and include topics like Adolf Hitler's cocaine use, criminal experience of Joseph Stalin, assassination of Grigori Rasputin and different information about Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin, Agatha Christie and other 20th century famous people. The book is only available in the United States as 2 separate volumes: When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History's Unknown Chapters and When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed A Bank. Russian Roulette Russian Roulette is Milton's eighth work of narrative history. It is an historical account of a small group of British spies smuggled into Soviet Russia in the aftermath of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. The spies were sent to Russia by Mansfield Cumming, the first director of the Secret Intelligence Service. The aim was to thwart Lenin's Bolshevik-Islamic plot to topple British India and, ultimately, the Western democracies. The spies included Sidney Reilly, Arthur Ransome, George Hill, Somerset Maugham, Paul Dukes and Augustus Agar. They worked undercover and in disguise, operating out of Moscow and Petrograd. A second group of British agents was simultaneously sent into Central Asia (notably Tashkent). Frederick Bailey and Wilfrid Malleson were employed by Indian Political Intelligence, a body working closely with the Secret Intelligence Service. In the period between 1918 and 1921 the spies in Moscow infiltrated Soviet commissariats, the Red Army and Cheka (secret police). They were variously involved in murder, deception and duplicity and, together with the British diplomat Robert Bruce Lockhart, were also implicated in a botched attempt to assassinate Lenin. The spies in Tashkent and Kashgar saw themselves as playing the final chapter of the Great Game, the struggle for political