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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jo Woolf0578761718|title= The Great Horizon: 50 Tales Inspiring History of Explorationa Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating= 34.5|genre= History|summary= Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set The church of fifty short insights into St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the lives and achievements City of some amazingly brave peopleLondon from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the mysteries of fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn't the wildest parts end of our worldits story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, and also given us an understanding of what it is like the stones from the church's walls were transported to be faced with Fulton, Missouri. There, in the most terrible conditions and still have grounds of Westminster College, the determination church was rebuilt and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed today serves as a taster which encourages us memorial to seek out and read more about some of the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justiceWinston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910985880</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Hailstone1784385166|title=Berlin The Third Reich in the Cold War100 Objects: 1959 to 1966A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating=45

|summary=''Berlin in What is the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits first image that comes to mind when you think of the city during this period. Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images provide an insight into the changing nature but they are emblematic of the divide between East Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in images from that time may be less familiar to you. In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the city during period of the Cold WarThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445672901</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alan MooreheadLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= The Russian RevolutionTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryGraphic Novels|summary= First published I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in 1958the second half of their teens has other priorities, Moorheadyou know. I certainly didn's account is regarded as one t know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the most succinct accounts birth of its subjectthe Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and now reprinted to mark I didn't know more than a spit about the centenary people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of the revolutionprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445667320</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Mourby0648684806|title=Rooms with a ViewClara Colby: The Secret Life of Great HotelsInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday

|genre=TravelBiography|summary=Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with USA. At the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by regiontime she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, which helps she wasn't allowed to give something of an overall picturesail with her parents and three brothers. So what makes Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was good education, both in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning out of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearbyschool. The hotels we visit all began life She was the only child in different circumstances the household and each faced a different set of challengesher childhood was glorious. We begin By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the Americas, move to mid-west of the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia States and Turkey then northern Africalife was hard, India as Clara was to find out when she and Asiaher grandparents eventually went to join the family. AustraliaClara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, it seemshad ten pregnancies, does seven surviving children and died in childbirth not go for long after Clara arrived. As the grandeldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785782754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip Matyszak1783784350|title=24 Hours in Ancient RomeThis Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=4.5

|summary= IIt was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she've d never been that interested in Ancient Romemet and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. Blame my teachers, or our oh-so-dry visits January was going to Roman villas be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with their earnest interpretation panelsoccasional forays abroad, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all discovering and telling the interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend themlandscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - 'Mea culpa'a free-range child on the farm', you might say. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours in Ancient Rome'', - and its claim to introduce readers learned to the real Ancient Rome by examining the lives of ordinary peoplespin, I decided it knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was high time to update my education. And the lovely artwork on the front cover made this book all the more appealingin her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438564</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon Bennett Connolly1789017977|title= Heroines of the Medieval World|rating= 5|genre= History|summary= Many women in medieval times left their mark on history, but as a rule they have been neglected by biographers Ronnie and historians as there is too little surviving information for them to have even brief biographies to themselves. Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution to the problem by writing Hilda's Romance: Towards a general account on a broadly thematic basis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662647</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNew Life after World War II|author= Kurt Andersen|title= Fantasyland|rating= 4|genre= History |summary= Fantasyland covers the history of America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detail. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints the conjuring of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians, the exhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785038656</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Twigs Way|title=Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series)Wendy Williams

|genre=LifestyleHistory|summary=Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras Ronnie Williams was effectively a trip to the country in those daysson of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. Men had their coffee houses, but There's some doubt as to whether or not they were not places where women could ever married or would be seen. Tea was introduced even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to England have been born in the 17th century 1863, but it he was not until 1784 that already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. For a while the high duty family was reduced from 119% quite well-to 12½% -do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and tea became the drink of choice for the nation. Until then the working classes five-year-old Ronnie had been fuelled largely by cheap ginto adjust to a very different lifestyle. Only, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer thing he did inherit from his father was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went his need to see be well-turned-out and be seen: by this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the mid 1600s tea was also being served army at eighteen in places such as Ranelagh Gardens1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445670011</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nathen Amin1980891117|title=The House of BeaufortG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: The Bastard Line that Captured A year in the Crownlife of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryArt|summary= The family name George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Beaufort played Georgian London, with a major part in British history during career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. He was also one of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuriesmost prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). It therefore seems remarkable Throughout most of that little has been written about them until time he carefully recorded the appearance names of each of this his clients, and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rory Stewart1789016304|title= The Marches|rating= 5|genre= Travel|summary= The Observer quote on the front of the paperback edition of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhaps, but to call it travel writing is to totally under-sell it. This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has the background to do thisWar and Love: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both the Army and the Foreign Office, and then (to his fatherA family'stestament of anguish, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Oh, endurance and he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan devotion in 2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581892</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewoccupied Amsterdam|author=Josh Dean|title=The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in HistoryMelanie Martin

|summary=In February 1968 the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left the port 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 Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula with a crew of 98 submarinersAnn Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. The captain A hundred and executive officers seven thousand Jews were experienced: deported from the only factor giving cause for concern was that city during the crew had war years, but only recently returned five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to base and were expecting happen in a longer break and country with liberal values who were only back at sea because two sister ships had experienced mechanical problems and were unfit for combat controlsresistant to German occupation. The Division Commander complained Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the decision was cruel and potentially reckless. He Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be proved right - pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it did, but not publicly - initial protests melted away as K-129 went down with all hands in March 1968the organisers became more circumspect. It was 's an atrocity on a while before the sSoviet navy realised that it had lost one vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of its submarines and despite an extensive search they couldn't find itindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445674742</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Parker1908745819|title=50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=The Vikings have got a lot to own up to. A huge DNA study in 2014 was the first thing that proved to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood in their veins – they had been insisting it was that of the Irish. The Vikings it was that forced our English king's army to march from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasion, only to spend the next fortnight schlepping back to Hastings to try and fend off another – and the Normans had the same Norse origin as the first lot, hence the name. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from the coast – that has a Viking longship on its signpost. Yes, they got to a lot of places, from Greenland to Kiev, from Murmansk to Turkey and the Med, and their misaligned history is well worth visiting – particularly on these pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937908</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSurfacing|author=Emma Kay|title=Vintage KitchenaliaKathleen Jamie|rating=3.5

|summary=Over the half century and more Sometimes when people suggest that I've been preparing meals on you read a regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something certain book, they tell you did, to an obsession akin to a religion. My first kitchen had nothing in the way of luxury - it was there to make meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not ''quitethis one has your name on it'' state of the art. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless itturns out that we didn't like the book. That's equipped a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a high standard and is a pleasure to work inbook calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. But what The blurb speaks of all the equipment which went beforeauthor considering ''an older, which paved the way to what we have now? less tethered sense of herself.'' Emma Kay is going to give you a quick trip through the historyOlder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445657511</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Martyn Beardsley|title= Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First Hand|rating= 4Less tethered.5|genre= History|summary= The battle of Waterloo, fought on a midsummer day on That's not a muddy field in Belgium, brought an end to two decades bad description of war in Europewhere I am. As one Add to that my love of the pivotal events natural world, of those aspects of the nineteenth centurypoetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it has inevitably been the focus of many accounts over the last two hundred years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk> 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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Rutherford0857058320|title=Landscape GardensLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|genre=ArtHistory|summary=My first experience of a ''bigLord Of All the Dead'' garden was Versailles as is a teenager journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and whilst I was impresseddeath. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, I didnCercas't really like it. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the flatness of it allbook. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardensHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. It would be many years before I revised my opinionCercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. On a trip to Harewood House The question at the centre of this book is whether it was too hot a day is possible for his great uncle to be corralled into the house, so I wandered the gardens and found they were delightful. I felt uplifted. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me hero whilst having fought for the opportunity to walk the grounds for over an hourwrong side. I was completely won over and a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him in context.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445669935</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stuart Maconie0008294011|title= Long Road From JarrowHow to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating= 4.5|genre= Travel History|summary= A little while ago a friend asked me if I cancelled my thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Country WalkingDiscuss the factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn' magazine subscription about t certain whether it was a year ago and the only good or bad thing I miss is Stuart Maconiethat we didn's column. His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Lett know what all 's be honest, though, I picked this one up because of someone else's review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up inwas leading to. Like Maconie I have no connection (think now that I do know . We are in danger of) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about losing democracy and whilst it being 's a flawed system I can't think of a whole matrix of events reducible to better one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreaveparticularly as the 'benevolent dictator'is as rare as hen' then somehow it does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at leasts teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicky Hayward1788037812|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art The Fraternity of Cookerythe Estranged: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=45|genre=CookeryHistory|summary=In 1745 Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a Spanish friary cookcrime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, Juan Altamirasrestrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, published the first edition of his ''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From three books on the School nature of Economic Experience''homosexuality appeared. It contained more than They were written by two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and fresh fishJohn Addington Symonds, vegetables and dessertsas well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. The style was informal, chatty Exploring the margins of society and humorous on occasions and it studying homosexuality was aimed, not at those who could afford to cook common on a grand scalethe European Continent, but at those with more modest budgetsbarely talked about in the UK, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbers. Whilst so the ingredients publications of these men were - for hugely significant – contributing to the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination scientific understanding of flavours homosexuality, and aromas. Spices are used conservatively beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the bluntness milestone legalisation of some Moorish cooking is eschewed same-sex relationships in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras' own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New World1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442279419</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susan Duxbury-Neumann1910593508|title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great BritainApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some time This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to provide the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a full answerstory we know well and because of this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and this slim but useful volume does so very wellthat dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664860</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gillian Tindall1786331047|title= The Tunnel Through TimeRace to Save the Romanovs: A New Route for an Old London JourneyThe Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=This book traces The basic facts about the course deaths of historical journeys across the city in time Nicholas and spaceAlexandra, examining how some of which were deliberately obscured at the areas above the new Crossrail routetime for various reasons, have long since been established. For the largest building project currently under construction last few months of their lives in Europe offering high speed links across London, have changed over Russia the centuriesformer Tsar and Tsarina, with destruction their children and renewal being a constantly recurring process few remaining servants were held in the city's historyincreasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. It is a fascinatingTo prevent them from being rescued, compellingly readable exploration through in July 1918 the historical highways revolutionary regime had them all shot and byways of bayoneted to death in circumstances which, once the metropolisnews was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587793</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan TriggWoolf_Great|title=Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SSThe Great Horizon: The Final Testament 50 Tales of the OostfrontersExploration|author=Jo Woolf

|summary=In Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the week I write this, Trump has come under fire for not condemning fascistic behaviour in America from lives and achievements of some Neo-Nazisamazingly brave people. It strikes me that Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the ''Neo-'' is a pointless dignification – yesmysteries of the wildest parts of our world, they cannot be deemed to follow Hitler precisely as he's long dead and burnt, so they're kind also given us an understanding of new, but common sense obliges me what it is like to just call them Nazis. Their excuse is they feel America has been invaded by be faced with the enemy – but what if you were indeed under occupation? Could you see yourself working for most terrible conditions and still have the forces that had indeed invaded you? The author begins by pointing determination and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as a taster which encourages us to seek out that several countries were invaded by the Nazis, and they have different feelings read more about some of the people who worked against the commonly-held nationalistic aimmost iconic explorers. France hates her collaborators, but just north of the border things Their stories are different – pretty incredible and the picture is a lot more muddy as a resultWoolf does them justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gerard CheshireMourby_Rooms|title= A History Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Victorian PostageGreat Hotels|author=Adrian Mourby|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=Although we think Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of postage an overall picture. So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was in Covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the sending beginning of letters as a specifically Victorian innovation, its roots go far deeper period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than thata refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearby. This book, which surveys The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a much broader time frame than different set of challenges. We begin in the title might suggestAmericas, presents us with an admirably concise picture of its development up move to its full fruition in the mid-nineteenth centuryUnited Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australia, it seems, does not go for the grand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664372</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S Morris and N GrueningerHailstone_Berlin|title=In the Footsteps of Berlin in the Six Wives of Henry VIIICold War: The visitor's companion 1959 to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queens1966|author=Allan Hailstone|rating= 54|genre= History|summary= It was inevitable that each of ''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author/photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the city during this period. The images provide an insight into the six wives changing nature of Henry VIII would have left their mark in some way on the places they lived divide between East and visited. This book straddles several categories; history, gazetteer or guide book, West Berlin and collection of potted biographiesa glimpse into life in the city during the Cold War. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>144567114X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Terry BrevertonMoorehead_Russian|title= Owen Tudor: Founding Father of the Tudor DynastyThe Russian Revolution|ratingauthor= 4.5Alan Moorehead|genrerating= Biography|summary= Owen Tudor The author was one writing from a slightly different stance from most other historians. Only a decade after the end of those shadowy yet very important characters the Second World War, he was basing his account on the premise that the Nazis' rise to power in medieval historyGermany was connected with the heritage that Lenin had left behind, and that without Stalin's assurances of support Hitler would never have dared to plunge the world into such a devastating global conflict. While we may know little about himIt was his belief that America's post-war commitments in Europe and the Far East, or at least did not until this biography appearedand other post-1945 developments, could also be traced back to the events of 1917. Much of his historical importance can hardly be overestimatedmaterial came from German archives which were saved from destruction when the Third Reich was on the brink of collapse. Without him, there These documents that the German government would have been no Tudor dynastykept private had they won the war provided full detail on the attempts of their forebears to pave the way for chaos and revolution in their Asiatic neighbour.|amazonukgenre=History|summary=<amazonuk>1445654180</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helen DoeAnderson_Fantasyland|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>}}{{newreviewFantasyland|author=Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (translators)|title=The Unwomanly Face of WarKurt Andersen|rating=54

|summary=''War'', says Svetlana Alexievich, ''is first Fantasyland covers the history of all murder, and then hard work. And then simply ordinary life: singing, falling in love, putting your hair America from 1517 to 2017 in curlers…''awesome detail. This extraordinary book is a collection Covering five centuries of first-hand accounts by Russian fighting women in tempestuous history, Andersen paints the Second World War. A million women joined Russian military forces as soldiers conjuring 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 themAmerica in vivid relief. Their ambition was Discussing everything from pilgrims to help their brothers, fatherspoliticians, husbands to fight the terrible invader. They were trained and sent exhilarating gold rush to the frontalternative facts, where they were greeted at first seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with disappointment and disgust by fighting men, who had hoped for reinforcements of ablerazor-bodied men. The women had to prove themselvessharp wit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141983523</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrew LaceyWay_Tea|title= The English Civil War in 100 Facts|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The '100 FactsTea Gardens (Britain' 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>}}{{newreviews Heritage Series)|author=Lauren Elkin|title=Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and LondonTwigs Way

|genre=History |summary=Lauren Elkin is down on suburbsTea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to the country in those days. Men had their coffee houses, but they're were not places where you can't women could or shouldn't would 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 Tea was introduced to herself what England in the female version of 17th century but it was not until 1784 that well-known historical figure, the carefree ''flâneur'', might be, she thinks about women who freely wandered the world's great cities without having high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea became the more insalubrious connotation drink of choice for the word 'streetwalker' applied to themnation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593378</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jeffrey James|title= Ireland: The Struggle for Power: From Until then the Dark Ages to the Jacobites|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The 'Irish troubles' go back over many centuriesworking classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. When I and doubtless many others of my generation studied History at schoolOnly, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was the Emerald Isle barely intruded on our consciousness, apart from brief references pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to the Battle of the Boyne see and maybe be seen: by the Easter Rising. This book therefore does us, and the country, a service mid-1600s tea was also being served in helping to fill a very large gapplaces such as Ranelagh Gardens.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662469</amazonuk>}}{{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 Move on Richard III, has contributed an interesting chronicle to the shelves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660156</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Home and Family Reviews]]