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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;"|{{Frontpage[[image:Woolf_Great.jpg|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985880?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985880]] 0578761718| styletitle="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:Inspiring 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]] <!-- Hailstone -->Special Relationship|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Nancy Carver[[image:Hailstone_Berlin.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon4.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]] 5| stylegenre="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|linksummary=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 church 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 St Mary Aldermanbuy 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 existed in Europe and the Far East, and other post-1945 developments, could also be traced back to the events City of 1917. Much of his material came London from German archives which were saved from destruction at least 1181, when the Third Reich it 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 first mentioned 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:4starrecords.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]Sadly, [[: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' original church was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered destroyed in the beginning Great Fire of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearbyLondon in 1666. The hotels we visit all began life It was rebuilt in different circumstances and each faced Portland stone from a different set of challenges. We begin in the Americas, move to design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia fire and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australiasurvived for centuries until World War II, when it seems, does not go for was again ruined by bombs during the grandBlitz. [[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life But that wasn't the end of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby|Full Review]] <!-- Anderson -->|-| style="widthits story: 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 historyafter a phenomenal fundraising effort, Andersen paints the conjuring of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything stones 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 (Britainchurch's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]walls were transported to Fulton, [[: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 daysMissouri. Men had their coffee housesThere, 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 grounds of choice for Westminster College, the nation. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer church was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see rebuilt and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such today serves as Ranelagh Gardensa memorial to Winston Churchill. [[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way|Full Review]]}}<!-- Stewart -->{{Frontpage|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1784385166[[image:Stewart_Marches.jpg|left|linktitle=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]]=== [[imageThird Reich in 100 Objects:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|A Material 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 -->Nazi Germany|-author=Roger Moorhouse| stylerating="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]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|History===[[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=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 What is the first thing image that proved comes to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood in their veins – they had been insisting it was that mind when you think of the Irish. Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? 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 gate 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 concentration camp? None 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 are comfortable images but when he talks about it being ''a whole matrix they are emblematic 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 itThird Reich's equipped to a high standard and is a pleasure to work fascist regime inall its iniquity. 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]] <!-- Rutherford -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rutherford_Landscape.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445669935?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445669935]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]] My first experience of a ''big'' garden was Versailles as a teenager some objects and whilst I was impressed, I didn't really like it. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by the flatness of it all. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardens. It would images from that time may be many years before I revised my opinion. On a trip less familiar to Harewood House it was too hot a day to be corralled into the house, so I wandered the gardens and found they were delightful. I felt uplifted. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me the opportunity to walk the grounds for over an hour. I was completely won over and a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him in context. [[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford|Full Review]] <!-- Hayward -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hayward Newyou.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1442279419?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1442279419]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook by Vicky Hayward]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] In 1745 a Spanish friary cookthis short volume, Juan Altamiras, published Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the first edition period of his ''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From the School of Economic Experience''. It contained more than two Third Reich through one hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. The style was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimed, not at those who could afford to cook on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbers. Whilst the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination of flavours and aromasits material artefacts. 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. [[Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook by Vicky Hayward|Full Review]]   <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --> |}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Philip MatyszakLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=24 Hours in Ancient RomeTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary= IRonnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There've never been that interested in Ancient Rome. Blame my teachers, or our oh-so-dry visits s some doubt as to Roman villas with their earnest interpretation panels, whether or perhaps I just daydreamed through all the interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with the impression that all Romans not they were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with little ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to recommend them. ''Mea culpa''have been born in 1863, you but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might saywell have shaved a few years off his age. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours For a while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in Ancient Rome'', the 1929 Depression and its claim five-year-old Ronnie had to introduce readers adjust to the real Ancient Rome by examining the lives of ordinary people, I decided it a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was high time his need to update my educationbe well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. And He joined the lovely artwork on the front cover made this book all the more appealingarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438564</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon Bennett Connolly1980891117|title= Heroines G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of the Medieval WorldGeorge Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryArt|summary= Many women in medieval times left their mark on historyGeorge Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, but as with a rule they have been neglected by biographers 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 historians as there subsequently transcribed them into what is too little surviving information for them referred to have even brief biographies to themselvesas his fee book. Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution to the problem by writing a general account on a broadly thematic basis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662647</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nathen Amin1789016304|title=The House War and Love: A family's testament of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crownanguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= 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 Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family name of Beaufort played a major part in British history 's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the fourteenth war years, but only five thousand survived and fifteenth centuriesMartin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. It therefore seems remarkable 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 happened to escalate in the way that little has been written about them until it did, but initial protests melted away as the appearance organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of this booktens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Josh Dean1908745819|title=The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in HistorySurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie

|summary=In February 1968 the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left the port of Petropavlovsk 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 Kamchatka peninsula with book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a crew of 98 submarinersbook calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The captain and executive officers were experienced: blurb speaks of the only factor giving cause for concern was that the crew had only recently returned to base and were expecting author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a longer break and were only back at sea because two sister ships had experienced mechanical problems and were unfit for combat controlsbad description of where I am. The Division Commander complained Add to that my love of the natural world, of those aspects of the decision was cruel poetic and potentially reckless. He would be proved right - but lyrical that are about style not publicly - as K-129 went down with form, and substance most of all hands in March 1968, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. It was a while before the sSoviet navy realised that it had lost one of written for me. It would have found its submarines and despite an extensive search they couldn't find way to me eventually. I am pleased to have itfall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445674742</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martyn Beardsley0857058320|title= Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First HandLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle of Waterloo, fought on a midsummer day on ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a muddy field in Belgium, brought an end journey to two decades of war uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in Europethe Spanish Civil War. As one of Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is the pivotal events of figure who looms large over the nineteenth century, it has inevitably been 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 focus centre of many accounts over this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the last two hundred yearswrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susan Duxbury-Neumann0008294011|title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?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 History level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to...'' 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' was leading to. I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the German Population 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=The Fraternity of Great Britainthe Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time to provide a full answer, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and this slim studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but useful volume does barely talked about in the UK, so very wellthe 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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664860</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gillian Tindall1910593508|title= The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London JourneyApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=This book traces the course of historical journeys across incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the city in time Moon landings and space, examining how the areas above passion for the new Crossrail routesubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, the largest building project currently under construction in Europe offering high speed links across LondonChris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of this, have changed over the centuries, with destruction and renewal being authors take a constantly recurring process few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the cityblanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you's historyve ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. It This is a fascinating, compellingly readable exploration through the historical highways graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and byways of the metropolisstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587793</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Trigg1786331047|title=Voices of The Race to Save the Flemish Waffen-SSRomanovs: The Final Testament Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's 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 Oostfronterstime 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 confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europe.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Woolf_Great|title=The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration|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.