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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Woolf -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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]]FrontpageJo 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]] <!-- Hailstone -->|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|0578761718[[image:Hailstone_Berlin.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=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]] <!-- Moorehead -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title===[[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]] <!-- Mourby -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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]] <!-- Anderson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Anderson_Fantasyland.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785038656?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785038656]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] 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. [[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]]<br> <br> <!-- Way -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Way_Tea.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:History|History]] 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 country in those days. Men had their coffee houses, but they were not places where women could or would be seen. Tea was introduced to England in the 17th century but it was not until 1784 that the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea became the drink of choice for the nation. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardens. [[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way|Full Review]] <!-- Stewart -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stewart_Marches.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099581892?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099581892]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Marches by Rory Stewart]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] 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 this: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both the Army and the Foreign Office, and then (to his father's, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Oh, and he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison. [[The Marches by Rory Stewart|Full Review]] <!-- Parker -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Parker_50.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784937908?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784937908]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:History|History]] 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. [[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker|Full Review]] |} {{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'', and its claim to introduce readers to the real Ancient Rome by examining the lives grounds of ordinary peopleWestminster College, I decided it the church was high time rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to update my education. And the lovely artwork on the front cover made this book all the more appealingWinston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438564</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon Bennett Connolly1784385166|title= Heroines The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of the Medieval WorldNazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating= 5|genre= History|summary= Many women in medieval times left their mark on history, What is 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 as a rule they have been neglected by biographers are emblematic of the Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and historians as there is too little surviving information for them images from that time may be less familiar to have even brief biographies you. In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to themselvesillustrate the period of the Third Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts. Ms Connolly  }}{{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 adopted an enterprising solution to other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the problem by writing area had long been a venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a general account spit about the people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a broadly thematic basisgeneral browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445662647</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nathen Amin0648684806|title=The House of BeaufortClara Colby: The Bastard Line that Captured the CrownInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating= 4|genre= HistoryBiography|summary= The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family name emigrated to the USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of Beaufort played some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a major part good education, both in and out of school. She was the only child in British history during the fourteenth household and fifteenth centuriesher childhood was glorious. It therefore seems remarkable that little has been written about them until By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the appearance mid-west of this bookthe United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Josh Dean1783784350|title=The Taking of K-129This Golden Fleece: The Most Daring Covert Operation in A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter

|summary=In February 1968 the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left the port of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula with a crew of 98 submarinersIt was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The captain job frustrated her and executive officers were experienced: the only factor giving cause even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a time for concern was making changes and she decided that she would travel the crew had only recently returned to base length and breadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and were expecting a longer break telling the story of wool's history and were only back at sea because two sister ships how it had experienced mechanical problems made and were unfit for combat controls. The Division Commander complained that changed the decision was cruel and potentially recklesslandscape. He would be proved right She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - but not publicly '' a free- as Krange child on the farm'' -129 went down with all hands in March 1968and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. It This was a while before the sSoviet navy realised that it had lost one of its submarines and despite an extensive search they couldn't find itin her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445674742</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789017977|title=Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Emma KayWendy Williams|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Ronnie Williams was the son of 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 while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. 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 army at eighteen in 1942.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1980891117|title=Vintage KitchenaliaG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating=34.5|genre=Art|summary=George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. He was also one of the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III).Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789016304|title=War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=5

|summary=Over the half century Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and more that Iwas entranced by what she discovered, particularly in 've been preparing meals on a regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something you did, to an obsession akin to a religion. My first kitchen had nothing in the way The Diary of luxury - it was there to make meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not Ann Frank''quitebut then realised that her own family'' state of s stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the artwar years, but it's equipped only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a high standard and is a pleasure country with liberal values who were resistant to work inGerman occupation. But Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what of all happened to escalate in the equipment which went beforeway that it did, which paved but initial protests melted away as the way to what we have now? organisers became more circumspect. Emma Kay is going to give you It's an atrocity on a quick trip through the historyvast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445657511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martyn Beardsley1908745819|title= Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First HandSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle of WaterlooSometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, fought 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 midsummer day on rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a muddy field in Belgiumbook calling your name, brought rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering ''an end to two decades older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a 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. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it has inevitably been the focus of many accounts over the last two hundred yearsfall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>

{{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 death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's 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 I was impressed, I didnfighting for Francisco Franco't really like s forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of this book is whether itis 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: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating=4. 5|genre=History|summary=A little while ago a friend asked me if I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the flatness of it allquestion ''Discuss the factors which led to... '' As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was official: I a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was off big gardensleading to. It would be many years before I revised my opinionthink now that I do know. On We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a trip to Harewood House it was too hot flawed system I can't think of a day to be corralled into better one, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=The Fraternity of the houseEstranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Originally passed in 1885, so I wandered the gardens law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and found they 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were delightfulwritten by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. I felt upliftedExploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. Then }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1910593508|title=Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=5|genre=History|summary=This incredible graphic novel is a cricket match at Stowe gave me love letter to the opportunity to walk Moon landings and the grounds passion for over an hourthe subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. I was completely won over This is a story 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 devotee comic book adaptation of Lancelot 'Capability' Browna film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short. Sarah Rutherford}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786331047|title=The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's ''Landscape Gardens'' Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=5|genre=History|summary=The basic facts about the deaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, some of which were deliberately obscured at the time for various reasons, have long since been established. For the last few months of their lives in Russia the former Tsar and Tsarina, their children and few remaining servants were held in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. To prevent them from being rescued, in July 1918 the revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to death in circumstances which, once the news 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>