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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Derek Niemann1785633457|title=A Nazi in Charging Around: Exploring the Family: The Hidden Story Edges of an SS Family in Wartime GermanyEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson

|genre=BiographyTravel|summary=I'm sure someone somewhere Clive Wilkinson has rewritten The Devil's Dictionary to include the following – ''family: noun; place where the greatest secrets are kept''a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. The Niemann family is no exception. It was long known that grandfather Karl was in Germany during As he neared his eightieth birthday the Second World War, people could easily work that out from idea of exploring the family biography. Yet little was spoken edges of, apart from him being England in an office-bound worker, either in logistics or financeelectric car was not totally outrageous. Since the War two of three surviving siblings had relocated to the Glasgow environsIn fact, and there was even it should be a family quip concerning Goebbels pleasant holiday for Clive and Gorbals (''family: noun; place where the worst things are spoken in the best way''). What was a surprise to our author, and many of his relativeswife, was that things were a lot closer to the former than had been expectedJoan, for Karl was such an office worker – for the SS. With a lot of family history finally out of the closet of silent mouths, and with incriminating photographic evidence revealed in unlikely ways, the whole truth can be known. But this is certainly not just of interest to that one small family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722222</amazonuk>shouldn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jessie ChildsB09BLBP3P8|title=GodNeville Chamberlain's TraitorsWar: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan EnglandHow Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager

|summary=It goes almost without saying that sixteenth-century England, at Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the height popular imagination of religious persecution, was a pretty perilous age. Queen Mary was notorious for the number early days of Protestants who were burnt at the stake for their beliefs during her fiveWorld War II from 1939-year reign. A belief widely held by many (depending on your religion40, known as likely as not) was that during the forty-five years that ‘Good Queen Bess’ reigned''Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, greater toleration held swayand Churchill coming in to save the day. This has recently been disproved beyond doubt by several historiansVery little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, and as Frederic Seager argues in this book likewise helps to underline , it was of vital significance in how the savagery towards Catholics that was endemic under her rulewar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700053</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Greene3756228711|title=Midnight in SiberiaCDC: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=It's no mistake that the cover of my edition of this book is a photo where the Trans-Siberian Railway is horizontal in the frame. It's well known for going east-west, left to right across the map of the largest country by far in the world. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow to the eastern stretches of Russia, it could only be a long, thin line across the cover, as it is in our imagination of it as a form of transport and a travel destination in its own right. So when this book mentions it as the spine or backbone of Russia The happy years with a couple of times, thatspectacular IT 's got to be of a prone Russia – one lying down, not upright or active. David Greene, a stalwart of northern American radio journalism, uses this book to see just how active or otherwise Russia and Russians are – and finds their lying down to be quite a definite verdict, as well as a slight indictment. ItPhenomena's no mistake either for this cover to have people in the frame alongside the train carriages, for the people met both riding and living alongside the tracks of the Railway are definitely the ribs of the piece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen Bates|title=1815: Regency Britain in the Year of WaterlooHans Bodmer|rating=4.5

|summary=''The idea history of taking a pivotal year from the past and devoting a whole book development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. He has chosen to tell us about the themeshort, embracing politicalbut explosive, social and military historyof the Control Data Company, is a very interesting one. Stephen Bates did so successfully not long ago with ‘Two Nations: Britain in 1846’CDC, and here for whom he does the same againworked. It's a fascinating tale, taking told in a step three decades backmixture of technological summary and wry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858217</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lena Mukhina Jeremy Dronfield and Amanda Love Darragh (translator)David Ziggy Greene|title=The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of LeningradFritz and Kurt

|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=If life as a girl We start with the pair of school-leaving age is hard enoughbrothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, think about it when you're stuck doing things any Jewish lad in a great city under a horrendous siege. Lena Mukhina's diary only covers half 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the 800-odd days empty market place, helping the nightmare in Leningrad lastedneighbours, but so palpably singular were the circumstances that being dutiful when it feels like one is given comes to the clearest insight into what it was like, courtesy of these pagessynagogue choir and at a vocational school. IKurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours've been there and never felt each Friday night – the ghost of the siege in the modern St Petersburg, Sabbath preventing them for using anything like (for example) the ruination of Warsaw had lived onnearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But a dreadful this is the time this was. At just before the peak times Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of Nazi oppression and aerial bombinghaving a national vote to keep the Nazis out, the city lost 2 or 3 residentsinvite them in with open arms. ' lives ''every minuteKristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of the day on averageJews. The city was desperate for fuelThese 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 food – his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and this is a place where it can – and does here – snow in Junethe stone quarry there. Without giving too much of And us wondering how the titular event for the diet away, it's notable that later on Lena dreams adult variant of having a menagerie of small animals to live with – but no dogs or cats.all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144726987X</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jerry WhiteJohn Henry Phillips|title=Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World WarThe Search

|summary=It seems that only recentlyArchaeology cannot be child's play, with when you're scraping in the centenary 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 outbreak latter, as our author promises to locate the topic of the First World War upon ustitular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, that historians have really looked thoroughly at the social history aspect target might not exist any more – oh, and the effect it had 's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the population at home. Jerry Whiteheroic old man's visit back to France, who our author has already made a study of London over promised to find the last three centuries or so in previous titleslanding craft that delivered him to Normandy, now turns his attention and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to life in erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the capital during those momentous four yearsvast majority of whom perished.Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099556049</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David EsterlyB09F4CTKJR|title=The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of MakingFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyHistorical Fiction|summary=Bouncing between his studio in upstate New York and the sites of various English sojourns, woodcarver David EsterlyIt's seems to be an idyllic existence. Yet it's not all cosy cottages in the snow later stages of World War I and watching geese the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and coyotes when he looks up from his workbenchjoined the 17 Aero Squadron. There is an element of hard-won retreat from This company was the trials of life first US Aero Squadron to be trained in this memoirCanada, but at the same time there is an argument for first to be attached to the RAF and the first to be sent into the essential difficulty of skies to fight the artist's lifeGermans in active combat. 'Carvers are starversBut before that can happen,' a wizened English carver once told him. Certainly there is no great fortune Petrol has to be won from a profession as obscure as limewood carving, master flying the notoriously difficult but the rewards outweigh the hard graft for Esterlymajestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649191</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Tennant, Hilary Bailey and David Elliott0578761718|title=Did We Meet on Grub Street?|rating=3.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=Essentially, the three authors (all of whom have long careers in the book industry) revel in the idea of being whining old curmudgeons who miss the good old days of publishing. This unashamed nostalgia provides the focus of the book and allows the writers to recount numerous anecdotes from their days in the publishing business. Whilst the primary audience for this book may well be students of creative writing and media studies, it also serves as an interesting exploration of an aspect of modern history: how a once-burgeoning industry is now a shell of its former self, much like a lot The Inspiring History of manufacturing. Because of this, I was disappointed that no space was given to a consideration of how the rise of the e-book and Kindle has directly damaged both the sale of books and the potential for new books to be written (fewer real books sold = fewer financial advances paid to writers = fewer books written). Also, given the clear love of books as treasured artifacts, the dismissal of the Harry Potter phenomenon seems truculent, given the impetus the series gave to reading amongst both the young and adults.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704372983</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSpecial Relationship|author=John Van der Kiste|title=The Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm IINancy Carver

|summary=Anders Behring Breivik was 32 when he both planted a van bomb The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in Oslo's central government district to hit out the City of London from at what he thought least 1181, when it was 'Cultural Marxism', which killed 8, then left for an island first mentioned in a lake 24 miles awayrecords. Sadly, where a notably political youth gathering the original church was enjoying itselfdestroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. He gunned down 69 people – more than one It was rebuilt in ten of those at Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the camp – fire and wounded many scores more. He also spammed countless people with another of his projectsthen survived for centuries until World War II, a lengthy manifesto declaring his ideas about Islamisation and what he saw as a pernicious multiculturalism ruining his country. His case when it was one of again ruined by bombs during the more superlative events in modern Nordic history – as was Blitz. But that wasn't the surprisingly lenient sentence for over 70 lives end of just 21 years. This isits story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, as youthe stones from the church'd expects walls were transported to Fulton, Missouri. There, one in the grounds of Westminster College, the many books church was rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to result from the caseWinston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612346685</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Jones1784385166|title=Magna CartaThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: The Making and Legacy A Material History of the Great CharterNazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse

|summary=For what do we – and by courtesy What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of a lengthy timeline in history, would the Americans likewise – most likely owe thanks Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a spigurnelconcentration camp? What is the most revered legal document in history, which sets out the rights None of man – these are comfortable images but also has time to talk about widows' rights, fish traps, and to be both sexist and to discuss they are emblematic of the importance to peopleThird Reich's estates to debts owed Jewish moneylenders? What will probably be the only notable historical experience of Britain fascist regime in 1215, when we finally get diverted all its iniquity. But some objects and images from thinking about WWI and discuss the 800 years of something elsethat time may be less familiar to you. In this short volume, even though Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the authority period of no less than the Pope declared it null and void within ten weeks Third Reich through one hundred of its being finished?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858853</amazonuk>material artefacts. 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Iain Gately|title=Rush Hour|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Rush Hour. 500 Million commuters go through it every dayLun Zhang, and it's hard to avoid - whether like me you're a jaded Londoner stuck in someone's armpit whilst attempting to read on a cramped tubeAdrien Gombeaud, or trying to navigate busy country lanes in order to do the school run Ameziane and get to work on time, we've probably all experienced it. But have you ever thought about the history of it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781854068</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=James EvansEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=Merchant AdventurersTiananmen 1989: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England Our Shattered Hopes

|genre=HistoryGraphic Novels|summary=We tend to associate I never really followed the golden age events of global navigation Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and exploration with hunger strikes from the students before the Elizabethan age massacre and such luminaries as Drakethe birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, Raleigh and HawkinsI didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This book does us all is practically flawless in giving a service general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in reminding us of the original pioneers, whom they overshadowed and who seem less well-remembered these days1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780221029</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Marriott0648684806|title=A History of the World in NumbersClara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday

|genre=HistoryBiography|summary=Make no mistake, this book does what it says on The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the coverUSA. That also goes to say that it is ''not'' A History of At the World ''time she was just three-years-old but because of'' Numberssome childhood ailment, or A History of the Worldshe wasn's Numbers t allowed to sail with her parents and what they might mean, as other books providethree brothers. This is Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a primer good education, both in and out of school. She was the world's historyonly child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, right from her family had become pioneer farmers in the earliest days mid-west of civilisation up the United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the close of World War Twofamily. 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 handy bite-sized chunkschildbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, where the headline data can be given using a numberheavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432175</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1783784350|title=Serving the ReichThis Golden Fleece: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under HitlerA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Philip BallEsther Rutter|rating=4.5

|summary=Picture yourself It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in Nazi Germanyher office job, at any time of the Reichwriting to people she's powersd never met and preparing spreadsheets. What do you do, The job frustrated her and how do you behave? even her knitting did not soothe her mind. Do you recognise January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the fact Jews are being oppressed length and have been since the first days breadth of the Nazi regime? Do you do anything about thisBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, or are you aware discovering and telling the story of the problems the country has wool's history and how it had due to losing the Great War made and having changed the whole Weimar Republic and hyperinflation, and just look after number one? Now picture yourself as a scientistlandscape. All youShe've known your adult life has been to furthering your knowledge d grown up on a sheep farm in, say, physics. Do you again work purely for your own ends? For Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the countryfarm's – knowing all about its rulers? Or can you segregate your bosses ' - and learned to spin, knit and their leaders weave from your needs, her mother and perhaps seek knowledge for the sake of the world? Ither mother's probably not a conundrum that has hit you before, given its scientific bent, but it's worth looking at what friend. This was going on at that timein her blood. Which way did Planck walk? Did Heisenberg have principles?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581647</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Slideshow: Memories of a Wartime Childhood1789017977|author=Marjorie Ann Watts|rating=3.5|genre=History|summarytitle=Ronnie and Hilda''Slideshow'' may seem an unusual title for s Romance: Towards a book about growing up during the Second New Life after World War, but author Marjorie Ann Watts is quick to explain why it was chosen. Her job as a book illustrator and artist requires astute observation skills and she has what might be known as a 'photographic memory', or a gift for recalling specific scenes from her past in great detail. She explains it this way: 'All I have to do is pull a 'slide' from the accumulated silt of memory...there it is: a varnish-clear image as vivid as the day it was recorded, however long ago.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373599</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing FieldsII|author=Wendy LowerWilliams|rating=3.54

|summary=If one were to describe Ronnie Williams was the Nazi regime with oneson of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's own adjectives, Isome doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry'm sure that sooner or laters birthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, after all the ruder but he was already many years older than Ethel and more pejorative emotional ones had been thought of, 'masculine' would come uphe might well have shaved a few years off his age. Let's face it, it would be For a scholar who could name any leading female Nazis beyond Eva Braun while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and Mrs Goebbels, who nobody I think has ever put at the forefront of actual policy, thinking or actionsfive-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. But there were females at the front – many thousands, it seems, taking themselves away One thing he did inherit from Germany with ideas of the ''Lebensraum'' being opened up out East; moving their skills as either secretary, nurse, teacher or just willing ''Hausfrau'' his father was his need to the occupied territories, where… be well, that -turned-out and this would be tellingstay with him throughout his life. This book is He joined the one to read if you want that told, but it doesn't do it army at eighteen in the most brilliant way1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572281</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1980891117|title=Hitler's Last WitnessG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: The Memoirs A year in the life of Hitler's BodyguardGeorge Engleheart|author=Rochus MischJohn Webley

|genre=AutobiographyArt|summary=I am proud to declare an interest in all things Holocaust, George Engleheart was one of the key areas leading portrait miniaturists of which was the last days of Hitler – the Downfall, if you like, way before youtube satirists. So this bookGeorgian London, with a career lasting from the man who for some unspecified years was the last eye-witness 1770s to have been in the Fuhrerbunker at the end Regency era. He was also one of the Nazi regimemost prolific, was always going to be a great readpainting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). It remained Throughout most of that even after time he carefully recorded the foreword dismissed its own book, pointing out differences here to the canon names of thought about the timings etc each of April/May 1945his clients, and declaring the author somewhat naïve in not being so aware, circumspect and authoritative about the major points of WWIIsubsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848327498</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Making of Home1789016304|authortitle=Judith Flanders|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=In 1900 a young girl in a strange land told the people around her that she had decided she no longer wanted to live in their lovely country, but would much rather return to the ‘dry, grey’ place she had come from, because there was ‘no place like home’. The girl was Dorothy, while the people around her were the citizens War and Love: A family's testament of Oz – and, yes, it was all fictionanguish, the creation of author L. Frank Baum. Nevertheless he had put into words something which many people deeply felt but had not yet expressed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848877986</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived endurance and Will Never Diedevotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Alex WernerMelanie Martin|rating=45

|summary=It has been over 125 years since the first Sherlock Holmes story was written and since then, the character has been subject Melanie Martin read about what happened to countless interpretations on stage, screen Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and in literature. Such was the popularity of the famous detectiveentranced by what she discovered, that his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, attempted on more than one occasion to particularly in ''free himselfThe Diary of Ann Frank' from Holmes, the most notable example being his 'deathbut then realised that her own family' at Reichenbach Fallss stories were equally fascinating. Readers A hundred and seven thousand Jews were most upset deported from the city during the war years, but only five thousand survived and Doyle eventually bowed Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to public pressureGerman occupation. 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, reviving that the eponymous hero for further adventures. In Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the years way that followedit did, Holmes took but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a life independent vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of his author, as his stories were adapted for stage and film. An unconcerned Doyle allowed free rein with the character, famously saying: 'You may marry or murder or do whatever you like with himindividual tragedies.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958725</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1908745819|title=Witches: James I and the English Witch HuntsSurfacing|author=Tracy BormanKathleen Jamie|rating=4.5

|summary=Gossip is as old as human natureSometimes 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 generally harmlessrarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the book. That's a rare experience. It was People who are sensitive to hearing a different matter in medieval timesbook calling your name, when what might start as relatively innocuous tittle-tattle could breed suspicionrarely get it wrong. In this case, paranoiaI was told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering ''an older, and ultimately accusations against women and girls less tethered sense of witchcraftherself. '' More often than Older. Less tethered. That's not, it would end in a horrible death by execution - drowning, strangulation on the gallows, or being burned alivebad description of where I am. The unsavoury business Add to that my love of witchcraft trials in early seventeenth-century England was encouraged by King James Ithe natural world, who with his obsession with and knowledge of those aspects of the black arts poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and his firm belief in the threat substance most of demonic forces believed that witches all, about connection. Of course, this book had been responsible my name on it. It was written for fierce storms that had come close me. It would have found its way to drowning his future bride on her voyage by sea from Scotland me eventually. I am pleased to Englandhave it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954914X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0857058320|title=Rest in PiecesLord Of All the Dead|author=Bess LovejoyJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|summary=''Lord Of All sorts has happened the Dead'' is a journey to deceased famous people - stolenuncover 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, soldCercas' great uncle, stuffed, etcis 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. Bess Lovejoy has collected The question at the fates centre of the celebrity deceased and tells them here - in a cracking little this book that will is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be ideal as a stocking filler or small gift hero whilst having fought for those who enjoy slightly gruesome talesthe wrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715648489</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008294011|title=How to Lose a Country: The Last Escaper7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Peter TunstallEce Temelkuran

|summary=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 ''The Last EscaperDiscuss the factors which led to...'' opens differently to many of the great escape biographies I agreed that were released soon after the war as she was right and wasn't certain whether it is told some 70 years later. Peter Tunstall was an RAF pilot who a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was shot down and spent many years as a Prisoner Of War across occupied Europe, including in Colditzleading to. He lived through the war, but also lived through many decades of peaceI think now that I do know. Will these years of the relative quiet life lesson the tales We are in danger of bravery losing democracy and dare doing whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the war? Of course not!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071564923X</amazonuk>'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=The Shop GirlsFraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Elee SeymourBrian Anderson|rating=45

|summary=Heyworth's Department Store. The chances areOriginally passed in 1885, you have never heard of it beforethe law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. I know that I hadn't, before I picked up But during this book. And yet, there was a time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not so long ago, when everyone in Cambridge would have been familiar with Heyworth's, even if they couldn't afford to shop there themselvesgo unchallenged. Smaller than most department stores, it offered high-end fashion, childrenswear Between 1891 and millinery1908, with a staff three books on the nature of smilinghomosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, smartly-dressed sales assistants ready to cater to as well as the customer's every whimheterosexual Havelock Ellis. It seems sad that with Exploring the passing margins of generationssociety and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the very existence scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the store seems struggle for recognition and equality, leading to have slipped away from the collective consciousness; ask most people milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in Cambridge if they remember Heyworth's and the majority response would be negative1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751554960</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Drew1910593508|title=Washington Journal: reporting Watergate Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Richard Nixon's downfallMike Collins

|summary=In early August 1974 I was in what was then Yugoslavia. There was This incredible graphic novel is a group of us, all interested in love letter to the political news, but essentially cut off from Moon landings and the outside world apart from passion for the previous day's English newspapers which arrived mid morningsubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. It was on This is a story we know well and because of this, the 11th of August authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that one of our number dashed onto we can fill in the beach yelling ''He's resignedblanks. He's RESIGNED!!!'' No one had any need These shortcuts are the only downside to ask who he was talking aboutthe book. WeIf you'd all been following ve ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the news about Richard Nixon's doings slight feeling that there are scenes missing and wrongdoings for that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a year, with no one certain graphic novel that he would be forced out of office. The investigative journalism (oh, for the days when journalists uncovered rather than merely covered) was done by Carl Bernstein could easily have been three times as long and Bob Woodward, but some of the most insightful reportage came from Elizabeth Drew writing for ''The New Yorker''still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649167</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786331047|title=Golden ParasolThe Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Wendy Law-YoneHelen Rappaport

|summary=If you look her up Wendy Law-Yone is described as a Burmese-born American author. That ''Burmese-born American'' might be an accurate description The basic facts about the deaths of her current citizenshipNicholas and Alexandra, but it barely hints some of which were deliberately obscured at the ethnic mix time for various reasons, have long since been established. For the last few months of her heritagetheir lives in Russia the former Tsar and Tsarina, their children and few remaining servants were held in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. To prevent them from being rescued, nor of her personal closeness (through her father) in July 1918 the revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to her original homeland's struggle for freedom and democracydeath in circumstances which, once the news was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555999</amazonuk>