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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David G Coleman1785633457|title=The Fourteenth DayCharging Around: JFK and Exploring the Aftermath Edges of the Cuban Missile CrisisEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=45|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=The commonly-held view Clive Wilkinson has a history of history would have us believe that the Cuban Missile Crisis began in mid-October 1962 and concluded on 28 October, travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the world heaving a collective sigh idea of relief and moving on to think exploring the edges of other thingsEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. The truth isIn fact, of course, rather different and the crisis rumbled on it should be a pleasant holiday for weeks Clive and months to comehis wife, occasionally almost bubbling to the boil again as Kennedy and Krushchev fenced with each other. Historian David G Coleman has used the secret White House recordings to take us into the Oval Office and listen to what really went on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393346803</amazonuk>Joan, shouldn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09BLBP3P8|title=The Neville Chamberlain's War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World WarGreat Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Margaret MacMillanFrederic Seager

|summary=Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One could argue that such is the scrubbing from the main title popular imagination of this book is slightly questionable. Throughout the half-century or so before the outbreak early days of hostilities in 1914, Europe had rarely been free World War II from conflict1939-40, with known as the Franco-Prussian''Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, Graeco-Turkish and Balkan wars for a startChurchill coming in to save the day. NeverthelessVery little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, the majority it was of vital significance in how the continent was at peace with itself and most of its neighbours during this periodwar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668272X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vincent Bugliosi3756228711|title=ParklandCDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating=4.5

|summary=''Parkland'' is not just a book about The history but a book ''with'' a history. Vincent Bugliosi published ''Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy'' in 2007 with much of the book being based on his preparation for a mock trial development of Lee Harvey Oswald which was shown on British television. This book was an exhaustive look at what happened in Dallas and at subsequent events such as the trial IT could fill books of Jack Ruby and the conspiracy theories which have abounded in the intervening fifty yearsseveral hundred pages. ''Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy'' was published in June 2008 and is - as the title suggests - restricted to what happened on 22 November 1963 and the following three days. ''Parkland'' is the film tie-in version of that book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393347338</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Stephen Jin-Nom Lee and Howard Webster|title=Canton Elegy: A Father's Letter of Sacrifice, Survival and Love|rating=4Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Stephen Jin-Nom LeeHe has chosen to tell us about the short, known in his childhood as Ah Nombut explosive, was born early in history of the twentieth century in the village of Dai Waan in rural China. His father died when he was young and he lived with his grandmotherControl Data Company, mother and 'Little Uncle'CDC, who was only a matter of months older than Ah Nomfor whom he worked. TheyIt'd become friends as they grew olders a fascinating tale, but when his Grandfather returned after a long absence told in America there as a distinct rivalry between the two. Then Grandfather revealed his reason for returning home - he intended to take the boys to America to be educated. It was a wonderful opportunity and Ah Nom left the village mixture of technological summary and his mother not knowing when he would see either againwry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780285736</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Max AdamsJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=The King in the North: The Life Fritz and Times of Oswald of NorthumbriaKurt|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=Born in 604 We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and around for only 38 yearstheir muckers, Oswald didn't live that long but he packed a lot doing things any Jewish lad in. Born into Bernician royalty1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, Oswald helping the teenager had neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to flee with his mother the synagogue choir and siblings when his father Aelfrith was killed at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the Battle of lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the River IdleSabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. Any noble wanting But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to beat his way cave to the top would naturally kill OswaldHitler's family will, and so an obscure upbringing in Ireland seemed instead of having a national vote to keep the answer. HoweverNazis out, Oswald grows strong and bides his time until he comes home and clears his own path, ruling Northumbria for 8 years until his own untimely demiseinvite them in with open arms. During those 8 years he united kingdoms''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, helped establish Christianity and became as did all the inspiration round-ups of writers as disparate as St Bede and TolkienJews. As Oswald became St Oswald he left behind as many legends as historical events These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and this book seeks sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to separate Britain or the man from US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the myth while explaining same train to Buchenwald and the time we call stone quarry there. And us wondering how the Dark Ages in titular event for the brutally separated lands that we now call Great Britain and Ireland.adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781854181</amazonuk>024156574X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Empress Dowager CixiJohn Henry Phillips|authortitle=Jung ChangThe Search

|summary=Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you'The Explorer Gene'' relates re scraping in the remarkable story of three generations dirt looking to find 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. This book is a case of the Piccard familylatter, each of whom managed as our author promises to push locate the boundaries topic of travel and break new frontiersthe titular search. The grandfatherAnd he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, Auguste Piccard was the first human to enter the stratospheretarget might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, using en experimental balloon of his own inventionwhen he cannot dive. His later work, designing submarines, enabled his son Jacques Latching on to become a particular D-Day veteran through helping the first person heroic old man's visit back to descend France, our author has promised to find the bottom of the infamous Mariana trenchlanding craft that delivered him to Normandy, setting a world record for the deepest diveand that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. Grandson Bertrand became the first person The secondary aim is to fly around the world in erect a balloon and now seeks memorial to break new records by means everyone else aboard, the vast majority of a solar-powered craft that he intends whom perished. Who else would make such promises to pilot all the way around the earth.someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780720890</amazonuk>1472146182

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom PinfoldB09F4CTKJR|title=Tudor Monastery Farm: Life in rural England 500 years agoFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary=Think It's the later stages of it as time travelWorld War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Three professional historians have travelled back some five hundred years to put what they've learned into practicePetrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. On a monastery farm they've experienced what it This company was really like the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in rural Tudor England. It's a book Canada, the first to be attached to accompany the BBC television series but it's still a rich RAF and rewarding experience if - like me - you missed the show. There's a wealth of experience between first to be sent into the skies to fight the three authors and they write about what they each know best and it's all supplemented by some sumptuous photographs of Bayleaf Farm Germans in west Sussex and active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the surrounding farmlandnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849906920</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0578761718|title=High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth Inspiring History of Modern Britaina Special Relationship|author=Simon HefferNancy Carver

|summary=Between 1840 and 1880 British life and society underwent a gradual but major changeThe church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, Young adults the original church was destroyed in the latter year would have seen a very different country from that Great Fire of London in which an earlier generation came to maturity1666. The land It was rebuilt in which povertyPortland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, diseasewhen it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, squalor and injustice the stones from the church's walls were endemictransported to Fulton, Missouri. There, and in which the Chartists had agitated for fairer rights for allgrounds of Westminster College, had been largely transformed by the modernising factors of social upheaval church was rebuilt and industrial changetoday serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946771</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Summers1784385166|title=Not In Your Lifetime: The Assassination of JFK|rating=4.5|genre=True Crime|summary=Originally published as ''The Kennedy Conspiracy'', Anthony Summers has massively revised the text, updated it with the latest evidence and it's been republished as ''Not Third Reich in Your Lifetime100 Objects: The Assassination of JFK'' which refers to the statement made by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was asked if the truth about what happened would come out. He said that it would, but added the rider that ''it might not be in your lifetime''. Fifty years on most of the people directly involved are now dead, but the truth has not officially emerged. In fact, it's difficult to avoid the thought that the US government would prefer that it did not see the light A Material History of day. Further documents are due to be released in 2017, but, in the meantime Anthony Summer has examined what is available, investigated on his own behalf and given us this comprehensive book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755365429</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Great Britain's Great WarNazi Germany|author=Jeremy PaxmanRoger Moorhouse

|summary=Throughout What is the nineteenth century, Britain was regularly at war with one or more overseas nation, be it France, Russia, South Africa or elsewhere. These conflicts generally passed first image that comes to mind when you think of the public by, except for families who had loved ones serving overseas. When the declaration Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of war against Germany was announced to the crowds Third Reich's fascist regime in London in August 1914, it was assumed that once again most people would not be affected, all its iniquity. But some objects and images from that it would probably time may be over by Christmas. This was proved wrong on both countsless familiar to you. A weary conflict dragged on for four long yearsIn this short volume, and nobody in Britain escaped from Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the period of the long shadow which it castThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919616</amazonuk> 

 {{newreview|title=The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Murder That Changed the WorldFrontpage|author=Greg King and Sue Woolmans|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=Possibly no assassination in history can have had such momentous consequences for the history of the world as that of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie in SarajevoLun Zhang, the capital of BosniaAdrien Gombeaud, in June 1914. It was their killing which led directly to the outbreak of the First World War, just six weeks later.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230759572</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAmeziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=The First BohemiansTiananmen 1989: Life and Art in London's Golden Age|author=Vic GatrellOur Shattered Hopes

|genre=HistoryGraphic Novels|summary=It was in I never really followed the eighteenth century that an area of London consisting events of about half a square mile, from Soho and Leicester Tiananmen Square across Covent Garden’s Piazza to Drury Lane, and down from Long Acre to the Strand, with Covent Garden at much attention when it was playing out – someone in the very centresecond half of their teens has other priorities, became what has in modern times been recognised as the world’s first creative ‘bohemia’you know. This was where I certainly didn't know of the cream weeks of Britain’s significant artists, actors, poets, novelists, protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and dramatists the birth of the age lived and workedTank Man image, side by side with I didn't know how the city’s chief market traders, craftsmen, shopkeepers, rakesarea had long been a venue for political protest, pickpockets and prostitutesI didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. One might say that all human life was hereThis book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846146771</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=Inventing the EnemyClara Colby: Essays on EverythingThe International Suffragist|author=Umberto EcoJohn Holliday

|genre=HistoryBiography|summary=Imagine a sumptuous Italian feast in The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the sunlittime she was just three-years-bathed ancient countryside near Milan. Next old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to you a gentleman talks sail with her parents and eats with furious energythree brothers. He tells of Dante Instead, Ciceroshe remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and St Augustine and quotes saw that she received a multitude of obscure troubadours from the Middle Ages. He repeats himself, gestures flamboyantlygood education, nudges you sharply both in the ribs, belches and even breaks windout of school. His conversation contains nuggets of information but She was the only child in the flow of his discourse there is a fondness for iteration household and reiterationher childhood was glorious. He throws bones over his shoulder and when he reaches By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the cheese course mid- definitely too much information on west of the mouldy bacteria! When you finally get up things the elderly gentleman has said prompt your imagination. You are better informedUnited States and life was hard, intrigued and prodded as Clara was to examine his discourse again find out when she and again, even if only her grandparents eventually went to challenge what you have heardjoin the family. Such are the effects of reading Eco’s essays Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in ''Inventing childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the Enemy''eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553945</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Crooked Timber Of Humanity1783784350|authortitle=Isaiah Berlin|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=''The Crooked Timber of Humanity'' is a collection of essays by philosopher Isaiah Berlin, born in Riga, to, later in life, become an Oxford student and one of the institutionThis Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's more notable alumni, continuing to influence the university by, among other things, cofounding Wolfson College. Altogether, the collection presents Berlin's observations of Western thought. The history of morals in the West was of particular interest to Berlin, as well as how these morals informed the more obvious changes in philosophy, literature, culture and much more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845952081</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A Very British Murder: the Story of a National ObsessionKnitted History|author=Lucy WorsleyEsther Rutter|rating=4.5|genre=True Crime|summary=The British are an illogical race. Short of genocide, murder is the worst, most shocking crime an individual can commit, yet it has become a kind of commodity which over the last years has been endlessly packaged as a mass market entertainment industry. We buy newspapers and magazines with blow-by-blow accounts of dreadful true life cases, we read thrillers, watch TV drama series and documentaries, and we can take part in murder mystery evenings and weekends at pubs and hotels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849906343</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica|author=Chris Turney|rating=4

|summary=If you read those products designed to make you a published authorIt was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, one way writing to start according people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to so many be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of them is to look ahead for a pertinent anniversary, research or know your subject wellthe British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of wool's history and write well in advance how it had made and as popularly as you can on whatever changed the subject islandscape. Make no mistake, however – Chris Turney, even if he would appear to have followed that dictum She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the farm'' - and learned to the lastspin, is no chancer with the eye to the temporary relevanceknit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845952103</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark White1789017977|title=KennedyRonnie and Hilda's Romance: A Cultural History of an American IconTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams

|summary=During his lifetime John Fitzgerald Kennedy created an image Ronnie Williams was the son of himself that dazzled 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: he claimed to have been born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and which has largely remained intact despite the steady leakage of information over the he might well have shaved a few years which could have been expected to tarnishoff his age. It could be argued that For a while the family was quite well-to- much as do but disaster struck in the case of Elvis Presley 1929 Depression and Princess Diana five- death year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was an excellent career move, but Mark White examines the way the image was built up, then maintained and his need to be well- after the assassination turned- burnished, reinforced out and protectedthis would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441161864</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1980891117|title=Armchair NationG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: An intimate history of Britain A year in front the life of the TVGeorge Engleheart|author=Joe MoranJohn Webley

|genre=EntertainmentArt|summary=All George Engleheart was one of us have a love-hate affair with television, or ‘the idiot lantern’. Hardly anybody who has ever owned a set, or been part the leading portrait miniaturists of a family which has had oneGeorgian London, can envisage life without it. It has been with a source of endless entertainment and escape career lasting from the drudge 1770s to the Regency era. He was also one of everyday lifethe most prolific, while at some time it has irritated most painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of us beyond measureKing George III). Love it or loathe it, it has always been part Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the fabric names of our existence. While to a certain extent it has been superseded by online services which have supplemented if not overtaken or usurped part each of its rolehis clients, its iconic status and subsequently transcribed them into what is unlikely referred to disappear for the foreseeable futureas his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683912</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016304|title=Anti-JudaismWar and Love: A History of a Way family's testament of Thinkinganguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=David NirenbergMelanie Martin|rating=4.5

|summary=Initially Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the choice of title seemed an odd one on account of city during the more widely used termwar years, anti-Semitismbut only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. The distinction is quickly made though Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that unlike the latter, anti-Judaism does not need real Jews Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to flourishescalate in the way that it did, but is fuelled by initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an idea alone. In fact this is atrocity on a core tenet vast scale but made up of Nirenberg’s thesis. Throughout history the idea tens of ‘Judaism’ is raised as an existential spectre in societies where there may be no Jewish members at all. This is a chilling reality, and Nirenberg charts the course thousands of how this came to beindividual tragedies. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851131</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1908745819|title=Victoria's Madmen: Revolution and AlienationSurfacing|author=Clive BloomKathleen Jamie|rating=4.5

|summary=Despite the revisionist work of Sometimes when people suggest that you read a few writers and historianscertain book, our prevailing image of the Victorian age they tell you ''this one has generally been one of staid conformityyour name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, superiority and stuffinessor not, during which only but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a few dissenters put their heads above book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the parapetauthor considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself. '' Clive Bloom sums it up rather succinctly on the first page as Older. Less tethered. That's not a ‘monolith bad description of steam and class conflict, antimacassars and aspidistras’where I am. A page later, he describes the nineteenth century – most Add to that my love of which was covered by the Victorian era – as one divided by three groupsnatural world, namely of those who represented aspects of the old Georgian decadence, the young Turks eager for reformpoetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and finally a group who felt an allegiance to the world substance most of their forebears but were forced all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to exist in a world of confirming moralism and priggishnessme eventually. The young Turks, he concludes, ultimately wonI am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230313825</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0857058320|title=Inferno Decoded: The essential companion to Lord Of All the myths, mysteries and locations of Dan Brown's InfernoDead|author=Michael HaagJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|summary=While ''Lord Of All the novels of Alexandre Dumas, like Dead''The Three Musketeersis a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor' s life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle''The Count of Monte Cristo''s death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, werenCercas't truegreat uncle, they were based on a real hero - Dumasis the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's own fatherforces. Born Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the son centre of a slave and a French nobleman, General Alexandre Dumas would go on this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to rise to fame and fortune during the French Revolution, only to face racism, betrayal, and be a rivalry with Napoleon Bonaparte which would eventually lead to hero whilst having fought for the virtual disappearance from history of this incredible figurewrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575132</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008294011|title=Tutankhamen's CurseHow to Lose a Country: The Developing History of an Egyptian King7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Joyce TyldesleyEce Temelkuran

|summary=The striking cover of A little while ago a 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 'Tutankhamen’s Curse' certainly has a way of arresting Discuss the reader’s attentionfactors which led to... The iconic golden funeral mask peers out from an ink-black background '' I agreed that she was right and those heavily-lined Egyptian eyes seem wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to stare eerily into the soul . I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the beholder'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861971664</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=A Very British KillingThe Fraternity of the Estranged: The Death of Baha MousaFight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=A T WilliamsBrian Anderson

|summary=Almost ten years ago on a Sunday morning back Originally passed in September 20031885, British Troops raided the law that had made homosexual relations a hotel crime remained in Basraplace for 82 years. It was a difficult period in the occupationBut during this time, six months restrictions on from the Usame-sex relationships did not go unchallenged.S. led invasion. Temperatures were more than 50 degrees centigrade. Members of Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the Queen's Lancashire Regiment (QLR) took ten suspects in for questioning from a hotel in the vicinity nature of insurgent weaponryhomosexuality appeared. The Iraqis They were hooded, plasticuffed, forced into stress positions and subjected to karate chops and kidney punches written by the British. Other two homosexual men : Edward Carpenter and officers watchedJohn Addington Symonds, walked by or wondered at as well as the stench that resulted from vicious punishmentheterosexual Havelock Ellis. After 36 hours Exploring the margins of torturesociety and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, a 26 year-old hotel receptionist lay dead by asphyxiation. His grossly disfigured body bore 93 individual injuries. There are now but barely talked about in the region UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of another 250 individualshomosexuality, men and womenbeginning the struggle for recognition and equality, whose families are making legal claims leading to have been killed the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in further encounters with British patrols or prison guards1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575116</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1910593508|title=The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's MummyApollo|author=Jo MarchantMatt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins

|summary=''Now, if I'd known''<br>''They'd line up just This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to see himthe Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch,''<br>''I'd taken all my money''<br>''And bought me a museumChris Baker and Mike Collins.'' These lyrics, taken from This is a popular Steve Martin songstory we know well and because of this, perfectly epitomize the authors take a phenomenon first described few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the New York Times, February 1923blanks. The craze came These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be known as ''Tut-Mania'' familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and even now, ninety years later, there that dialogue has been trimmed. This is something about the boy-king with the golden mask a graphic novel that ignites the imagination could easily have been three times as long and curiosity of each subsequent generationstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306821338</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Last Battle1786331047|author=Stephen Harding|rating=4.5|genre=History|summarytitle=May 4, 1945 saw the unconditional surrender of all German troops in Germany in Northwest Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Bavaria. Berlin had surrendered two days earlier. A few more areas remained officially at war, but even the most diehard supporter must have realised Germany had fallen. The war was over, Race to most soldiers, although VE day would be delayed for a few more days. But Save the most implausible battle of Romanovs: The Truth Behind the second world war was about Secret Plans to begin. Had Rescue Russia''The Last Battle'' been fiction, I would have scoffed at the unlikely alliance featured in this book as too unbelievable. A final battle played out in isolated Austrian castle was to rescue French VIPs held as honour prisoners. They were to be protected by the oddest ensemble of soldiers ever known. A ranking member of the S.S., a decorated Wehrmacht officer and his troops, the Austrian resistance and a few American soldiers against a suicidal S.S. troop bent on carrying as many killings as possible before the inevitable end.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306822083</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Riddle of the Labyrinths Imperial Family|author=Margalit FoxHelen Rappaport

|summary=Meet Linear B. It's The basic facts about the deaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, some of which were deliberately obscured at the name given to an ancient writing system discovered in 1900time for various reasons, and has stuck ever have long since thenbeen established. If you need to know more, it's a linear style For the last few months of writingtheir lives in Russia the former Tsar and Tsarina, their children and is linked to Linear A. Therefew remaining servants were held in increasingly squalid, that's that cleared uphumiliating captivity. But it took an awful long time to clear anything more up – while people knew some things about Linear BTo prevent them from being rescued, in July 1918 the revolutionary regime had them all shot and why and how they got bayoneted to be holding it death in their handscircumstances which, once the actual language it contained, and its meaning, was a truly intellectual challenge. It news was five whole decades of obscurityconfirmed beyond all doubt, annoyingly secretive archaeologists and more, between Sir Arthur Evans finding Linear B on copious clay tablets on Crete, and its interpretation. In between those two landmarks was an unsung American heroine, and this book is both an incredibly readable guide to everything regarding Linear B, and a study of her contributionhorrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251320</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Jonathan Dimbleby|title=Destiny in the Desert: The Road Move on to El Alamein - the Battle that Turned the Tide|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=El Alamein is a totemic British battle, standing as it does with others which turned the tide of our fortunes. The Allies were still smarting from the effects of Dunkirk [[Newest Home and harbouring the knowledge that had Hitler elected to press his advantage then the situation could have been very different. Churchill is often quoted as saying that there were no victories before El Alamein and no defeats afterwards. This isn't true - 'it seemed that' is generally omitted from the beginning of the quote - but it does sum up the fact that the battle turned the tide of ''perception'' as well as the fortunes of war, which was quite an achievement for fighting which took place on land to which none of the major participants had any legitimate claim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684455</amazonuk>}}Family Reviews]]