Milton also fails to cite other historians working in this area (a prime example being Linda Colley). Pellow's sensational tale dominates the book, and though rendered in seductively poised prose, in the end it feels short on ideas and argument. Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing, little known chapter of history. White gold Milton, Giles Little, Brown 9780340794708 : : Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of. Milton includes Pellow's years as a soldier in Moulay Ismail's army and draws out his cliff-hanging escape back to England. As a pragmatic convert to Islam, Pellow fared better, earning a wife who bore him a daughter. Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day. Put into forced labor and appalling living conditions, they perished in huge numbers. See all books authored by Giles Milton, including Churchills Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitlers Defeat, and Nathaniels Nutmeg, and more on. Placing Pellow's tale within wider horizons, Milton describes how, during the 17th and 18th centuries, thousands of European captives were snatched from their coastal villages by Islamic slave traders intent on waging war on Christendom. Pellow remained in Morocco for more than 20 years, his family barely recognizing him when he at last escaped home. For this harrowing story of white captives in 18th-century Morocco, Milton (author of the highly praised Nathaniel's Nutmeg) draws primarily on the memoir of a Cornish cabin boy, Thomas Pellow, who was taken by Islamic pirates in 1716 and sold as a slave to the legendarily tyrannical Sultan Moulay Ismail.
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