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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Woolf -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0578761718| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver[[image:Woolf_Great.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985880?ie5|genre=UTF8&tagHistory|summary=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985880]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of Exploration by Jo Woolf]]=== [[image:3London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records.5starSadly, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Jo Woolf has compiled It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a brilliant set of fifty short insights into design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the lives fire and achievements of some amazingly brave peoplethen survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of But that wasn't the mysteries end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the wildest parts of our world, and also given us an understanding of what it is like stones from the church's walls were transported to be faced with Fulton, Missouri. There, in the most terrible conditions and still have grounds of Westminster College, the determination church was rebuilt and grit today serves as a memorial to carry onWinston Churchill. 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784385166|title=The Third Reich in 100 Objects: 50 Tales A Material History of Exploration by Jo Woolf|Full Review]] <!-- Hailstone -->Nazi Germany|-author=Roger Moorhouse| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|5[[image:Hailstone_Berlin.jpg|left|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]] History| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Berlin in What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of the Cold War: 1959 Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to 1966 by Allan Hailstone]]=== [[image:4stara concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]]But some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to you. In this short volume, [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] ''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate 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 WarThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts. [[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone|Full Review]] }}<!-- Moorehead -->{{Frontpage|-author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)| styletitle="widthTiananmen 1989: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Our Shattered Hopes|rating=4.5[[image:Moorehead_Russian.jpg|leftgenre=Graphic Novels|linksummary=https://wwwI never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know.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]]=== [[ 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:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The author was writing from , I didn't know how the area had long been a slightly different stance from most other historians. Only venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a decade after spit about the end of the Second World War, he was basing his account people involved on the premise that the Nazis' rise to power either side. This book is practically flawless in Germany was connected with the heritage that Lenin had left behind, and that without Stalingiving a general browser's assurances context for the whole season of support Hitler would never have dared to plunge the world into such a devastating global conflictprotests back in 1989. 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 |isbn=1684056993}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the events of 1917. Much of his material came from German archives which were saved from destruction when USA. At the Third Reich time she was on the brink just three-years-old but because 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 some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to pave the way for chaos sail with her parents and revolution in their Asiatic neighbourthree brothers.[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead|Full Review]] <!-- Mourby -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of school. She was the only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mourby_Rooms.jpg|left|link=https://wwwwest of the 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.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782754]]}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1783784350| styletitle="vertical-alignThis Golden Fleece: top; text-align: left;"A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=5|genre=History|summary=[[Rooms with a View: It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]=== [[image:4starjob frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] Adrian Mourby has given us January was going to be a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the worldBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, with discovering and telling the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something story of an overall picture. So what makes a hotel wool'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was in covent Garden in 1774 s history and how it ushered in had made and changed the beginning of landscape. She'd grown up on a period when sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends free-range child on the farm'' - 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 learned to the United Kingdomspin, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia knit and Turkey then northern Africa, India weave from her mother and Asiaher mother's friend. Australia, it seems, does not go for the grand This was in her blood. [[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby|Full Review]]}}<!-- Anderson -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1789017977| styletitle="widthRonnie and Hilda's Romance: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams[[image:Anderson_Fantasyland.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785038656?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785038656]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"History|summary===[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen]]=== [[image:4starRonnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[ There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate:Category:History|History]]he claimed to have been born in 1863, [[:Category:Politics but he was already many years older than Ethel and Society|Politics and Society]] Fantasyland covers he might well have shaved a few years off his age. For a while the history of America from 1517 family was quite well-to 2017 -do but disaster struck in awesome detail. Covering the 1929 Depression and five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints the conjuring of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims -year-old Ronnie had to politicians, the exhilarating gold rush adjust to alternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wita very different lifestyle. [[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]]<br> <br> <! One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned- Way -->|-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1980891117[[image:Way_Tea.jpg|left|linktitle=httpsG Engleheart Pinxit 1805://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ieA year in the life of George Engleheart|author=UTF8&tagJohn Webley|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]] 4.5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Art|summary===[[Tea Gardens 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 (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[image:4starover twenty of them being of King George III).jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}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.}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle{{Frontpage|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Historyisbn=1789016304|History]] Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th centurytitle=War and Love: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to the country A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in those days. Men had their coffee houses, but they were not places where women could or would be seen. Tea was introduced occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Melanie Martin read about what happened to England Dutch Jews in the 17th century but it occupied Amsterdam during World War II and 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 entranced by cheap gin. Onlywhat she discovered, 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 particularly 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'The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. 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 it did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.}}{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TravelFrontpage|isbn=1908745819|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]] <!-- 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]] <!-- 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 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 be many years before I revised my opinion. On a trip to Harewood House it was too hot a day to be corralled into the 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 New.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 cook, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition of his ''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From the School of Economic Experience''. It contained more than two 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 aromas. Spices are used conservatively and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras' own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New World. [[Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook by Vicky Hayward|Full Review]] <!-- MATYSZAK -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Matysak_24.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782438564/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[24 Hours in Ancient Rome by Philip Matyszak]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] I've never been that interested in Ancient Rome. Blame my teachers, or our oh-so-dry visits to Roman villas with their earnest interpretation panels, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all the interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with the impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend them. ''Mea culpa'', you might say. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours in Ancient Rome'', and its claim to introduce readers to the real Ancient Rome by examining the lives of ordinary people, I decided it was high time to update my education. And the lovely artwork on the front cover made this book all the more appealing. [[24 Hours in Ancient Rome by Philip Matyszak|Full Review]] <!-- Connolly -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Connolly_Heroines.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445662647/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Heroines of the Medieval World by Sharon Bennett Connolly]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] Many women in medieval times left their mark on history, but as a rule they have been neglected by biographers and historians as there is too little surviving information for them to have even brief biographies to themselves. Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution to the problem by writing a general account on a broadly thematic basis. [[Heroines of the Medieval World by Sharon Bennett Connolly|Full Review]] <!-- Amin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Amin_House.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445647648/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown by Nathen Amin]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The family name of Beaufort played a major part in British history during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It therefore seems remarkable that little has been written about them until this present volume. [[The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown by Nathen Amin|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --> |} {{newreviewtitle=Surfacing|author=Josh Dean|title=The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in HistoryKathleen 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|isbn=0857058320|title=Lord Of All the Dead|author= Martyn BeardsleyJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating=4|genre=History|summary=''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 Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008294011|title= Waterloo Voices 1815How to Lose a Country: The Battle at First Hand7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle of Waterloo, fought on A little while ago a midsummer day on 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...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a muddy field in Belgium, brought an end good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to two decades of war . I think now that I do know. We are in Europe. As one danger of the pivotal events losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of the nineteenth centurya better one, it has inevitably been the focus of many accounts over particularly as the last two hundred years'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author= Susan Duxbury-NeumannBrian Anderson|rating=5|genre=History|titlesummary= What Have Originally passed in 1885, the Germans Ever Done law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for Us?82 years. But during this time, 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: A History Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring 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 German Population scientific understanding of Great Britainhomosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1910593508|title=Apollo|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 that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and this slim but useful volume does so very wellstill 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 week I write thislives 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, 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, it seems, so theydoes 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. France hates her collaborators, but just north 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 border things are different – way for chaos and the picture is a lot more muddy as a resultrevolution in their Asiatic neighbour.|amazonukgenre=History|summary=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>