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|author= Jo Woolf
|summary=In the week I write this, Trump has come under fire for not condemning fascistic behaviour in America from some Neo-Nazis. It strikes me that the ''Neo-'' is a pointless dignification – yes, they cannot be deemed to follow Hitler precisely as he's long dead and burnt, so they're kind of new, but common sense obliges me to just call them Nazis. Their excuse is they feel America has been invaded by the enemy – but what if you were indeed under occupation? Could you see yourself working for the forces that had indeed invaded you? The author begins by pointing out that several countries were invaded by the Nazis, and they have different feelings about the people who worked against the commonly-held nationalistic aim. France hates her collaborators, but just north of the border things are different – and the picture is a lot more muddy as a result.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Gerard Cheshire
|title= A History of Victorian Postage
|rating= 4.5
|genre= History
|summary=Although we think of postage and the sending of letters as a specifically Victorian innovation, its roots go far deeper than that. This book, which surveys a much broader time frame than the title might suggest, presents us with an admirably concise picture of its development up to its full fruition in the mid-nineteenth century.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664372</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=S Morris and N Grueninger
|title=In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queens
|rating= 5
|genre= History
|summary= It was inevitable that each of the six wives of Henry VIII would have left their mark in some way on the places they lived and visited. This book straddles several categories; history, gazetteer or guide book, and collection of potted biographies.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144567114X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Terry Breverton
|title= Owen Tudor: Founding Father of the Tudor Dynasty
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Biography
|summary= Owen Tudor was one of those shadowy yet very important characters in medieval history. While we may know little about him, or at least did not until this biography appeared, his historical importance can hardly be overestimated. Without him, there would have been no Tudor dynasty.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654180</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Helen Doe
|title= The First Atlantic Liner: Brunel's Great Western Steamship
|rating= 4.5
|genre= History
|summary= Isambard Kingdom Brunel's enduring seafaring monuments were the Great Britain and Great Eastern. Their forerunner the Great Western, which paved the way and yet is now largely forgotten, at last merits a full account in this book. Ms Doe admits at the front that she is not an engineer, and as a maritime historian her interests are more social and economic than technical. Her aim is to tell the story of the ship, that of the people who travelled on her as crew or passengers, and her influence on subsequent maritime history after an existence of barely two decades.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445667207</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (translators)
|title=The Unwomanly Face of War
|rating=5
|genre=History
|summary=''War'', says Svetlana Alexievich, ''is first of all murder, and then hard work. And then simply ordinary life: singing, falling in love, putting your hair in curlers…''. This extraordinary book is a collection of first-hand accounts by Russian fighting women in the Second World War. A million women joined Russian military forces as soldiers of all ranks, medics, pilots, drivers, snipers, cryptographers. Most were very young, little more than girls of 18 or 19. They were passionate about defending their homeland and often extremely keen to join up, returning again and again to recruitment offices until someone could be persuaded to take them. Their ambition was to help their brothers, fathers, husbands to fight the terrible invader. They were trained and sent to the front, where they were greeted at first with disappointment and disgust by fighting men, who had hoped for reinforcements of able-bodied men. The women had to prove themselves.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141983523</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Andrew Lacey
|title= The English Civil War in 100 Facts
|rating= 4.5
|genre= History
|summary= The '100 Facts' series is now sufficiently well-established as a guarantee of useful introductory histories. This latest addition, recounting the struggle between King and Parliament, is no exception.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445649950</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lauren Elkin
|title=Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=Lauren Elkin is down on suburbs: they're places where you can't or shouldn't be seen walking; places where, in fiction, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking of everything from ''Madame Bovary'' to ''Revolutionary Road''). When she imagines to herself what the female version of that well-known historical figure, the carefree ''flâneur'', might be, she thinks about women who freely wandered the world's great cities without having the more insalubrious connotation of the word 'streetwalker' applied to them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593378</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Jeffrey James
|title= Ireland: The Struggle for Power: From the Dark Ages to the Jacobites
|rating= 4.5
|genre= History
|summary= The 'Irish troubles' go back over many centuries. When I and doubtless many others of my generation studied History at school, the Emerald Isle barely intruded on our consciousness, apart from brief references to the Battle of the Boyne and maybe the Easter Rising. This book therefore does us, and the country, a service in helping to fill a very large gap.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662469</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Michael Hicks
|title= The Family of Richard III
|rating= 4
|genre= History
|summary= New titles about the Yorkist dynasty, which ruled England for little more than two decades, continue to proliferate. Michael Hicks, acknowledged as one of the great – although never sympathetic – experts on Richard III, has contributed an interesting chronicle to the shelves.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660156</amazonuk>
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