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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John George Freeman and Ronnie Scott (editor)1785633457|title=Three Men and a BradshawCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=45

|summary=This book is quite the very time machine, and because of that some of its own Clive Wilkinson has a history is needed in summary. A year or two ago, our presenter Shaun Sewell was buying some private documents from the descendants of John George Freeman, to complete travelling by unconventional means with a set of illustrated preference for slow travel journals . As he'd met with when risking a punt on neared his eightieth birthday the first few at auction. He was intent on getting them published since finding them, and seemed to be idea of exploring the first person with that desire since they were first written edges of England in the 1870san electric car was not totally outrageous. Back then they were well-writtenIn fact, educative it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and entertaining looks at the early days of the travel industryhis wife, when for example piers were novel(ty) ways for the rail companies to justify sending people to the ends of the country where previously there had been little for them to do. Here then is railwayanaJoan, travel and social history, all between two covers. So even if this doesnshouldn't find the perfectly huge audience of some books, it will certainly raise interest in many households.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947441</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steven NightingaleB09BLBP3P8|title= Granada: The Light of Andalucia|rating=4 |genre= History |summary= Don't expect (as I did) a ''Parrot-in-the-Pepper-Tree'' type collection of comedic mishaps and tales about the joys -- and perils -- of joining a new community. This is, more than anything, a history book, albeit one in which the writerNeville Chamberlain's deep love of his adopted home (Granada and, more specifically, the Albayzín, the district he lives in), his family and his neighbours makes every sentence sparkle. Even better, it's a history book that assumes no knowledge on the part of the reader. Steven Nightingale covers centuries of events in SpainWar: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, describing them with clarity and in a typically engaging style. He starts with the Moorish occupation of Spain in 711 and ends post1939-Civil War. Despite its vast chronological span, the book is more than a dry recounting of events and dates. Yes, that information is there, as befits any good history book. But Steven Nightingale's focus is more on the effects of these historical events, and the achievements of the times, particularly the ongoing legacy of the Moorish occupation. He writes in detail about Arabic poetry, the timeless nature of love, developments in maths, science and the arts, geometry in tiling, and much more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886313</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1940|author=Paul O'Keeffe|title=Waterloo: The AftermathFrederic Seager

|summary=There have been several accounts Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the battle early days of Waterloo World War II from 1939-40, known as the ''Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, and of Churchill coming in to save the events that led up to itday. But it Very little time is always interesting to discover a spent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book which finds a different way , it was of telling vital significance in how the tale, or in this case focusing more on what happened directly afterwardswar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563797</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Buk-Swienty3756228711|title=1864CDC: The forgotten war that shaped modern Europehappy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer

|summary=''The brief but bloody clash history of the development of IT could fill books of arms between Denmark and Prussia which took place in 1864 several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. He has never been regarded as one chosen to tell us about the short, but explosive, history of the major 19th century European warsControl Data Company, CDC, and I cannot recall having ever seen a single volume devoted to it so farfor whom he worked. In this book, which forms the basis of It's a new TV drama seriesfascinating tale, Tom Buk-Swienty has done us a service told in reminding us that it had a far greater political impact than we may have appreciatedmixture of technological summary and wry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252769</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy TreglownDronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture Fritz and Memory Since 1936Kurt|rating=3.54|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=With ''Franco’s Crypt'' Jeremy Treglown has taken a highly charged subject – life We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in Spain under Franco 1930s Vienna would want to do – and placed kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it under what comes to some might appear the synagogue choir and at a somewhat revisionist microscopevocational school. His aim appears Kurt has to be twofold: make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to consider cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the nature of collective memoryNazis out, particularly invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the light round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the exhumations younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of mass graves that commenced earlier this centuryan evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz andhis father are, secondlyunknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to examine – Buchenwald and celebrate - Spain’s cultural output during Franco’s years as dictatorthe stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784701157</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek NiemannJohn Henry Phillips|title=A Nazi in the Family: The Hidden Story of an SS Family in Wartime GermanySearch

|summary=It goes almost without saying that sixteenth-century EnglandArchaeology cannot be child's play, at when you're scraping in the height of religious persecutiondirt looking to find what you can find, was often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a pretty perilous agefair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. Queen Mary was notorious for This book is a case of the latter, as our author promises to locate the number topic of Protestants who were burnt at the stake titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for their beliefs during her five-year reignhimself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. A belief widely held by many (depending Latching on your religionto a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, as likely as not) was that during our author has promised to find the forty-five years landing craft that ‘Good Queen Bess’ reigneddelivered him to Normandy, greater toleration held swayand that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. This has recently been disproved beyond doubt by several historiansThe secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, and this book likewise helps to underline the savagery towards Catholics that was endemic under her rulevast majority of whom perished.Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784700053</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David GreeneB09F4CTKJR|title=Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of RussiaFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|genre=Politics and SocietyHistorical Fiction|summary=It's no mistake that the cover later stages of my edition of this book is a photo where World War I and the Trans-Siberian Railway is horizontal in the frame. It's well known for going east-west, left to right across United States has just entered the map of the largest country by far in the worldconflict. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow to the eastern stretches of Russia, it could only be a long, thin line across the cover, as it Petrol Petronus is in our imagination of it as a form of transport young American who has signed up and a travel destination in its own rightjoined the 17 Aero Squadron. So when this book mentions it as This company was the spine or backbone of Russia a couple of times, that's got first US Aero Squadron to be of a prone Russia – one lying downtrained in Canada, 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 the first to be quite a definite verdict, as well as a slight indictment. It's no mistake either for this cover attached to have people in the frame alongside the train carriages, for the people met both riding RAF and living alongside the tracks of first to be sent into the Railway are definitely skies to fight the ribs of Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the piecenotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Bates0578761718|title=1815: Regency Britain in the Year The Inspiring History of Waterlooa Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver

|summary=The idea church of taking a pivotal year St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the past and devoting original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a whole book to design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the themefire and then survived for centuries until World War II, embracing politicalwhen it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, social and military historythe stones from the church's walls were transported to Fulton, is a very interesting oneMissouri. Stephen Bates did so successfully not long ago with ‘Two Nations: Britain There, in 1846’the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and here he does the same again, taking today serves as a step three decades backmemorial to Winston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858217</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lena Mukhina and Amanda Love Darragh (translator)1784385166|title=The Diary of Lena MukhinaThird Reich in 100 Objects: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=If life as a girl of school-leaving age is hard enough, think about it when you're stuck in a great city under a horrendous siege. Lena Mukhina's diary only covers half the 800-odd days the nightmare in Leningrad lasted, but so palpably singular were the circumstances that it feels like one is given the clearest insight into what it was like, courtesy of these pages. I've been there and never felt the ghost of the siege in the modern St Petersburg, anything like (for example) the ruination of Warsaw had lived on. But a dreadful time this was. At the peak times Material History of Nazi oppression and aerial bombing, the city lost 2 or 3 residents' lives ''every minute'' of the day on average. The city was desperate for fuel, and food – and this is a place where it can – and does here – snow in June. Without giving too much of the diet away, it's notable that later on Lena dreams of having a menagerie of small animals to live with – but no dogs or cats.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144726987X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGermany|author=Jerry White|title=Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World WarRoger Moorhouse

|summary=It seems What is the first image that only recently, with comes to mind when you think of the centenary Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of the outbreak these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the First World War upon us, Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and images from that historians have really looked thoroughly at the social history aspect and the effect it had on the population at hometime may be less familiar to you. Jerry WhiteIn this short volume, who Roger Moorhouse has already made a study attempted to illustrate the period of London over the last three centuries or so in previous titles, now turns his attention to life in the capital during those momentous four yearsThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556049</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David EsterlyLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=The Lost CarvingTiananmen 1989: A Journey to Our Shattered Hopes|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I never really followed the events of 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 hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the 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. This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the Heart whole season of Makingprotests back in 1989.|isbn=1684056993}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday

|summary=Kaiser Wilhelm II is well known and not for the best The path of reasons and heClara Dorothy Bewick's certainly over-shadowed his six younger siblingslife was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. John Van der Kiste's first biography At the time she was just three-years-old but because of his fathersome childhood ailment, Kaiser Friedrich III she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and he has also written about Emperor Wilhelm II so he is well placed to write about the three youngest children Kaiser Friedrich brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and Victoriasaw that she received a good education, Princess Royalboth in and out of school. She was the only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. Originally he intended to write about Friedrich's second daughterBy contrast, but it quickly became obvious that her family had become pioneer farmers in the most satisfying biography mid- for reader west of the United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and author - her grandparents eventually went to join the family. Clara would be only know her mother for a biography of Victoriafew months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, Sophie seven surviving children and Margaretdied in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, their mother's ''kleebatt'' or trio, as they were knowna heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00QKROC9W</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Weight1783784350|title=MODThis Golden Fleece: From Bebop to Britpop, A Journey Through Britain's Biggest Youth MovementKnitted History|author=Esther Rutter

|summary=It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she''Mod'' is arguably a rather-overused termd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. First January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of allthe British Isles with occasional forays abroad, there is discovering and telling the matter story of establishing a precise definitionwool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - 'Modernism'', which was soon abbreviated for convenience, began as the workinga free-class movement of a newly affluent nation. Once range child on the age of immediate postfarm'' -war austerity was goneand learned to spin, the cult of a youth keen to shake off the drab conformity of life in 1950s Britain took holdknit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. It This was more than anything else an amalgam of American music and European fashions, beginning as a popular cult and gradually becoming a mainstream culturein her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099597888</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)1789017977|title=Massacre in NorwayRonnie and Hilda's Romance: The 2011 Terror Attack on Oslo and the Utoya Youth CampTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating=2.54

|summary=Anders Behring Breivik Ronnie Williams was 32 when he both planted a van bomb in Oslothe son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's central government district some doubt as to hit out at what whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he thought was 'Cultural Marxism', which killed 8, then left for an island claimed to have been born in a lake 24 miles away1863, where but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a notably political youth gathering was enjoying itselffew years off his age. He gunned down 69 people – more than one For a while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in ten of those at the camp – 1929 Depression and wounded many scores morefive-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. He also spammed countless people with another of One thing he did inherit from his projects, a lengthy manifesto declaring father was his ideas about Islamisation need to be well-turned-out and what he saw as a pernicious multiculturalism ruining this would stay with him throughout his countrylife. His case He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1980891117|title=G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating=4.5|genre=Art|summary=George Engleheart was one of the more superlative events in modern Nordic history – as leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. He was also one of the surprisingly lenient sentence for most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over 70 lives twenty of just 21 yearsthem being of King George III). This is, as you'd expect, one Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the many books names of each of his clients, and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to result from the caseas his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612346685</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Jones1789016304|title=Magna CartaWar and Love: The Making A family's testament of anguish, endurance and Legacy of the Great Charterdevotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin

|summary=For Melanie Martin read about what do we – happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by courtesy of a lengthy timeline in historywhat she discovered, would the Americans likewise – most likely owe thanks to a spigurnel? What is the most revered legal document particularly in history, which sets out the rights ''The Diary of man – Ann Frank'' but also has time to talk about widowsthen realised that her own family' rights, fish trapss stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, but only five thousand survived and to Martin could not understand how this could be both sexist and allowed to discuss the importance happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Most people's estates to debts owed Jewish moneylenders? What will probably 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 the only notable historical experience of Britain Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in 1215the way that it did, when we finally get diverted from thinking about WWI and discuss but initial protests melted away as the 800 years organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of something else, even though the authority tens of no less than the Pope declared it null and void within ten weeks thousands of its being finished?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858853</amazonuk>individual tragedies.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Iain Gately1908745819|title=Rush Hour|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Rush Hour. 500 Million commuters go through it every day, 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 tube, or trying to navigate busy country lanes in order to do the school run 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>}}{{newreviewSurfacing|author=James Evans|title=Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England Kathleen Jamie|rating=4.5

|summary=We tend 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 book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to associate the golden age hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of global navigation and exploration with the Elizabethan age and such luminaries as Drakeauthor considering ''an older, Raleigh and Hawkinsless tethered sense of herself. '' This book does us all Older. Less tethered. That's not a service in reminding us bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the original pioneersnatural world, of those aspects of the poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, whom they overshadowed and who seem less well-remembered these dayssubstance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780221029</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Marriott0857058320|title=A History of Lord Of All the World in NumbersDead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|summary=Make no mistake, this book does what it says on the cover. That also goes to say that it is ''notLord Of All the Dead'' A History of is a journey to uncover the World author''of'' Numbers, or A History of the Worlds lost ancestor's Numbers life and what they might mean, as other books providedeath. This Cercas is a primer of searching for the worldmeaning behind his great uncle's history, right from the earliest days of civilisation up to death in the close of World Spanish Civil War Two. Manuel Mena, in handy bite-sized chunksCercas' great uncle, where is the figure who looms large over the headline data can 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 given using a numberhero whilst having fought for the wrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432175</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008294011|title=Serving the ReichHow to Lose a Country: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Philip BallEce Temelkuran

|summary=Picture yourself A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in Nazi Germany, at any time of years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the Reichquestion 's powers'Discuss the factors which led to... What do you do, and how do you behave? '' Do you recognise the fact Jews are being oppressed I agreed that she was right and have been since the first days of the Nazi regime? wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. Do you I think now that I do anything about this, or know. We are you aware in danger of the problems the country has had due to losing the Great War democracy and having the whole Weimar Republic and hyperinflation, and just look after number one? Now picture yourself as whilst it's a scientist. All youflawed system I can've known your adult life has been to furthering your knowledge int think of a better one, say, physics. Do you again work purely for your own ends? For particularly as the country's – knowing all about its rulers? Or can you segregate your bosses and their leaders from your needs, and perhaps seek knowledge for the sake of the world? Itbenevolent dictator's probably not a conundrum that has hit you before, given its scientific bent, but itis as rare as hen's worth looking at what was going on at that timeteeth. Which way did Planck walk? Did Heisenberg have principles?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581647</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=SlideshowThe Fraternity of the Estranged: Memories of a Wartime ChildhoodThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Marjorie Ann WattsBrian Anderson|rating=3.5

|summary=''Slideshow'' may seem an unusual title Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for a book about growing up 82 years. But during the Second World Warthis time, but author Marjorie Ann Watts is quick to explain why it was chosenrestrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Her job as a book illustrator and artist requires astute observation skills Between 1891 and she has what might be known as a 'photographic memory'1908, 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 three books on the accumulated silt nature of memoryhomosexuality appeared...there it isThey were written by two homosexual men: a varnish-clear image Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as vivid well as the day it heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was recordedcommon on the European Continent, however long agobut barely talked about in the UK, so the 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>0704373599</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1910593508|title=Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing FieldsApollo|author=Wendy LowerMatt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=3.5

|summary=If one were This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to describe the Nazi regime with one's own adjectives, I'm sure that sooner or laterMoon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, after all the ruder Chris Baker and more pejorative emotional ones had been thought of, 'masculine' would come upMike Collins. Let's face it, it would be This is a scholar who could name any leading female Nazis beyond Eva Braun story we know well and Mrs Goebbelsbecause of this, who nobody I think has ever put at the forefront of actual policy, thinking or actionsauthors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. But there were females at These shortcuts are the front – many thousands, it seems, taking themselves away from Germany with ideas of only downside to the book. If you''Lebensraum'' being opened up out East; moving their skills as either secretary, nurse, teacher or just willing ''Hausfrau'' to ve ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the occupied territories, where… well, slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that would be tellingdialogue has been trimmed. This book is the one to read if you want a graphic novel that told, but it doesn't do it in the most brilliant waycould easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572281</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard|author=Rochus Misch|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=I am proud to declare an interest in all things Holocaust, one of the key areas of which was the last days of Hitler – the Downfall, if you like, way before youtube satirists. So this book, from the man who for some unspecified years was the last eye-witness to have been in the Fuhrerbunker at the end of the Nazi regime, was always going to be a great read. It remained that even after the foreword dismissed its own book, pointing out differences here to the canon of thought about the timings etc of April/May 1945, and declaring the author somewhat naïve in not being so aware, circumspect and authoritative about the major points of WWII.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848327498</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1786331047|title=The Making of Home|author=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 Race to Save the ‘dry, grey’ place she had come from, because there was ‘no place like home’. Romanovs: The girl was Dorothy, while Truth Behind the people around her were the citizens of Oz – and, yes, it was all fiction, 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 and Will Never DieSecret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Alex WernerHelen Rappaport|rating=45

|summary=It has been over 125 years since The basic facts about the first Sherlock Holmes story was written deaths of Nicholas and since then, the character has been subject to countless interpretations on stageAlexandra, screen and in literature. Such was the popularity some of the famous detective, that his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, attempted on more than one occasion to 'free himself' from Holmes, the most notable example being his 'death' which were deliberately obscured at Reichenbach Falls. Readers were most upset and Doyle eventually bowed to public pressure, reviving the eponymous hero time for further adventuresvarious reasons, have long since been established. In For the years that followed, Holmes took on a life independent last few months of his author, as his stories were adapted for stage their lives in Russia the former Tsar and film. An unconcerned Doyle allowed free rein with the characterTsarina, famously saying: 'You may marry or murder or do whatever you like with him.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958725</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Witches: James I their children and the English Witch Hunts|author=Tracy Borman|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=Gossip is as old as human nature, but generally harmless. It was a different matter few remaining servants were held in medieval times, when what might start as relatively innocuous tittle-tattle could breed suspicion, paranoiaincreasingly squalid, and ultimately accusations against women and girls of witchcrafthumiliating captivity. More often than notTo prevent them from being rescued, it would end in a horrible July 1918 the revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to death by execution - drowningin circumstances which, strangulation on once the gallows, or being burned alive. The unsavoury business of witchcraft trials in early seventeenth-century England news was encouraged by King James Iconfirmed beyond all doubt, who with his obsession with and knowledge of the black arts and his firm belief horrified their relatives in the threat of demonic forces believed that witches had been responsible for fierce storms that had come close to drowning his future bride on her voyage by sea from Scotland to EnglandEurope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954914X</amazonuk>