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Robert Wilton

    Robert Wilton crafts compelling historical thrillers that skillfully intertwine suspenseful plots with profound ideas. Drawing on extensive archival research and personal experience in international affairs, his works offer captivating insights into history and human nature. Wilton's style is lauded for its intelligence, elegance, and ability to immerse readers in the narrative, establishing him as a significant voice in historical espionage fiction.

    Treason's Tide
    The Last Days of the Romanovs. How Tsar Nicholas II and Russia's Imperial Family Were Murdered
    The Spider of Sarajevo
    The Last Days of the Romanovs
    Traitor's Field
    The Last Days of the Romanovs
    • 2022

      A journey through two centuries of Balkan history in the company of eight inspiring women: pioneers and fighters in very diverse ways, they were determined to build lives for themselves, and in doing so they influenced the lives of others. Each was distinctive and distinguished and swam against the social current; and yet each was a representative of their land and their time, and has something to teach us about the realities for women in all countries and ages. Staka Skenderova (1831-1891) Bosnia-Herzegovina Maria Juric Zagorka (1873-1957) Croatia Xenia Petrovic-Njegos (1881-1960) Montenegro Maga Magazinovic (1882-1968) Serbia Margaret Hasluck (1885-1948) Albania Shote Galica (1895-1927) Kosovo Musine Kokalari (1917-1983) Albania Esma Redzepova (1943-2016) North Macedonia

      No Man's Lands: eight extraordinary women in Balkan history
    • 2022

      Russia's Agony

      • 436 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      Russia's Agony
    • 2019

      Death and the Dreadnought

      • 294 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      "London, 1910. Harry Delamere - adventurer, gambler, and broke - has agreed to a midnight meeting in the shipyard where Britain's newest battleship is being built. But all he finds is a man with a knife in his chest, and now Harry is wanted for murder. Not only are the police on his trail but other, more shadowy powers want him dead. Escaping arrest, Harry is hunted through the streets of the capital. Through a series of mysterious encounters and deadly clashes he uncovers a plot to steal valuable naval technology. Harry Delamere is determined to discover the truth, or - more likely - die trying. "--Publisher description

      Death and the Dreadnought
    • 2017

      Revolution, dissent and secret plotting - trouble is rife on the streets of eighteenth century Paris.

      Treason's Spring
    • 2014

      The Spider of Sarajevo

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading
      3.7(29)Add rating

      A novel of shadows, intrigue and manipulation in a Europe teetering on the brink of the Great War

      The Spider of Sarajevo
    • 2013

      The Last Days of the Romanovs

      • 338 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      This book offers a dramatic, accurate and complete account of the murder of Russia’s Imperial Family by the Communists in July 1918 at the height of the Russian Civil War which followed the Bolshevik seizure of power the previous year.

      The Last Days of the Romanovs
    • 2013

      The Last Days of the Romanovs

      The Murder of the Tsar & the Russian Royal Family, 1918

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Set against the backdrop of a crumbling empire, the narrative explores the intricate dynamics of power, betrayal, and legacy as a once-mighty dynasty faces its downfall. Characters navigate political intrigue and personal conflicts, revealing the fragility of authority and the human cost of ambition. Themes of loyalty and the quest for redemption intertwine as the story unfolds, highlighting the inevitable decline of greatness and the quest for identity in a changing world.

      The Last Days of the Romanovs
    • 2013

      Britain, 1805: Invasion and defeat by the Emperor Napoleon is imminent. An intense, imaginative and darkly atmospheric historical spy thriller - Patrick O'Brian meets John le Carre. 'A sparkling gem of a novel' - M C Scott

      Treason's Tide
    • 2013

      England has been torn apart by Civil War. Plots and intrigues abound - but it is the struggle between two powerful spies which will decide the eventual fate of a nation.

      Traitor's Field
    • 2005

      Robert Wilton (born in Russia, d.1922) collected documents about the assassination of the Russian royal family in Ekaterinburg was committed by the Bolsheviks and Germans, and he was the first to break this story and make it public in 1920. This book was compiled by journalist Chikovani, born in 1944 in Russia, emigrated to France in 1975. It a reprint of Wilton's book with his afterword; Chikovani's review of Edvard Radzinskii 's book "Nikolai Zhizn' I Smert"; several appendices. Among the appendices are documents from Wilton's archive on the history of the royal death, and the people involved in this crime. Profusely illustrated. Glossy paper. Also available on the same Sokolov, N.A. Ubiistvo Tsarskoi Sem' Iz Zapisok Sudebnogo Sledovatelia N.A. Sokolova (1998).

      Злодеяние над Царской семьей, совершенное большевиками и немцами