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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&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985880]] History| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the Great Horizon: 50 Tales Fire of Exploration London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Jo Woolf]]=== [[image:3Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz.5star.jpg|link=CategoryBut that wasn't the end of its story:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]]after a phenomenal fundraising effort, [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave peoplestones from the church's walls were transported to Fulton, Missouri. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of There, in the mysteries grounds of Westminster College, the wildest parts of our world, church was rebuilt 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 today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784385166|title=The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History 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 -->Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating=5|-genre=History| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[What is the first image:Hailstone_Berlin.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901that comes to mind when you think of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&The gate to a concentration camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Berlin in ? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Cold War: 1959 Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to 1966 by Allan Hailstone]]=== [[image:4staryou.jpg|link=Category:{{{ratingIn this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the period of the Third Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts. }}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History{{Frontpage|History]]author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)''Berlin in the Cold War|title=Tiananmen 1989: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the city during this periodOur Shattered Hopes|rating=4. The images provide an insight into 5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I never really followed the changing nature events of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the city during second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the Cold War. [[Berlin in weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone|Full Review]] <!-- Moorehead -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[birth of the Tank Man image:Moorehead_Russian.jpg|left|link=https://www, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445667320?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.|isbn=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445667320]]1684056993}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0648684806| styletitle="vertical-alignClara Colby: top; text-align: left;"The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating=4|genre=[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead]]===Biography[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The author path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was writing from a slightly different stance from most other historiansprobably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. Only a decade after At the end time she was just three-years-old but because of the Second World Warsome childhood ailment, he was basing his account on the premise that the Nazis' rise she wasn't allowed to power in Germany was connected sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with the heritage her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that Lenin had left behindshe received a good education, both in and that without Stalin's assurances out of support Hitler would never have dared to plunge school. She was the world into such a devastating global conflict. It was his belief that America's post-war commitments only child in Europe and the Far East, household and other post-1945 developmentsher childhood was glorious. By contrast, could also be traced back to her family had become pioneer farmers in the events of 1917. Much mid-west of his material came from German archives which were saved from destruction when the Third Reich United States and life was hard, as Clara was on to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the brink of collapsefamily. These documents that the German government Clara would have kept private only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had they won the war provided full detail on the attempts of their forebears to pave the way for chaos ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and revolution died in their Asiatic neighbourchildbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead|Full Review]]}}<!-- Mourby -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1783784350| styletitle="widthThis Golden Fleece: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter[[image:Mourby_Rooms.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&campHistory|summary=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782754]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Rooms with It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to 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 View: The Secret Life time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]=== [[image:4starthe British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] Adrian Mourby has given us She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a flying visit free-range child on the farm'' - and learned to each of fifty grand hotelsspin, knit and weave from fourteen regions of the world, with the hotels her mother and her mother's friend. This was in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of an overall pictureher blood. So what makes a hotel }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789017977|title=Ronnie and Hilda'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning of s Romance: Towards a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends 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 family conveniently nearbyEthel Wall. The hotels we visit all began life 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 different circumstances 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and each faced he might well have shaved a different set of challengesfew years off his age. We begin in For a while the Americas, move family was quite well-to -do but disaster struck in the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia 1929 Depression and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australia, it seems, does not go for the grandfive-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. [[Rooms One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and this would stay with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby|Full Review]]him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.}}<!-- Anderson -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1980891117| styletitle="widthG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley[[image:Anderson_Fantasyland.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785038656?ie5|genre=UTF8&tagArt|summary=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785038656]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen]]=== [[image:4starGeorge Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. He was also one of the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III).jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Fantasyland covers Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the history names of America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detail. Covering five centuries each of tempestuous historyhis clients, Andersen paints the conjuring of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to politicians, the exhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp witas his fee book. [[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]]<br> <br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Way -->|isbn=1789016304|-title=War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Melanie Martin[[image:Way_Tea.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"History|summary===[[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:4starstories were equally fascinating.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]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|Full Review]] <!-- Stewart -->}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1908745819|-title=Surfacing| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Kathleen Jamie[[image:Stewart_Marches.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099581892?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099581892]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"History|summary===[[The Marches by Rory Stewart]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] The Observer quote Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on the front of the paperback edition of Stewart's latest book observes it''This is travel writing . Mostly we take them at its finest.'' Perhapstheir word, or not, but to call rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it travel writing is to totally under-sell it. This is erudition at its finestturns out that we didn't like the book. That's a rare experience. Stewart has the background People who are sensitive to do hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the Army and the Foreign Office, and then (to his fatherauthor considering ''s, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Oholder, and he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002less tethered sense of herself. A walk along the Scottish borders should be '' Older. Less tethered. 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 It was written for me.coIt 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|genre=History[[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 Lord Of All the Dead'' is a lot to own up journey touncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. A huge DNA study in 2014 was Cercas is searching for the first thing that proved to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood meaning behind his great uncle's death in their veins – they had been insisting it was that of the IrishSpanish Civil War. The Vikings it was that forced our English kingManuel Mena, Cercas's army to march from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasion, only to spend great uncle, is the next fortnight schlepping back to Hastings to try and fend off another – and figure who looms large over the Normans had the same Norse origin as the first lot, hence the namebook. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from the coast – that has a Viking longship He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on its signpostwhy his uncle fought for this dictator. Yes, they got to a lot The question at the centre of places, from Greenland this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to Kiev, from Murmansk to Turkey and be a hero whilst having fought for the Med, and their misaligned history is well worth visiting – particularly on these pageswrong side. [[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker|Full Review]] <!-- Maconie -->}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=0008294011| styletitle="widthHow to Lose a Country: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran[[image:MACONIE_lONG.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785030531/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] History| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie]]=== [[image:5starA 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...jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Politics '' I agreed that she was right and Society|Politics and Society]] I cancelled my wasn''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about t certain whether it was a year ago and the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconiegood or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this's columnwas leading to. His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Letwhilst it's be honest, though, a flawed system I picked this can't think of a better 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 particularly as the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being 'benevolent dictator'a whole matrix of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreaveis as rare as hen'' then somehow it does become part of my history toos teeth. Tangentially, at least. [[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie|Full Review]] <!-- Kay -->}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=1788037812| styletitle="widthThe Fraternity of the Estranged: 10%; verticalThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-align: top; text-align: center;"1908|author=Brian Anderson[[image:Kay Vintage.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445657511?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445657511]] History| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay]]=== [[image:3Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years.5starBut during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] Over Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the half century margins of society and more that I've been preparing meals studying homosexuality was common on a regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something you didthe European Continent, to an obsession akin to a religion. My first kitchen had nothing but barely talked about in the way UK, so the publications of luxury - it was there these men were hugely significant – contributing to make meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not quite state the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the artstruggle for recognition and equality, but it's equipped leading to a high standard and is a pleasure to work the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in1967. 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}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]]isbn=1910593508|title=Apollo<!-- Rutherford -->|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|-rating=5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|History[[image:Rutherford_Landscape.jpg|left|linksummary=https://www.amazonThis incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins.coThis is a story we know well and because of this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks.uk/gp/product/1445669935?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445669935]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"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 still felt too short.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786331047|title=The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=[[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford]]=5|genre==History[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]] My first experience The basic facts about the deaths of a ''big'' garden was Versailles as a teenager Nicholas and whilst I was impressedAlexandra, I didn't really like itsome of which were deliberately obscured at the time for various reasons, have long since been established. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by For the flatness last few months of it all. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court their lives in Russia the former Tsar and Tsarina, their children and it was official: I was off big gardensfew remaining servants were held in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. It would be many years before I revised my opinion. On a trip To prevent them from being rescued, in July 1918 the revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to Harewood House it was too hot a day to be corralled into the housedeath in circumstances which, so I wandered once 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]] <!-- Beardsley -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Beardsley_Waterloo.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445660164/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First Hand by Martyn Beardsley]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The battle of Waterloo, fought on a midsummer day on a muddy field in Belgium, brought an end to two decades of war 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 years. [[Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First Hand by Martyn Beardsley|Full Review]] <!-- Duxbury-Neumann -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Neumann_What.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445664860/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great Britain by Susan Duxbury-Neumann]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some time to provide a full answer, and this slim but useful volume does so very well. [[What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great Britain by Susan Duxbury-Neumann|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --> |} {{newreview|author= Gillian Tindall|title= The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=This book traces the course of historical journeys across the city in time and space, examining how the areas above the new Crossrail route, the largest building project currently under construction news was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europe offering high speed links across London, have changed over the centuries, with destruction and renewal being a constantly recurring process in the city's history. It is a fascinating, compellingly readable exploration through the historical highways and byways of the metropolis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587793</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan TriggWoolf_Great|title=Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SSThe Great Horizon: The Final Testament 50 Tales of the OostfrontersExploration|author=Jo Woolf

|summary=In Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the mysteries of the week I write thiswildest parts of our world, Trump and also given us an understanding of what it is like to be faced with the most terrible conditions and still have the determination and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as a taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some of the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justice.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Mourby_Rooms|title=Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels|author=Adrian Mourby|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Adrian Mourby has come under fire for not condemning fascistic behaviour given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with the hotels in America from some Neo-Naziseach section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of an overall picture. It strikes me that the So what makes a hotel 'grand'Neo-? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' is was in Covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a pointless dignification – yesdifferent set of challenges. We begin in the Americas, they cannot be deemed move to follow Hitler precisely as he's long dead the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and burntAsia. Australia, so theyit seems, does not go for the grand.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Hailstone_Berlin|title=Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966|author=Allan Hailstone|rating=4|genre=History|summary=''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966''re kind of new, but common sense obliges me contains almost 200 photographs taken by author/photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to just call them Nazisthe city during this period. Their excuse is they feel America has been invaded by The images provide an insight into the changing nature of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in the enemy – but what if you were indeed under occupation? Could you see yourself working for city during the forces that had indeed invaded you? Cold War.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Moorehead_Russian|title=The Russian Revolution|author=Alan Moorehead|rating=The author begins by pointing out was writing from a slightly different stance from most other historians. Only a decade after the end of the Second World War, he was basing his account on the premise that several countries were invaded by the Nazis' rise to power in Germany was connected with the heritage that Lenin had left behind, and they that without Stalin's assurances of support Hitler would never have different feelings about dared to plunge the people who worked against world into such a devastating global conflict. It was his belief that America's post-war commitments in Europe and the commonlyFar East, and other post-held nationalistic aim1945 developments, could also be traced back to the events of 1917. Much of his material came from German archives which were saved from destruction when the Third Reich was on the brink of collapse. France hates her collaborators, but just north These documents that the German government would have kept private had they won the war provided full detail on the attempts of their forebears to pave the border things are different – way for chaos and the picture is a lot more muddy as a resultrevolution in their Asiatic neighbour.|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>History|summary=}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Anderson_Fantasyland|title=Fantasyland|author=Kurt Andersen|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Fantasyland covers the history of America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detail. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints the conjuring of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians, the exhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor-sharp wit.