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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Woolf -->*[[image:Woolf_Great.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985880?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985880]] ===[[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the mysteries of the wildest parts of our world, and also given us an understanding of what it is like to be faced with the most terrible conditions and still have the determination and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as a taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some of the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justice. [[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Hailstone -->Frontpage*[[image:Hailstone_Berlin.jpg|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]]0578761718 ===[[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] ''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 changing nature of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in the city during the Cold War. [[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Moorehead -->*[[image:Moorehead_Russian.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445667320?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445667320]] ===[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|Inspiring History]] 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's assurances of support Hitler would never have dared to plunge the world into such a devastating global conflict. It was his belief that America's post-war commitments in Europe and the Far East, and other post-1945 developments, could also be traced back to the events of 1917. Much of his material came from German archives which were saved from destruction when the Third Reich was on the brink of collapse. These documents that the German government would have kept 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.[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Mourby -->*[[image:Mourby_Rooms.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782754]] ===[[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] 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 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 beginning of 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 different circumstances and each faced a different set of challenges. We begin in the Americas, move to the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australia, it seems, does not go for the grand. [[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewSpecial Relationship|author= Philip Matyszak|title=24 Hours in Ancient RomeNancy Carver

|summary= I've never been that interested The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in Ancient Romerecords. Blame my teachersSadly, or our oh-so-dry visits to Roman villas with their earnest interpretation panels, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all the original church was destroyed in the interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty fire and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend themthen survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church'Mea culpa''s walls were transported to Fulton, you might sayMissouri. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours There, in Ancient Rome''the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and its claim today serves as a memorial to introduce readers Winston Churchill.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784385166|title=The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating=5|genre=History|summary=What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of the real Ancient Rome by examining 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 lives of ordinary people, I decided it was high Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to update my educationyou. And In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the lovely artwork on period of the front cover made this book all the more appealingThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438564</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sharon Bennett ConnollyLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= Heroines of the Medieval WorldTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryGraphic Novels|summary= Many women I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in medieval times left the second half of their mark on historyteens 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, but as I didn't know how the area had long been a rule they have been neglected by biographers venue for political protest, and historians as there I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This book is too little surviving information practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for them to have even brief biographies to themselves. Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution to the problem by writing a general account on a broadly thematic basiswhole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445662647</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kurt Andersen0648684806|title= FantasylandClara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating= 4|genre= History Biography|summary= Fantasyland covers The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the history USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of America from 1517 some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to 2017 sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in awesome detailand out of school. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints She was the conjuring of America only child in vivid reliefthe household and her childhood was glorious. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the exhilarating gold rush mid-west of the United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to alternative factsjoin the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, seminal episodes are explored had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in forensic detail with razor sharp witchildbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785038656</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage<!-- Way -->|isbn=1783784350*[[image:Way_Tea.jpg|left|linktitle=httpsThis Golden Fleece://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]] ===[[Tea Gardens (A Journey Through Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=5 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:History|History]] Tea Gardens really began summary=It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in London in the late 18th century: a trip her office job, writing to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to the country in those dayspeople she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. Men had their coffee houses, but they were The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not places where women could or would be seensoothe her mind. Tea January was introduced going to England in the 17th century but it was not until 1784 be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% length and tea became the drink breadth of choice for the nation. Until then British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the working classes story of wool's history and how it had been fuelled largely by cheap ginmade and changed the landscape. Only, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went farm'' - and learned to see spin, knit and weave from her mother and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea her mother's friend. This was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardensher blood. [[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nathen Amin1789017977|title=The House of BeaufortRonnie and Hilda's Romance: The Bastard Line that Captured the CrownTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= The family name Ronnie Williams was the son of Beaufort played Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. For a major part while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in British history during the fourteenth 1929 Depression and fifteenth centuriesfive-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. It therefore seems remarkable that little has been written about them until One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the appearance of this bookarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rory Stewart1980891117|title= The MarchesG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating= 4.5|genre= TravelArt|summary= The Observer quote on the front George Engleheart was one of the paperback edition leading portrait miniaturists of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' PerhapsGeorgian London, but to call it travel writing is to totally under-sell it. This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has with a career lasting from the background 1770s to do this: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both the Army and Regency era. He was also one of the Foreign Officemost prolific, and then painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (to his father's, bemusement, shall we sayover twenty of them being of King George III) became an MP. OhThroughout most of that time he carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, and he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581892</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Josh Dean1789016304|title=The Taking War and Love: A family's testament of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation anguish, endurance and devotion in Historyoccupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie 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>

{{Frontpage|isbn=1908745819|title=Surfacing<!-- Parker -->|author=Kathleen Jamie*[[image:Parker_50.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=https://wwwHistory|summary=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 hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the natural world, of those aspects of the poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. It was written for me.amazonIt would have found its way to me eventually.co I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.uk/gp/product/1784937908?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784937908]]}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0857058320|title==[[50 Things You Should Know About Lord Of All the Vikings by Philip Parker]]Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating=4|genre=History [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's Non-Fiction|Childrenlife and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's Non-Fiction]]death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, [[is the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008294011|title=How to Lose a Country:Category:Confident ReadersThe 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Historyrating=4.5|genre=History]] The Vikings have got |summary=A little while ago a lot friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to own up to. come would be discussed by A huge DNA study in 2014 was level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the first thing that proved factors which led to the Orkney residents ...'' I agreed that they had Viking blood in their veins – they had been insisting it she was that of the Irish. The Vikings right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that forced our English kingwe didn's army to march from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasion, only t know what all 'this' was leading 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 – I think now that has a Viking longship on its signpostI do know. Yes, they got to We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a lot flawed system I can't think of placesa better one, from Greenland to Kiev, from Murmansk to Turkey and particularly as the Med, and their misaligned history 'benevolent dictator' is well worth visiting – particularly on these pagesas rare as hen's teeth. [[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Kay1788037812|title=Vintage KitchenaliaThe Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=3.5

|summary=Over Originally passed in 1885, the half century and more law that I've been preparing meals had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on a regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something you same-sex relationships didnot go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, to an obsession akin to a religion. My first kitchen had nothing in three books on the way nature of luxury - it was there to make meals homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as nutritiously and economically well as possible: my current kitchen is not ''quite'' state the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the artEuropean Continent, but it's equipped to a high standard and is a pleasure to work barely talked about in. But what the UK, so the publications of all these men were hugely significant – contributing to the equipment which went beforescientific understanding of homosexuality, which paved and beginning the way to what we have now? Emma Kay is going struggle for recognition and equality, leading to give you a quick trip through the historymilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445657511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martyn Beardsley1910593508|title= Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First HandApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of Waterloothis, fought on a midsummer day on the authors take a muddy field few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in Belgium, brought an end the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to two decades of war in Europethe book. As one If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the pivotal events of the nineteenth century, it slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has inevitably been the focus of many accounts over the last two hundred yearstrimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Rutherford1786331047|title=Landscape GardensThe Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=45|genre=ArtHistory|summary=My first experience The basic facts about the deaths of a ''big'' garden was Versailles as a teenager Nicholas and whilst I was impressedAlexandra, some of which were deliberately obscured at the time for various reasons, I didn't really like ithave long since been established. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by For the flatness last few months of it all. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court their lives in Russia the former Tsar 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 into the houseTsarina, so I wandered the gardens their children and found they few remaining servants were delightfulheld in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. I felt uplifted. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me To prevent them from being rescued, in July 1918 the opportunity revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to walk death in circumstances which, once the grounds for over an hour. I news was completely won over and a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in contextEurope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445669935</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stuart MaconieWoolf_Great|title= Long Road From JarrowThe Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration|author=Jo Woolf|rating= 3.5|genre= Travel History|summary= I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about Jo Woolf has compiled a year ago brilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the mysteries of the only thing I miss wildest parts of our world, and also given us an understanding of what it is Stuart Maconie's column. His down-like to-earth approach be faced with the most terrible conditions and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect still have the determination and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing grit to admitcarry on. Let's This book could be honest, though, I picked this one up because of someone else's review, in viewed as a taster which I spotted names like Ferryhill encourages us to seek out and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know read more about some of) to 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 most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at leastthem justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicky HaywardMourby_Rooms|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookGreat Hotels|author=Adrian Mourby

|genre=CookeryHistory|summary=In 1745 Adrian Mourby has given us a Spanish friary cookflying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, Juan Altamirasfrom fourteen regions of the world, published with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of an overall picture. So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first edition of his hotel to call itself 'grand'New Art of Cookery, Drawn From was in Covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the School beginning of Economic Experience''. It contained more a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than two hundred recipes a refuge for meatthose without friends and family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a different set of challenges. We begin in the Americas, poultrymove to the United Kingdom, gamecircumnavigate Europe, salted briefly visit Russia and fresh fishTurkey then northern Africa, vegetables India and dessertsAsia. The style was informalAustralia, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimedseems, does not at those who could afford to cook on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook go for large numbers. Whilst the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination of flavours and aromasgrand. 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 World.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442279419</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susan Duxbury-NeumannHailstone_Berlin|title= What Have Berlin in the Germans Ever Done for Us?Cold War: A History of the German Population of Great Britain1959 to 1966|author=Allan Hailstone|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= ''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 adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some time to images provide an insight into the changing nature of the divide between East and West Berlin and a full answer, and this slim but useful volume does so very wellglimpse into life in the city during the Cold War. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664860</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gillian TindallMoorehead_Russian|title= The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London JourneyRussian Revolution|ratingauthor= 4.5Alan Moorehead|genrerating= History|summary=This book traces The author was writing from a slightly different stance from most other historians. Only a decade after the course end of historical journeys across the city in time and spaceSecond World War, examining how he was basing his account on the premise that the areas above Nazis' rise to power in Germany was connected with the new Crossrail routeheritage that Lenin had left behind, and that without Stalin's assurances of support Hitler would never have dared to plunge the largest building project currently under construction world into such a devastating global conflict. It was his belief that America's post-war commitments in Europe offering high speed links across Londonand the Far East, have changed over and other post-1945 developments, could also be traced back to the centuries, with events of 1917. Much of his material came from German archives which were saved from destruction and renewal being a constantly recurring process in when the Third Reich was on the city's historybrink of collapse. It is a fascinating, compellingly readable exploration through These documents that the German government would have kept private had they won the war provided full detail on the historical highways and byways attempts of their forebears to pave the metropolisway for chaos and revolution in their Asiatic neighbour.|amazonukgenre=History|summary=<amazonuk>0099587793</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan TriggAnderson_Fantasyland|title=Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS: The Final Testament of the OostfrontersFantasyland|author=Kurt Andersen|rating=3.54

|summary=In Fantasyland covers the week I write this, Trump has come under fire for not condemning fascistic behaviour in history of America from some Neo-Nazis1517 to 2017 in awesome detail. It strikes me that Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints 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 conjuring of new, but common sense obliges me America in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims 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 Nazispoliticians, and they have different feelings about the people who worked against the commonly-held nationalistic aim. France hates her collaboratorsexhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, but just north of the border things seminal episodes are different – and the picture is a lot more muddy as a resultexplored in forensic detail with razor-sharp wit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>