Scott Miller's Blog: Let My Country Awake

A great review for Let My Country Awake. Publishers Weekly describes the book as a "propulsive account" that "brings to vivid life a little-known episode of WWI" and "a thrilling excavation of a forgotten revolutionary moment in American and world history."

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780...

Thanks, Julie!

Scott Miller’s LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE is an audacious work of history which explores a now mostly forgotten effort by a group of freedom fighters based out of UC Berkeley to liberate India from colonial rule. Spanning multiple continents, the story ignites with gun-smuggling, espionage, an explosive courtroom shootout -- complicating our understanding of the fallout to the colonial world order from World War I. This original and well-researched work is a powerful reminder that today’s immigration battles in the U.S. have long and tangled roots. LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE makes a profound contribution to our understanding of the early 20th century.

Julia Flynn Siler, New York Times bestselling author and journalist.

Hi everybody!

Just a quick heads up that I have a new book coming out in the fall. I'll post more details as they come available.In the meantime, here's the description as written by the publisher, and the goodreads link.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

On the eve of World War I, a band of Indian immigrants living in the United States hatched an audacious plan to liberate their homeland from British colonial rule. Founded by a group of student radicals at UC Berkeley, the Ghadar Movement mounted one of the most significant challenges to the British Raj before the rise of the Indian National Congress under Gandhi—but unlike the INC, the Ghadar Movement advocated for a violent insurrection against colonial rule. From its bases on the West Coast of the US and Canada, the movement recruited thousands of supporters via its underground newspaper and sent hundreds of freedom fighters across the Pacific in an attempt to smuggle guns and seditious literature into India—an effort abetted by spies working for the German government, who were keen to undermine a wartime adversary. All the while, the Ghadar Movement was tracked by Britain’s intelligence service, which eventually convinced the US government to crack down. The result was one of the most complex trials to date, culminating in a courtroom gun battle that shocked the nation. Scott Miller’s Let My Country Awake is the first book to tell the story of this overlooked moment in Indian, and American, history —one that offers a new perspective on anticolonial struggle in the twentieth century.

Scott discusses Agent 110 in this "History of World War II" podcast.

http://worldwariipodcast.net/2017/03/...

The Wall Street Journal published a terrific review of "Agent 110." They call it "lively and engrossing" with a "wonderful cast of characters."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/spymaste...

As I write this, Agent 110 is also the number two title on Amazon's list of "Hot New Releases" in World War II history.

Nice write up on "Agent 110" in the New York Daily News. They say: "It’s a story that sounds like a screenplay — but it’s all true."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/natio...

Hi everybody,
Audible.com has made a free sample of "Agent 110" available. Check it out here. The narrator did a terrific job.

https://soundcloud.com/audible/agent-110

Scott

Hi everybody,

My new book, Agent 110: An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII, goes on sale March 7 and is available for pre-order now.

I've been really happy with the early reviews.

The Booklist writes:

A “breath-catching narrative” with “wonderful details throughout," and adds that "(Miller) skillfully weaves a double narrative of Dulles’ machinations and those of the German resistance…”

And Kirkus Reviews says:

A “rapid-fire spy story” that is “entertaining for both its historical insights into WWII and its dramatic narrative.”

I'll be appearing in Washington, DC, Dallas and Seattle in early March. I'll keep you updated on the details.