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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 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 mysteries end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the wildest parts stones from the church's walls were transported to Fulton, Missouri. There, in the grounds of our worldWestminster College, the church was rebuilt and also given us an understanding today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784385166|title=The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of what it Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating=5|genre=History|summary=What is like the first image that comes to mind when you think of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and images from that time may be faced less familiar to you. In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the period of the Third Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts. }}{{Frontpage|author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=Tiananmen 1989: 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 most terrible conditions weeks of protests and still have hunger strikes from the determination students before the massacre and grit to carry 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 oneither side. This book could be viewed as is practically flawless in giving a taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some general browser's context for the whole season of the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justiceprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910985880</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Hailstone0648684806|title=Berlin in the Cold WarClara Colby: 1959 to 1966The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday

|summary=''Berlin It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in the Cold War: 1959-1966her office job, writing to people she'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the city during this periodd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The images provide an insight into job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the changing nature length and breadth of the divide between East British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of wool's history and West Berlin how it had made and changed the landscape. She'd grown up on a glimpse into life sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the city during the Cold Warfarm'' - and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445672901</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alan Moorehead1789017977|title= The Russian Revolution|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= First published in 1958, MoorheadRonnie and Hilda's account is regarded as one of the most succinct accounts of its subject, and now reprinted to mark the centenary of the revolution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445667320</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRomance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Adrian Mourby|title=Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great HotelsWendy Williams

|genre=TravelHistory|summary=Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with Ronnie Williams was the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something son of an overall pictureThomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. So what makes a hotel There'grands some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry'? The first hotel s birthdate: he claimed to call itself 'grand' have been born in 1863, but he was in covent Garden in 1774 already many years older than Ethel and it ushered in the beginning of he might well have shaved a period when few years off his age. For a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and while the family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in different circumstances the 1929 Depression and each faced five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different set of challengeslifestyle. We begin in the Americas, move One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia be well-turned-out and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asiathis would stay with him throughout his life. Australia, it seems, does not go for He joined the grandarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785782754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip Matyszak1980891117|title=24 Hours G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in Ancient Romethe life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley

|summary= I've never been that interested Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in Ancient Rome. Blame my teachersoccupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, or our oh-so-dry visits to Roman villas with their earnest interpretation panels, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all the interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with the impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend them. particularly in ''Mea culpaThe Diary of Ann Frank'', you might say. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszakbut then realised that her own family's ''24 Hours in Ancient Rome''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 its claim Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to introduce readers happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Most people believed that the real Ancient Rome by examining occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the lives of ordinary peoplecity were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, I decided that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it was high time to update my educationdid, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. And the lovely artwork It's an atrocity on the front cover a vast scale but made this book all the more appealingup of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438564</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon Bennett Connolly1908745819|title= Heroines of the Medieval WorldSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating= 5|genre= History|summary= Many women in medieval times left 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 mark on historyword, or not, but as rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the book. That's a rule they have been neglected by biographers and historians as there is too little surviving information for them to have even brief biographies to themselvesrare experience. Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution People who are sensitive to the problem by writing hearing a general account on a broadly thematic basisbook calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662647</amazonuk>}}{{newreview| The blurb speaks of the author= Kurt Andersen|title= Fantasyland|rating= 4|genre= History |summary= Fantasyland covers the history considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of America from 1517 where I am. Add to 2017 in awesome detail. Covering five centuries that my love of tempestuous historythe natural world, Andersen paints of those aspects of the conjuring poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of America in vivid reliefall, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. It was written for me. Discussing everything from pilgrims It would have found its way to politicians, the exhilarating gold rush me eventually. I am pleased to alternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp withave it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785038656</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Twigs Way0857058320|title=Tea Gardens Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (Britain's Heritage Seriestranslator)

|genre=LifestyleHistory|summary=Tea Gardens really began in London in ''Lord Of All the late 18th century: Dead'' is a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the country meaning behind his great uncle's death in those daysthe Spanish Civil War. Men had their coffee housesManuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, but they were not places where women could or would be seen. Tea was introduced to England in is the 17th century but it was not until 1784 that figure who looms large over the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea became the drink of choice book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for the nationthis dictator. Until then The question at the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where would centre of this beverage be drunk? One answer was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to see and be seen: by a hero whilst having fought for the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardenswrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445670011</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nathen Amin0008294011|title=The House of BeaufortHow to Lose a Country: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The family name of Beaufort played A little while ago a major part friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in British years to come would be discussed by A level history during students when faced with the question ''Discuss the fourteenth factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and fifteenth centurieswasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. It therefore seems remarkable I think now that little has been written about them until I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the appearance of this book'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rory Stewart1788037812|title= The MarchesFraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating= 5|genre= TravelHistory|summary= The Observer quote on Originally passed in 1885, the front of the paperback edition of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finestlaw that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years.'' PerhapsBut during this time, but to call it travel writing is to totally underrestrictions on same-sell itsex relationships did not go unchallenged. This is erudition at its finestBetween 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. Stewart has the background to do thisThey were written by two homosexual men: he had an international upbringing Edward Carpenter and followed his father in both John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the Army margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the Foreign OfficeEuropean Continent, and then (but barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to his father's, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Ohthe scientific understanding of homosexuality, and he walked 6beginning the struggle for recognition and equality,000 miles across Afghanistan leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581892</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Josh Dean1910593508|title=The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in HistoryApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins

|summary=In February 1968 This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left Moon landings and the port of Petropavlovsk on passion for the Kamchatka peninsula with subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a crew story we know well and because of 98 submariners. The captain and executive officers were experienced: this, the only factor giving cause for concern was authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the crew had only recently returned downside to base and were expecting a longer break and were only back at sea because two sister ships had experienced mechanical problems and were unfit for combat controls. The Division Commander complained that the decision was cruel and potentially recklessbook. He would If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be proved right - but not publicly - as K-129 went down familiar with all hands in March 1968the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. It was This is a while before the sSoviet navy realised graphic novel that it had lost one of its submarines could easily have been three times as long and despite an extensive search they couldn't find itstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445674742</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage<!-- Parker -->*[[image:Parker_50.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784937908?ieisbn=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784937908]]1786331047|title===[[50 Things You Should Know About The Race to Save the Vikings by Philip Parker]]=== [[imageRomanovs:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ChildrenThe Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Non-FictionImperial Family|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Confident Readersauthor=Helen Rappaport|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Historyrating=5|genre=History]] |summary=The Vikings basic facts about the deaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, some of which were deliberately obscured at the time for various reasons, have got a lot to own up tolong since been established. A huge DNA study in 2014 was For the first thing that proved to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood last few months of their lives in their veins – they had been insisting it was that of Russia the Irish. The Vikings it was that forced our English king's army to march from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasionformer Tsar and Tsarina, only to spend the next fortnight schlepping back to Hastings to try their children and fend off another – and the Normans had the same Norse origin as the first lotfew remaining servants were held in increasingly squalid, hence the namehumiliating captivity. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far To prevent them from being rescued, in July 1918 the coast – that has a Viking longship on its signpost. Yes, they got revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to a lot of placesdeath in circumstances which, from Greenland to Kiev, from Murmansk to Turkey and once the Mednews was confirmed beyond all doubt, and horrified their misaligned history is well worth visiting – particularly on these pagesrelatives in Europe. [[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma KayWoolf_Great|title=Vintage KitchenaliaThe Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration|author=Jo Woolf

|summary=Over Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the half century lives and more that I've been preparing meals on a regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something you didachievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the mysteries of the wildest parts of our world, to and also given us an obsession akin to a religion. My first kitchen had nothing in the way understanding of luxury - what it was there is like to make meals as nutritiously be faced with the most terrible conditions and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not ''quite'' state of still have the art, but it's equipped to a high standard determination and is a pleasure grit to work incarry on. But what of all the equipment which went before, This book could be viewed as a taster which paved the way encourages us to what we have now? Emma Kay is going to give you a quick trip through seek out and read more about some of the historymost iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445657511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martyn BeardsleyMourby_Rooms|title= Waterloo Voices 1815Rooms with a View: The Battle at First HandSecret Life of Great Hotels|author=Adrian Mourby|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of Waterloofifty grand hotels, fought on a midsummer day on a muddy field from fourteen regions of the world, with the hotels in Belgiumeach section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, brought which helps to give something of an end overall picture. So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to two decades call itself 'grand' was in Covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning of war a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in Europedifferent circumstances and each faced a different set of challenges. As one of We begin in the pivotal events of Americas, move to the nineteenth centuryUnited Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australia, it has inevitably been the focus of many accounts over seems, does not go for the last two hundred yearsgrand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah RutherfordHailstone_Berlin|title=Landscape GardensBerlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966|author=Allan Hailstone

|genre=ArtHistory|summary=My first experience of a ''bigBerlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' garden was Versailles as a teenager and whilst I was impressed, I didn't really like it. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed contains almost 200 photographs taken by author/photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the flatness of it allcity during this period. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardens. It would be many years before I revised my opinion. On a trip to Harewood House it was too hot a day to be corralled The images provide an insight into the house, so I wandered changing nature of the gardens divide between East and West Berlin and found they were delightful. I felt uplifted. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me glimpse into life in the opportunity to walk city during the grounds for over an hourCold War. 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 MaconieMoorehead_Russian|title= Long Road From JarrowThe Russian Revolution|ratingauthor= 5Alan Moorehead|genrerating= Travel |summary= I cancelled my The author was writing from a slightly different stance from most other historians. Only a decade after the end of the Second World War, he was basing his account on the premise that the Nazis'rise to power in Germany was connected with the heritage that Lenin had left behind, and that without Stalin'Country Walking'' magazine subscription about s assurances of support Hitler would never have dared to plunge the world into such a year ago and the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconiedevastating global conflict. It was his belief that America's column. His downpost-to-earth approach war commitments in Europe and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect the Far East, and a soul more sensitive than he might other post-1945 developments, could also be willing traced back to admitthe events of 1917. Let's be honest, though, I picked this one up because Much of someone else's review, in his material came from German archives which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffewere saved from destruction when the Third Reich was on the brink of collapse. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I These documents that the German government would have no connection (that I know kept private had they won the war provided full detail on the attempts of) their forebears to pave the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''a whole matrix of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at leastway for chaos and revolution in their Asiatic neighbour.|amazonukgenre=History|summary=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicky HaywardAnderson_Fantasyland|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookFantasyland|author=Kurt Andersen

|genre=CookeryHistory|summary=In 1745 a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published Fantasyland covers the first edition history of his ''New Art America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detail. Covering five centuries of Cookerytempestuous history, Drawn From Andersen paints the School conjuring of Economic Experience''America in vivid relief. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meatDiscussing everything from pilgrims to politicians, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. The style was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimed, not at those who could afford the exhilarating gold rush to cook on a grand scalealternative facts, but at those seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbers. Whilst the ingredients were razor- for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination of flavours and aromas. Spices are used conservatively and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras' own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New Worldsharp wit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442279419</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susan Duxbury-NeumannWay_Tea|title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great Tea Gardens (Britain|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some time to provide a full answer, and this slim but useful volume does so very well. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664860</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gillian Tindall|title= The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=This book traces the course of historical journeys across the city in time and space, examining how the areas above the new Crossrail route, the largest building project currently under construction in Europe offering high speed links across London, have changed over the centuries, with destruction and renewal being a constantly recurring process in the city's history. It is a fascinating, compellingly readable exploration through the historical highways and byways of the metropolis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587793</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHeritage Series)|author=Jonathan Trigg|title=Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS: The Final Testament of the OostfrontersTwigs Way|rating=3.54

|summary=In Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to the week I write thiscountry in those days. Men had their coffee houses, Trump has come under fire for but they were not condemning fascistic behaviour places where women could or would be seen. Tea was introduced to England in America from some Neo-Nazis. It strikes me the 17th century but it was not until 1784 that the ''Neo-'' is a pointless dignification – yes, they cannot be deemed high duty was reduced from 119% to follow Hitler precisely as he's long dead 12½% and burnt, so they're kind tea became the drink of new, but common sense obliges me to just call them Nazischoice for the nation. Their excuse is they feel America has been invaded by Until then the enemy – but what if you were indeed under occupation? Could you see yourself working for the forces that classes had indeed invaded you? The author begins been fuelled largely by pointing out that several countries were invaded by the Nazischeap gin. Only, and they have different feelings about where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was the people who worked against pleasure gardens where the commonly-held nationalistic aim. France hates her collaborators, but just north of the border things are different – fashionable went to see and be seen: by the picture is a lot more muddy mid-1600s tea was also being served in places such as a resultRanelagh Gardens.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>}}Move on to [[Newest Home and Family Reviews]]