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{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Woolf -->Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. He has chosen to tell us about the short, but explosive, history of the Control Data Company, CDC, for whom he worked. It's a fascinating tale, told in a mixture of technological summary and wry anecdote. }}{{Frontpage|-author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Fritz and Kurt[[image:Woolf_Great.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985880?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985880]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Confident Readers|summary===[[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales We start with the pair of Exploration by Jo Woolf]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]]brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into being dutiful when it comes to the lives synagogue choir and achievements of some amazingly brave peopleat a vocational school. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of Kurt has to make sure the mysteries of lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the wildest parts of our world, Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and also given us an understanding of what it workmanlike as a light switch. But this is like to be faced with the most terrible conditions and still have time just before the determination and grit Austrian leader is going to carry on. This book could be viewed as a taster which encourages us cave to seek out Hitler's will, and read more about some instead of having a national vote to keep the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does Nazis out, invite them justicein with open arms. [[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Exploration by Jo Woolf|Full Review]] <!-- Hailstone -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hailstone_BerlinJews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|isbn=1445672901]]024156574X}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"John Henry Phillips|=title=The Search|rating=[[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone]]===5[[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]]summary=Archaeology cannot be child's play, [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] when you''Berlin re scraping in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits dirt looking to the city during this periodfind what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. The images provide an insight into the changing nature This book is a case of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in latter, as our author promises to locate the city during topic of the Cold Wartitular search. [[Berlin in And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone|Full Review]] <!target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-- Moorehead -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moorehead_Russian.jpg|left|link=https://wwwDay veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him.amazonThe secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perished.co.uk/gp/product/1445667320Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?ie|isbn=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445667320]]1472146182}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR| styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5|genre==[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead]]===Historical Fiction[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The author was writing from a slightly different stance from most other historiansIt's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Only Petrol Petronus is a decade after young American who has signed up and joined the end of 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the Second World Warfirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, he was basing his account on the premise that the Nazis' rise first to be attached to power in Germany was connected with the heritage that Lenin had left behind, RAF and that without Stalin's assurances of support Hitler would never have dared the first to be sent into the skies to plunge fight the world into such a devastating global conflictGermans in active combat. It was his belief But before that America's post-war commitments in Europe and the Far Eastcan happen, and other post-1945 developments, could also be traced back to Petrol has to master flying the events of 1917notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. Much }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0578761718|title=The Inspiring History of his material came a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from German archives which were saved from destruction at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the Third Reich original church was on destroyed in the brink Great Fire of collapseLondon in 1666. These documents that It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the German government would have kept private had they won fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the war provided full detail on Blitz. But that wasn't the attempts end of their forebears to pave its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the way for chaos church's walls were transported to Fulton, Missouri. There, in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and revolution in their Asiatic neighbourtoday serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill.[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead|Full Review]] <!-- Mourby -->}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=1784385166| styletitle="widthThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse[[image:Mourby_Rooms.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782754]] History| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Rooms with What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a View: The Secret Life concentration camp? None of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]=== [[image:4starthese are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]But some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to you. In this short volume, [[:Category:History|History]] Adrian Mourby Roger Moorhouse has given us a flying visit attempted to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions illustrate the period of the world, with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something Third Reich through one hundred of an overall pictureits material artefacts. So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was in covent Garden in 1774 }}{{Frontpage|author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and it ushered in the beginning of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearbyEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating=4. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a different set 5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I never really followed the events of challenges. We begin Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the Americassecond half of their teens has other priorities, move to the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and Turkey then northern Africa, India hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and Asia. Australia, it seems, does not go for the grand. [[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life birth of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby|Full Review]] <!-- Anderson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Anderson_Fantasylandthe Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.co.uk/gp/product/1785038656?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN|isbn=1785038656]]1684056993}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating=4|genre=[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen]]===Biography[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Fantasyland covers The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the history of America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detailUSA. Covering five centuries At the time she was just three-years-old but because of tempestuous historysome childhood ailment, Andersen paints the conjuring of America in vivid reliefshe wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians Instead, the exhilarating gold rush to alternative factsshe remained with her grandparents, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wit. [[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]]<br> <br> <!-- Way -->|-| style="width: 10%; verticalwho doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of school. She was the only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Way_Tea.jpg|left|link=httpswest of the United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. 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As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1783784350|title===[[Tea Gardens (This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=5|genre=History [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, [[:Category:History|History]] Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century: a trip writing to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to the country in those dayspeople she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. Men had their coffee houses, but they were The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not places where women could or would be seensoothe her mind. Tea January was introduced going to England in the 17th century but it was not until 1784 be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% length and tea became the drink breadth of choice for the nation. Until then British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see story of wool's history and how it had made and be seen: by changed the mid 1600s tea was also being served landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in places such as Ranelagh Gardens. [[Tea Gardens (BritainSuffolk - ''s Heritage Series) by Twigs Way|Full Review]] <!a free-range child on the farm'' - Stewart -->|-and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her blood.}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1789017977[[image:Stewart_Marches.jpg|left|linktitle=httpsRonnie and Hilda's Romance://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099581892?ieTowards a New Life after World War II|author=UTF8&tagWendy Williams|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode4|genre=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099581892]] History| stylesummary="vertical-alignRonnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Marches by Rory Stewart]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]he claimed to have been born in 1863, [[:Category:History|History]] The Observer quote on but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. For a while the front of the paperback edition of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhaps, but family was quite well-to call it travel writing is to totally under-sell it. This is erudition at its finestdo but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. Stewart has the background to do this: One thing he had an international upbringing and followed did inherit from his father in both the Army was his need to be well-turned-out and the Foreign Office, and then (to this would stay with him throughout his father's, bemusement, shall we say) became an MPlife. Oh, and he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan He joined the army at eighteen in 2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison1942. [[The Marches by Rory Stewart|Full Review]]}}<!-- Parker -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1980891117| styletitle="widthG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"A year in the life of George Engleheart|[[image:Parker_50.jpgauthor=John Webley|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784937908?ie5|genre=UTF8&tagArt|summary=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784937908]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[50 Things You Should Know About George Engleheart was one of the Vikings by Philip Parker]]=== [[image:4leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era.5starHe was also one of the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III).jpg|link=Category:Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book.}}{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Frontpage|isbn=1789016304|title=War and Love:Category:ChildrenA family's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]]testament of anguish, [[:Category:Confident Readersendurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Historyauthor=Melanie Martin|rating=5|genre=History]] The Vikings have got a lot to own up |summary=Melanie Martin read about what happened to. A huge DNA study Dutch Jews in 2014 occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was the first thing that proved to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood entranced by what she discovered, particularly in their veins – they had been insisting it was that ''The Diary of the Irish. The Vikings it was Ann Frank'' but then realised that forced our English kingher own family's army to march stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasionthe city during the war years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to spend the next fortnight schlepping back to Hastings happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to try and fend off another – and German occupation. Most people believed that the Normans had the same Norse origin as occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the first lotcity were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, hence that the name. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the coast – way that has a Viking longship it did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on its signpost. Yes, they got to a lot vast scale but made up of tens of places, from Greenland to Kiev, from Murmansk to Turkey and the Med, and their misaligned history is well worth visiting – particularly on these pages. [[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker|Full Review]]thousands of individual tragedies.}}<!-- Maconie -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1908745819| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:MACONIE_lONG.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785030531/ref=nosim?tagtitle=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's column. His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Let's be honest, though, I picked this one up because of someone else's review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know of) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''a whole matrix of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at least. [[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie|Full Review]] <!-- Kay -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kay Vintage.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445657511?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445657511]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] Over the half century and more that I've been preparing meals on a regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something you did, to an obsession akin to a religion. My first kitchen had nothing in the way of luxury - it was there to make meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not quite state of the art, but it's equipped to a high standard and is a pleasure to work in. But what of all the equipment which went before, which paved the way to what we have now? Emma Kay is going to give you a quick trip through the history. [[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay|Full Review]] <!-- Rutherford -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rutherford_Landscape.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445669935?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445669935]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]] My first experience of a ''big'' garden was Versailles as a teenager and whilst I was impressed, I didn't really like it. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by the flatness of it all. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardens. It would be many years before I revised my opinion. On a trip to Harewood House it was too hot a day to be corralled into the house, so I wandered the gardens and found they were delightful. I felt uplifted. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me the opportunity to walk the grounds for over an hour. I was completely won over and a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him in context. [[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford|Full Review]] <!-- Hayward -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hayward New.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1442279419?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1442279419]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook by Vicky Hayward]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] In 1745 a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition of his ''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From the School of Economic Experience''. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. The style was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimed, not at those who could afford to cook on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbers. Whilst the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination of flavours and aromas. Spices are used conservatively and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras' own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New World. [[Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook by Vicky Hayward|Full Review]] <!-- MATYSZAK -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Matysak_24.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782438564/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[24 Hours in Ancient Rome by Philip Matyszak]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] I've never been that interested in Ancient Rome. Blame my teachers, or our oh-so-dry visits to Roman villas with their earnest interpretation panels, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all the interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with the impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend them. ''Mea culpa'', you might say. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours in Ancient Rome'', and its claim to introduce readers to the real Ancient Rome by examining the lives of ordinary people, I decided it was high time to update my education. And the lovely artwork on the front cover made this book all the more appealing. [[24 Hours in Ancient Rome by Philip Matyszak|Full Review]] <!-- Connolly -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Connolly_Heroines.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445662647/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Heroines of the Medieval World by Sharon Bennett Connolly]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] Many women in medieval times left their mark on history, but as a rule they have been neglected by biographers and historians as there is too little surviving information for them to have even brief biographies to themselves. Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution to the problem by writing a general account on a broadly thematic basis. [[Heroines of the Medieval World by Sharon Bennett Connolly|Full Review]] <!-- Amin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Amin_House.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445647648/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown by Nathen Amin]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The family name of Beaufort played a major part in British history during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It therefore seems remarkable that little has been written about them until this present volume. 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|summary=In February 1968 the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left the port of Petropavlovsk Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the Kamchatka peninsula with book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a crew of 98 submarinersbook calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The captain and executive officers were experienced: blurb speaks of the only factor giving cause for concern was that the crew had only recently returned to base and were expecting author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a longer break and were only back at sea because two sister ships had experienced mechanical problems and were unfit for combat controlsbad description of where I am. The Division Commander complained Add to that my love of the natural world, of those aspects of the decision was cruel poetic and potentially reckless. He would be proved right - but lyrical that are about style not publicly - as K-129 went down with form, and substance most of all hands in March 1968, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. It was a while before the sSoviet navy realised that it had lost one of written for me. It would have found its submarines and despite an extensive search they couldn't find way to me eventually. I am pleased to have itfall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445674742</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0857058320|title=Lord Of All the Dead|author= Martyn BeardsleyJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating=4|genre=History|summary=''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008294011|title= Waterloo Voices 1815How to Lose a Country: The Battle at First Hand7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle of Waterloo, fought on A little while ago a midsummer day on friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a muddy field in Belgium, brought an end good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to two decades of war . I think now that I do know. We are in Europe. As one danger of the pivotal events losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of the nineteenth centurya better one, it has inevitably been the focus of many accounts over particularly as the last two hundred years'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susan Duxbury-Neumann1788037812|title= What Have The Fraternity of the Germans Ever Done Estranged: The Fight for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great BritainHomosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time to provide a full answer, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and this slim studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but useful volume does barely talked about in the UK, so very wellthe publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664860</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gillian Tindall1910593508|title= The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London JourneyApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=This book traces the course of historical journeys across incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the city in time Moon landings and space, examining how the areas above passion for the new Crossrail routesubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, the largest building project currently under construction in Europe offering high speed links across LondonChris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of this, have changed over the centuries, with destruction and renewal being authors take a constantly recurring process few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the cityblanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you's historyve ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. It This is a fascinating, compellingly readable exploration through the historical highways graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and byways of the metropolisstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587793</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Trigg1786331047|title=Voices of The Race to Save the Flemish Waffen-SSRomanovs: The Final Testament of Truth Behind the OostfrontersSecret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=3.5
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|summary=In The basic facts about the week I write thisdeaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, Trump has come under fire for not condemning fascistic behaviour in America from some Neo-Nazis. It strikes me that of which were deliberately obscured at the ''Neo-'' is a pointless dignification – yestime for various reasons, they cannot be deemed to follow Hitler precisely as he's have long dead and burnt, so they're kind of new, but common sense obliges me to just call them Nazissince been established. Their excuse is they feel America has been invaded by For the enemy – but what if you were indeed under occupation? Could you see yourself working for last few months of their lives in Russia the forces that had indeed invaded you? The author begins by pointing out that several countries were invaded by the Nazisformer Tsar and Tsarina, their children and they have different feelings about the people who worked against the commonly-few remaining servants were held nationalistic aimin increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. France hates her collaboratorsTo prevent them from being rescued, but just north of in July 1918 the border things are different – revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to death in circumstances which, once the picture is a lot more muddy as a resultnews was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>
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