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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Rex1785633457|title=William Charging Around: Exploring the Conqueror: The Bastard Edges of NormandyEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=4.5|genre=History Travel|summary= The basic facts Clive Wilkinson has a history of William I's life are inevitably as clouded as those surrounding the Norman conquest, the events and politics which led up to it, and the aftermathtravelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As Peter Rex makes clear in he neared his introduction, any surviving sources are inevitably very incomplete. Moreover, 'eightieth birthday the writing idea of exploring the history edges of the eleventh century requires the historian to attempt to provide motives England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and explanations for events that are only sketchily described at besthis wife, Joan, shouldn'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660172</amazonuk>t it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine HickleyB09BLBP3P8|title=The Munich Art HoardNeville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler's Dealer and His Secret Legacy, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager

|summary=Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the most newsworthy events in modern art history happened seemingly by chance. When tax police raided the house early days of an aged man in Munich it was because they assumed he had been moving too much money about and paying no tax – this six months after he was seen on World War II from 1939-40, known as the train between Bavaria and Switzerland with 'nearly too much' cashPhoney War''. The investigators had no caseWe remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, but he had something much more complex and rich – a massive legacy of 20th Century German and European artChurchill coming in to save the day. But that collection had to have an origin – one of dubious Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and at times nefarious beginnings, and one that could have quite a rich and convoluted background. Hickleyyet, as Frederic Seager argues in these pagesthis book, gives us much it was of vital significance in how the way of context as well as ironing war played out those convolutions, so this story is both of interest to Nazi historians and art scholars – as well as to those larger numbers who just like a good story told well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292574</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Scott3756228711|title=Ancient WorldsCDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating=54

|summary= History can be perceived as a dusty academic backwater. Often viewed as an irrelevance in our modern world, as we race through ''The history of the daily events development of our livesIT could fill books of several hundred pages. It '' Author Hans Bodmer is a subject quite right about that . He has suffered greatly in our education system, where there has always been a tendency chosen to teach tell us about the subject in isolationshort, but explosive, only focussing on history of the events that have shaped our own national identityControl Data Company, CDC, for whom he worked. Michael ScottIt's new book offers a refreshing change. ''Ancient Worlds'' is thought provoking history for the general reader. Well researched and with a persuasive argumentfascinating tale, he explores the interactions across three differing cultures. Interactions that provide told in a new perspective on our modern worldmixture of technological summary and wry anecdote. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958814</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alexandra HarrisJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title= Weatherland: Writers Fritz and artists under English skiesKurt|rating= 4.5|genre= ReferenceConfident Readers|summary=The story We start with the pair of English culture over brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a thousand years can be told vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the story Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of changing ideas about having a national vote to keep the weatherNazis out, invite them in with open arms. A sweeping panorama, ''WeatherlandKristallnacht'' explores how writers and artistshappened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, looking up at as did all the same skies and walking round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the brisk air, have felt very different things. A journey through centuries younger Kurt at home with his mother and culturessisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, Harris walks the reader through misty moor while Fritz and foggy fenhis father are, lays with them on bright sunlit beaches, treks with them unknown initially to stormy summitseach other, and introduces them packed off on the same train to a fascinating cast of writers, artists Buchenwald and cultural figures along the waystone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0500292655</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jem Duducu|title= Forgotten History: Unbelievable Moments from the Past|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=The numerous highways, byways and tangents of the chronicle of our life on earth provide the raw rata for any number of alternative histories, and in this book Jem Duducu has trawled magnificently through the ages from several centuries BC up to the present day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656345</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Martin WallJohn Henry Phillips|title= The Anglo-Saxons in 100 Facts|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= As one of the generation who was introduced to English history through the 'Kings and Queens' principle, and thoroughly enjoyed it, I have long since regarded the period between the Roman invasion and the Norman conquest as a bit of a blur. For me it is a rather murky area, punctuated by the likes of Hengist and Horsa, Alfred the Great and Ethelred the Unready, not to mention the Athelstans, Edgars, Egberts and others who are so often little more than names. In order words, what exactly did they do? This admirable title brings it all into focus.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656388</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Robert Kershaw|title= 24 Hours at the Somme|rating= 5|genre= Reference|summary=''They came past one by one...walking lumps of clay, with torn clothing, hollow cheeks and sunken eyes...There was a dreadful weariness, but a wildness burning in their fevered eyes, showing what this appalling hand to hand fighting had cost them. Utterly unforgivable for me...'' So goes the description of the men, the ''ghosts,'' at the end of the first day of the Somme. July 1 2016 will mark 100 years since this most bloody of battles took place. It was supposed to be the optimistic 'Big Push' that would end the Great War, but by sunset of the first day the British casualties numbered 57,470. The battle would rage until November that year, with the total number of casualties on all sides exceeding one million.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753555476</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Christopher McGrath|title=Mr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 HorsesSearch

|genre=SportHistory|summary=All thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of just three stallions which came the latter, as our author promises to England about three hundred years ago; The Byerley Turklocate the topic of the titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, The Darley Arabian and The Godolphin Arabianit's underwater, when he cannot dive. The last century or so has seen Latching on to a decline in particular D-Day veteran through helping the lines from the first and last of these stallionsheroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the extent landing craft that some 95% of all thoroughbreds worldwide - not just in England - are descended from The Darley Arabiandelivered him to Normandy, which and that he was originally bought in Aleppo lucky to survive when it sank from Bedouin tribesmen and shipped beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to Yorkshire in 1704, by Thomas Darley, who diedeveryone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in difficult financial circumstances before he could follow his horse home.their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848549830</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wade GrahamB09F4CTKJR|title=Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the WorldFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|genre= HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary=Between 1950 It's the later stages of World War I and 2014 the world's urban population increased from 746 million to 3.9 billionUnited States has just entered the conflict. The urbanising trend Petrol Petronus is set to continue with a young American who has signed up and joined the United Nations predicting that by 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the middle of first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the century 66% of us will first to be city dwellers, a massive six billion people. How have city planners attached to the RAF and architects tried the first to cope with be sent into the recent surge? How can they avoid repeating mistakes from skies to fight the past? Both of those questions are considered Germans in Dream Cities – Seven Urban Ideas That Shape The Worldactive combat. But before that can happen, Wade Graham's excellent field guide Petrol has to master flying the modern worldnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445659735</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathleen Chater0578761718|title= The Reformation in 100 Facts|rating= 4.5|genre= Inspiring History|summary=The Reformation was one of the major events, if not themes of European history, that has decisively shaped the modern world, and has inevitably provided material for many a detailed account in print. This handy little volume, one of a new series from Amberley, reduces a very complex subject to a series of short chapters which make an ideal introduction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445651343</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSpecial Relationship|author= John Casson and William D Rubinstein|title= Sir Henry Neville Was Shakespeare: The EvidenceNancy Carver|rating= 4.5

|summary= Debunking The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the Bard City of Avon on London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the grounds that he did not write original church was destroyed in the plays attributed to him is nothing newGreat Fire of London in 1666. This scholarly workIt was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, based on several yearswhen it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn' research and new evidencet the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, is by no means the first stones from the church's walls were transported to suggest otherwiseFulton, Missouri. There, in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and provides today serves as a compelling argument as memorial to who really was the authorWinston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654660</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clinton Romesha1784385166|title=Red PlatoonThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse

|summary= When What is the soldiers first image that comes to mind when you think of Red Platoon arrived at Combat Outpost Keating, in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan, the vulnerabilities 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 outpost were frighteningly obviousThird Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. It was surrounded on all sides by steep But some objects and wooded hills, giving the Taliban excellent vantage points to observe the outpost and fire into it; the helicopter landing zone, essential for bringing in supplies and evacuating the wounded, was situated outside the base across a river; and the perimeter was too large images from that time may be less familiar to be sufficiently defendedyou. These weaknesses were also obvious to the Taliban, and on the 3rd October 2009, just after dawnIn this short volume, they launched a full-out assault Roger Moorhouse has attempted to capture illustrate the base. Red Platoon is a first-hand account period of the frantic battle that followed, written by Staff Sergeant Clinton Romesha who received the Medal Third Reich through one hundred of Honor for his actionsits material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848094647</amazonuk>  

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Teresa ColeLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= Henry VTiananmen 1989: The Life of the Warrior King & the Battle of AgincourtOur Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyGraphic Novels|summary= Henry V is remembered as one I never really followed the events of England's greatest warrior kings, not least as a result of his immortalisation Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the play by Shakespeare (as well as by two film versions second half of the drama)their teens has other priorities, you know. Ironically he was one I certainly didn't know of several great-grandchildren the weeks of Edward III, protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and as he was considered relatively unimportant at the time birth of his birththe Tank Man image, exactly when he arrived in I didn't know how the world was not recorded area had long been a venue for political protest, and two different dates have been givenI didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. It was the deposition of his fatherThis book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's childless cousin Richard II in 1399 which placed him directly in context for the line whole season of successionprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445655411</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Warner 0648684806|title=Isabella of FranceClara Colby: The Rebel Queen |rating= 5|genre= History|summary= Ask almost anyone what they know about Isabella, Queen of King Edward II. The chances are that they will tell you she was ‘the she-wolf of France’ who was so infuriated by her gay husband’s propensity for disastrous favourites that she took a lover and they conspired to depose him, then have him murdered in captivity. The truth is somewhat different. To use an old cliché, if you throw enough mud it will stick. A good deal has adhered to this seemingly much-maligned couple over the years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647400</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewInternational Suffragist|author=Penrose Halson|title=Marriages Are Made in Bond Street: True Stories from a 1940's Marriage BureauJohn Holliday

|summary=On 13 November 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was released from house arrest after spending 15 of probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the previous 21 time she was just three-years as a prisoner -old but because of Burma's military junta. Political reforms soon followedsome childhood ailment, culminating with Suu (as she prefers wasn't allowed to be known) being elected to parliamentsail with her parents and three brothers. The West rejoiced; leaders Instead, business menshe remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and tourists poured saw that she received a good education, both in; and Suu entered the pantheon out of modern-day political heroesschool. Burma She was a burgeoning democracythe only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of the United States and Suu life was a saint. In realityhard, as Peter Popham argues in 'The Lady Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the Generals'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 situation eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was far more complexa rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846043719</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kristie Dean1783784350|title= On the Trail of the Yorks|rating= 4.5|genre= This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|summary= Just when you wondered whether there was room on your shelves for another book on the Yorkist dynasty, here comes a very enterprising addition. Part biography, part travel guide, this is a guidebook comprising a tour of various places at home and abroad associated with the major figures. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647133</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Edith Hall|title=The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern WorldEsther Rutter|rating= 5

|summary= Reading Edith Hall's book on the Ancient Greeks, develops a deep respect for the power of poetry. No poet It was December and Esther Rutter was more effective stuck in this regard than Homer recounting the sea adventures contained in the 'her office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The Odyssey''job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. It shaped the self-definition of January was going to be a nation time for making changes and engendered self-confidence. The mariners set out in their beautiful ships across she decided that she would travel the Aegean length and established colonies to breadth of the WestBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, in discovering and telling the Mediterranean as far as the Pillars story of Hercules, to the East as far as the Levant wool's history and how it had made and built trading cities in natural harbours along changed the fertile edges of the Black Sealandscape. They were, as Plato wrote She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the Phaedo, farm''around the sea- and learned to spin, like frogs knit and ants around a pondweave from her mother and her mother's friend.'' They were encouraged by Delphic oracles and inspired by the company of diving dolphins This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958364X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lyuba Vinogradova and Arch Tait (translator)1789017977|title=Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought HitlerRonnie and Hilda's AcesRomance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating=2.54

|summary=If you picture a wartime fighter ace in your mind, chances are it will hold to a few certain characteristicsRonnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. The chutzpah on the face of a Han Solo, a fluffy pilotThere's jacket perhaps, the swagger of a person whosome doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's faced and dealt death and come out the other side only strongerbirthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, someone who can carry off the look of pilot's goggles – but he was already many years older than Ethel and whatever your visual impression, pretty much certainly he might well have shaved a malefew years off his age. But consider For a while the Soviet war machine, facing family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the Nazis easily absorbing Ukrainian territories 1929 Depression and closing on Moscow with surprising rapidityfive-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. This is a country where all jobs are gender neutral, One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and where young girls fresh out of school had been building the Moscow Underground stationsthis would stay with him throughout his life. No wonder, then, that that place and that cause were He joined the locations for the world's first, and apparently, only female air regimentsarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051954</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Aubrey1980891117|title= Brief LivesG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyArt|summary= John Aubrey George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a modest man, an antiquarian and career lasting from the 1770s to the inventor of modern biographyRegency era. His lives He was also one of the prominent figures of his generation include Shakespearemost prolific, Miltonpainting nearly 5, and Sir Walter Raleigh. Funny, illuminating and full 000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of historical details, they have been plundered by historians for centuriesKing George III). Here Aubrey's biographical writings are collected, painting a series Throughout most of unforgettable portraits that time he carefully recorded the names of the characters each of his day – all more alive clients, and kicking than in a conventional history subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870331</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lauren Johnson1789016304|title= So Great a PrinceWar and Love: England and the Accession A family's testament of Henry VIII|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= King Henry VII, whose victory at the battle of Bosworth in 1485 brought the curtain down on the Wars of the Rosesanguish, brought peace endurance and stability to a divided country, but his last few years were marked by corruption and repression. When he died devotion in 1509, there were hopes that his eighteen-year-old heir, now Henry VIII, would mark the end of medieval England and the start of a new era. The age of Protestantism and the Renaissance would indeed fulfil these aspirations. Lauren Johnson's book examines in fascinating detail the transitional year between the old and the new.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185985X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewoccupied Amsterdam|author=Delia Garratt and Tara Hamling (editors)|title=Shakespeare and the Stuff of Life: Treasures from the Shakespeare Birthplace TrustMelanie Martin

|summary=You remember that thing the British Museum did a few years backMelanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, where they picked the best particularly in ''The Diary of the best they owned – 100 objects Ann Frank'' but then realised that most epitomised both her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the riches of city during the place war years, but only five thousand survived and the cultures it was designed Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to represent? German occupation. Well, it seems Most people believed that idea has legs. It’s been repeated, the occupation could never happen: even, for those who thought that the Germans might reach the purpose of illuminating just one man – and you can probably guess city were convinced that man was Mr Shakespeare. There has indeed been a project to pick a hundred limelights to illuminate his texts and his timesthey would soon be pushed back, although for that the purpose of this book they have been whittled down Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to fifty – and arranged by theme according to Jaques' 'Seven Ages of Man' speech from ''As You Like It''. And escalate in the chances areway that it did, seeing but initial protests melted away as the results are almost organisers became more powerful here than in the best museum, you will like it very much indeedcircumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474222269</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peggy Caravantes1908745819|title=Marooned in the ArcticSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie

|genre=BiographyHistory|summary=Misogynists are manmade. And if anyone was in Sometimes when people suggest that you read a position to hate men and the lot certain book, they put tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their shouldersword, it was Ava Blackjack. Her surname spoke of an abusive man she had a son byor not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it was her time with four other men turns out that made for one of we didn't like the last centurybook. That's more remarkable storiesa rare experience. An Inuit nativePeople who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, but one brought up in a city and with English lessonsrarely get it wrong. In this case, she I was invited on told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering ''an excursion alongside many other older, less tethered sense of herself.'Eskimo' and four intrepid Westerners, Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the uninhabited Wrangel Islandnatural world, perched off of those aspects of the northern Siberian coast. They were there just to stick a flag in it poetic and call it Britishlyrical that are about style not form, even if they were pretty much fully American and Canadiansubstance most of all, and the chap whose ideas these all were bore an Icelandic about connection. Of course, this book had my name; she on it. It was along written for me. It would have found its way to provide native expertise, especially waterproof fur clothingme eventually. And that was I am pleased to have it – none of her kin joined her, leaving her in one tent and four men in another, in one of the world's most remote and inhospitable placesfall onto my path so quickly. And that was just the start of her worries…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613730985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Margaret MacMillan0857058320|title= History's People: Personalities Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and the PastAnne McLean (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= According ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the 19th century historian Thomas Carlyle, author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the history of meaning behind his great uncle's death in the world Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is but the biography of great menfigure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Historian Margaret McMillan acknowledges in her introduction to Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this volume, based on a series dictator. The question at the centre of recent lectures, that there this book is a long-standing debate in history over whether events are moved either by individuals or by economic and social changes or technological and scientific advances, and suggests that there it is no right or possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong answerside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781255121</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David P Colley0008294011|title=Seeing the WarHow to Lose a Country: The Stories Behind the Famous Photographs 7 Steps from World War IIDemocracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating=4.5

|summary=As anybody could tell, A little while ago a still photograph is only part of the truth, friend asked me if I thought thatwe 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.. .'' There is I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a beforehand good or bad thing that we dondidn't see, and an after we can only fantasise about unless we know otherwisewhat all 'this' was leading to. Take the famous image of wartime grunts pushing the flag pole upright – an icon of the War in the Pacific for the US soldiers, and the films made about Iwo Jima sinceI think now that I do know. But other images We are in danger of the war have been just as long-lasting, losing democracy and the people in the photos donwhilst it's a flawed system I can't always have movies made think of their full story arc. This book is a collection of better one, particularly as the images, and a corrective to that narrative lack, giving much more of a full biography with which to pay tribute'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611687268</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy W Ryback1788037812|title=Hitler's First VictimsThe Fraternity of the Estranged: And One Man's Race The Fight for JusticeHomosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=45

|summary=Four peopleOriginally passed in 1885, taken to the law that had made homosexual relations a sheltered corner of the crime remained in place they're trappedfor 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and shot in 1908, three books on the back nature of the head homosexuality appeared. They were written by fresh-faced guards two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and soldiers with far too little experience of anythingJohn Addington Symonds, let alone treating other men on as well as the wrong end of a gunheterosexual Havelock Ellis. Three people ''unceremoniously dumped, like slain game, on Exploring the floor margins of a nearby ammunition shed'' – society and studying homosexuality was common on the fourth had two hellish days with at least one bullet wound to the brain before he passed away. All four over-worked from being in a Nazi establishmentEuropean Continent, all four probably killed merely for being Jewish. Not a remarkable story, it's horrid to think, due to there being but barely talked about six million cases of this happening. What is remarkable about this instance is that it was in the firstUK, at so the incredible time publications of April 1933. And if it seems these men were hugely significant – contributing to the first in a long chain scientific understanding of such murdershomosexuality, you would think people might have noticed that at and beginning the timestruggle for recognition and equality, and tried leading to do something about it. Well, they didthe milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700169</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Burke1910593508|title=The New Threat From Islamic MilitancyApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=45|genre=Politics and SocietyHistory|summary=Barely This incredible graphic novel is a day passes without Islamic militancy making headlines somewhere in love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the worldsubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and yet it can be Mike Collins. This is a hard subject to grasp. The sudden rise of Islamic State story we know well and their campaign because of shocking violence both this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the Middle East and further afield has left many confused and fearful, and has provoked a sometimes extreme political responseblanks. In "The New Threat From Islamic Militancy", Jason Burke, a journalist with two decades of experience reporting on These shortcuts are the Islamic world, attempts only downside to correct the many misconceptions about Islamic extremism to give book. If you've ever read a true understanding comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the threat we now faceslight 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701475</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Horobin1786331047|title=How English Became EnglishThe Race to Save the Romanovs: A short history of a global languageThe Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=45

|summary=Angle se yon lang konfizyon. Mwen konnen, paske mwen li liv sa a tout sou li. Now, I know a lot The basic facts about the deaths of you understood that, Nicholas and it's thanks to a certain search engine's 'translate' facility that it exists here in the first placeAlexandra, but hardly any of you would recognise it as Haitian Creole. But pretty much all some of which were deliberately obscured at the words in the two sentences time for various reasons, have come into English through one way or another, through an invasion either literal or linguallong since been established. ''Angle'' – the Anglo-Saxons were For the first speakers last few months of what we now call Old English, which is pretty much impenetrable – certainly harder to read than Creole. The ''konfizyon'' their lives in Russia the ''lang''uage are equally easy to decipherformer Tsar and Tsarina, their children and the second half is pretty close to the French with what seems a German verb few remaining servants were held in it. If you do use regular Englishincreasingly squalid, that's what you're doing – using French with some German, and Latin, and Indian, and the rest, even if that's only as far as vocabulary goes; our grammar is too Germanic to be called anything buthumiliating captivity. It's at this stage one reels out the old gag about English To prevent them from being rescued, in July 1918 the 'lingua franca' revolutionary regime had them all shot and thus proves that however global English isbayoneted to death in circumstances which, it doesn't really stand as its own entity if you give it once the slightest scrutinynews was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0198754272</amazonuk>