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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]]Frontpage 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]] <!-- 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;"|===[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|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&creativetitle=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:Inspiring 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]] <!-- Maconie -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:MACONIE_lONG.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785030531/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconie'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. Let'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 in. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know 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 does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at least. [[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie|Full Review]] <!-- Kay -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kay Vintage.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445657511?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445657511]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] Over the half century and more that I'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 of luxury - it was there to make meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not quite state of the art, but it's equipped to a high standard and is a pleasure to work in. But what of all the equipment which went before, which paved the way to what we have now? Emma Kay is going to give you a quick trip through the history. [[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --> |} {{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= 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|authorisbn= Martyn Beardsley1789017977|title= Waterloo Voices 1815Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: The Battle at First HandTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle Ronnie Williams was the son of WaterlooThomas 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, fought on but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a midsummer day on few years off his age. For a muddy field while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in Belgium, brought an end 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 two decades of war in Europebe well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. As one of He joined the pivotal events of the nineteenth century, it has inevitably been the focus of many accounts over the last two hundred yearsarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Rutherford1980891117|title=Landscape GardensG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating=4.5

|summary=My first experience George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a ''big'' garden career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. He was Versailles 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 a teenager 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|genre=History|summary=Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and whilst I was impressedentranced by what she discovered, I didnparticularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family't really like its stories were equally fascinating. I felt stifled A hundred and strangely underwhelmed by seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the flatness of it allwar years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. As luck 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 have soon be pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardensdid, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It would be many years before I revised my opinion's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies. On }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1908745819|title=Surfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Sometimes when people suggest that you read a trip to Harewood House 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 was too hot turns out that we didn't like the book. That's a day rare experience. People who are sensitive to be corralled into the househearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, so I wandered was told why. The blurb speaks of the gardens and found they were delightfulauthor considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself. '' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of where I felt upliftedam. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me Add to that my love of the opportunity to walk natural world, of those aspects of the grounds for over an hourpoetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. I It was completely won over and a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brownwritten for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity I am pleased to put him in contexthave it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445669935</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicky Hayward0857058320|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|genre=CookeryHistory|summary=In 1745 ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a 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 friary cookCivil War. Manuel Mena, Juan AltamirasCercas' great uncle, published 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 first edition 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: 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 thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to...'' his I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this'New Art was leading to. I think now that I do know. We are in danger of Cookerylosing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, Drawn From particularly as the School of Economic Experience'benevolent dictator'is as rare as hen's teeth. It contained more than two hundred recipes }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for meatHomosexual Rights in England, poultry1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Originally passed in 1885, gamethe law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, salted restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and fresh fish1908, vegetables three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and dessertsJohn Addington Symonds, as 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 lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the mysteries of the week I write thiswildest parts of our world, Trump 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Mourby_Rooms|title=Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels|author=Adrian Mourby|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Adrian Mourby has come under fire for not condemning fascistic behaviour given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with the hotels in America from some Neo-Naziseach section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of an overall picture. It strikes me that the So what makes a hotel 'grand'Neo-? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' is 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 pointless dignification – yesdifferent set of challenges. We begin in the Americas, they cannot be deemed move to follow Hitler precisely as he's long dead the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and burntAsia. Australia, so theyit seems, does not go for the grand.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Hailstone_Berlin|title=Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966|author=Allan Hailstone|rating=4|genre=History|summary=''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966''re kind of new, but common sense obliges me contains almost 200 photographs taken by author/photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to just call them Nazisthe city during this period. Their excuse is they feel America has been invaded by The images provide an insight into the changing nature of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in the enemy – but what if you were indeed under occupation? Could you see yourself working for city during the forces that had indeed invaded you? Cold War.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Moorehead_Russian|title=The Russian Revolution|author=Alan Moorehead|rating=The author begins by pointing out 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 several countries were invaded by the Nazis' rise to power in Germany was connected with the heritage that Lenin had left behind, and they that without Stalin's assurances of support Hitler would never have different feelings about dared to plunge the people who worked against world into such a devastating global conflict. It was his belief that America's post-war commitments in Europe and the commonlyFar East, and other post-held nationalistic aim1945 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. France hates her collaborators, but just north 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 border things are different – way for chaos and the picture is a lot more muddy as a resultrevolution in their Asiatic neighbour.|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>History|summary=}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Anderson_Fantasyland|title=Fantasyland|author=Kurt Andersen|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.