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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?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985880]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"History|==summary=[[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of Exploration by Jo Woolf]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]]London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of some amazingly brave peopleLondon in 1666. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the mysteries of It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the wildest parts of our world, fire and also given us an understanding of what then survived for centuries until World War II, when it is like to be faced with was again ruined by bombs during the most terrible conditions and still have Blitz. But that wasn't the determination and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as end of its story: after a taster which encourages us phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported to seek out and read more about some Fulton, Missouri. There, in the grounds of Westminster College, the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible church was rebuilt and Woolf does them justicetoday serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill. [[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf|Full Review]]}}<!-- Hailstone -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1784385166| styletitle="widthThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse[[image:Hailstone_Berlin.jpg|leftrating=5|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 Cold War: 1959 first image that comes to 1966 by Allan Hailstone]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] ''Berlin in mind when you think of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Cold War: 1959-1966Third Reich'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone s fascist regime in his visits to the city during this periodall its iniquity. The But some objects and images provide an insight into from that time may be less familiar to you. In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the changing nature period 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="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-alignTiananmen 1989: center;"|Our Shattered Hopes[[image:Moorehead_Russian.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445667320?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN5|genre=1445667320]] Graphic Novels| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead]]=== [[image:4starI 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.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 I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the end birth of the Second World WarTank Man image, he was basing his account on the premise that the NazisI didn' rise to power in Germany was connected with t know how the heritage that Lenin area had left behindlong been a venue for political protest, and that without StalinI didn's assurances of support Hitler would never have dared to plunge t know more than a spit about the world into such people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a devastating global conflict. It was his belief that Americageneral browser's post-war commitments context for the whole season of protests back 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 1989.|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 Third Reich USA. At the time she was on the brink just three-years-old but because of collapsesome childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. These documents 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 German government would have kept private had they won the war provided full detail on the attempts of their forebears to pave only child in the way for chaos household and revolution her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in their Asiatic neighbour.[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead|Full Review]] <!the mid-- Mourby -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mourby_Roomswest 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.jpg|left|link=https Clara would only know her mother for a few months://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782754]]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.}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1783784350|title===[[Rooms with a ViewThis Golden Fleece: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]==A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter [[image:4star.jpg|linkrating=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel5|Travel]], [[:Category:genre=History|History]] Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit summary=It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a 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 picturewool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. So what makes She'd grown up on a hotel sheep farm in Suffolk - 'grand'? The first hotel a free-range child on the farm'' - and learned to call itself 'grandspin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother' s friend. This was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning of a period when her blood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789017977|title=Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards 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 New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Ronnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and each faced a different set of challengesEthel Wall. We begin 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 the Americas, move to the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa1863, India and Asiabut he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. Australia, it seems, does not go for For a while the grand. [[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby|Full Review]] <!family was quite well-to- Anderson do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and five-year->|-| style="width: 10%; verticalold Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-align: top; textturned-align: center;"|[[image:Anderson_Fantasylandout and this would stay with him throughout his life.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.uk/gp/product/1785038656?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785038656]]}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1980891117|title=G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating=[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen]]4.5|genre===Art[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Fantasyland covers George Engleheart was one of the history leading portrait miniaturists of America Georgian London, with a career lasting from 1517 the 1770s to 2017 in awesome detailthe Regency era. Covering five centuries of tempestuous historyHe was also one of the most prolific, painting nearly 5, Andersen paints the conjuring 000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of America in vivid reliefKing George III). Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians, Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the exhilarating gold rush to alternative factsnames of each of his clients, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp witand subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book. [[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]]<br> <br>}} <!-- Way -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1789016304| styletitle="widthWar and Love: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin[[image:Way_Tea.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ieHistory|summary=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tea Gardens (BritainMelanie 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's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, [[:Category:History|History]] Tea Gardens really began in London but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in the late 18th century: a trip country with liberal values who were resistant to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to the country in those daysGerman occupation. Men had their coffee houses, but Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they were not places where women could or would soon be seen. Tea was introduced to England pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the 17th century way that it did, but it was not until 1784 that initial protests melted away as the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea organisers became the drink of choice for the nationmore circumspect. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies. 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1908745819|Full Review]]title=Surfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie<!-- Stewart -->|rating=5|-| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|History[[image:Stewart_Marches.jpg|left|linksummary=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:5starSometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]Mostly we take them at their word, or not, [[:Category:History|History]] The Observer quote on the front of but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the paperback edition of Stewartbook. That's latest a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhapscalling your name, but to call it travel writing is to totally under-sell rarely get itwrong. This is erudition at its finestIn this case, I was told why. Stewart has The blurb speaks of the background to do this: he had author considering ''an international upbringing and followed his father in both the Army and the Foreign Officeolder, and then (to his fatherless tethered sense of herself.''s, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP Older. Oh, and he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002Less tethered. A walk along the Scottish borders should be That's not a doddle by comparisonbad description of where I am. [[The Marches by Rory Stewart|Full Review]] <!-- Parker -->|-| Add to that my love of the natural world, of those aspects of the poetic and lyrical that are about style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Parker_50not form, and substance most of all, about connection.jpg|left|link=https://wwwOf course, this book had my name on it.amazon.co It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.uk/gp/product/1784937908?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784937908]]}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"0857058320|==title=[[50 Things You Should Know About Lord Of All the Vikings by Philip Parker]]Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating==4[[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ChildrenHistory|summary=''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's Non-Fiction|Childrenlost ancestor'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 life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in 2014 was the first thing that proved to Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood in their veins – they had been insisting it was that of figure who looms large over the Irishbook. The Vikings it was that forced our English kingHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's army to march from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasion, only to spend forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the next fortnight schlepping back centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle 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 be a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from hero whilst having fought for the coast – that has a Viking longship on its signpostwrong side. Yes, they got }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008294011|title=How to Lose a lot of places, Country: The 7 Steps from Greenland Democracy to Kiev, from Murmansk to Turkey and the Med, and their misaligned history is well worth visiting – particularly on these pagesDictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating=4. [[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker|Full Review]] <!-- Maconie -->5|-genre=History| stylesummary="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 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...'' I agreed that she was right and Society|Politics and Society]] I cancelled my wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn'Country Walkingt know what all 'this' magazine subscription about a year ago and the only thing was leading to. I miss is Stuart Maconie's columnthink now that I do know. His down-to-earth approach We are in danger of losing democracy and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Letwhilst it's be honesta flawed system I can't think of a better one, though, I picked this one up because of someone elseparticularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffeteeth. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=The Fraternity of) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''a whole matrix of events reducible to one word like AberfanEstranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 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 -->1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=5|-genre=History| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; textOriginally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-align: center;"|[[image:Kay Vintagesex relationships did not go unchallenged.jpg|left|link=https://wwwBetween 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared.amazonThey were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis.co.uk/gp/product/1445657511?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445657511]]  | style="vertical-align: top; textExploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-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]] <!-- Dean -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dean_K129.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445674742/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in History by Josh Dean]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] In February 1968 the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left the port of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula with a crew of 98 submariners. The captain and executive officers were experienced: the only factor giving cause for concern was that the crew had only recently returned to base and were expecting a longer break and were only back at sea because two sister ships had experienced mechanical problems and were unfit for combat patrols. The Division Commander complained that the decision was cruel and potentially reckless. He would be proved right - but not publicly - as K-129 went down with all hands in March 1968. It was a while before the Soviet navy realised that it had lost one of its submarines and despite an extensive search they couldn't find it. [[The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in History by Josh Dean|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --> |} {{newreview|author= Martyn Beardsley|title= Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First Hand|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle of Waterloo, fought on a midsummer day on a muddy field in Belgium, brought an end to two decades of war sex relationships in Europe. As one of the pivotal events of the nineteenth century, it has inevitably been the focus of many accounts over the last two hundred years1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</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 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>