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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author= Steven GunnClive Wilkinson|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09BLBP3P8|title= Charles Brandon: Henry VIIINeville Chamberlain's Closest FriendWar: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager|rating= 34.5|genre= History|summary=Charles Brandon, Duke Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of Suffolk, was almost unique in Tudor history in that he was a close friend and companion – in fact the closest – early days of King Henry VIII throughout World War II from 1939-40, known as the latter's reign'Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, never really fell war breaking out of favour, and had Churchill coming in to save the good fortune to die peacefully day. Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in his bedthis book, just eighteen months before his notoriously capricious royal patronit was of vital significance in how the war played out.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3756228711|amazonuktitle=<amazonuk>1445656345</amazonuk>CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating=4|genre=History|summary=''The history of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. He has chosen to tell us about the short, but explosive, history of the Control Data Company, CDC, for whom he worked. It's a fascinating tale, told in a mixture of technological summary and wry anecdote.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hugh Sebag-MontefioreJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Somme: Into the BreachFritz and Kurt

|summary=One-hundred years ago this monthArchaeology cannot be child's play, on when you're scraping in the 1st of July 1916dirt looking to find what you can find, the most notorious battle in the history of the British army began at 07:20 with the detonation of often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a huge mine under the Hawthorn Redoubtfair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. The Battle This book is a case of the Somme had begunlatter, and by as our author promises to locate the end topic of the first day titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the British had suffered nearly 60search area is a wide one,000 casualtiesthe target might not exist any more – oh, 20and it's underwater,000 of whom were killedwhen he cannot dive. Published Latching on to mark a particular D-Day veteran through helping the centenary of heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the battlelanding craft that delivered him to Normandy, Somme: Into the Breach by historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a comprehensive account memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of the conflict told primarily by the soldiers who fought whom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in it.their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670918385</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter RexB09F4CTKJR|title=William the Conqueror: The Bastard of NormandyFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|genre=History Historical Fiction|summary= The basic facts It's the later stages of William World War I's life are inevitably as clouded as those surrounding and the Norman conquest, United States has just entered the events and politics which led conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up to it, and joined the aftermath17 Aero Squadron. As Peter Rex makes clear This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in his introduction, any surviving sources are inevitably very incomplete. MoreoverCanada, 'the writing of first to be attached to the history of RAF and the eleventh century requires first to be sent into the historian skies to attempt fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to provide motives and explanations for events that are only sketchily described at best'master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660172</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Hickley0578761718|title=The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret LegacyInspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver

|summary=One The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the most newsworthy events City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in modern art history happened seemingly by chancerecords. Sadly, When tax police raided the house original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of an aged man London in Munich it 1666. It was because they assumed he had been moving too much money about and paying no tax – this six months rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after he was seen on the train between Bavaria fire and Switzerland with 'nearly too much' cash. The investigators had no casethen survived for centuries until World War II, but he had something much more complex and rich – a massive legacy of 20th Century German and European artwhen it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that collection had wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported to have an origin – one of dubious and at times nefarious beginningsFulton, and one that could have quite a rich and convoluted backgroundMissouri. HickleyThere, in these pages, gives us much in the way grounds of context as well as ironing out those convolutionsWestminster College, so this story is both of interest to Nazi historians the church was rebuilt and art scholars – as well today serves as a memorial to those larger numbers who just like a good story told wellWinston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292574</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Scott1784385166|title=Ancient WorldsThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse

|summary= History can be perceived as a dusty academic backwater. Often viewed as an irrelevance in our modern world, as we race through What is the daily events of our lives. It is a subject first image that has suffered greatly in our education system, where there has always been a tendency comes to teach mind when you think of the subject in isolation, only focussing on 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 events that have shaped our own national identity. Michael ScottThird Reich's new book offers a refreshing changefascist regime in all its iniquity. ''Ancient Worlds'' is thought provoking history for the general readerBut some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to you. Well researched and with a persuasive argumentIn this short volume, he explores Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the period of the interactions across three differing cultures. Interactions that provide a new perspective on our modern worldThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958814</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alexandra HarrisLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= WeatherlandTiananmen 1989: Writers and artists under English skiesOur Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= ReferenceGraphic Novels|summary=The story I never really followed the events of English culture over a thousand years can be told as Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the story second half of changing ideas about the weathertheir teens has other priorities, you know. A sweeping panorama, I certainly didn''Weatherland'' explores how writers t know of the weeks of protests and artists, looking up at hunger strikes from the students before the same skies massacre and walking in the brisk airbirth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, have felt very different things. A journey through centuries and cultures, Harris walks I didn't know more than a spit about the reader through misty moor and foggy fen, lays with them people involved on bright sunlit beaches, treks with them to stormy summits, and introduces them to either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a fascinating cast general browser's context for the whole season of writers, artists and cultural figures along the wayprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0500292655</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jem Duducu0648684806|title= Forgotten HistoryClara Colby: Unbelievable Moments from the PastThe International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryBiography|summary=The numerous highwayspath of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, byways she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and tangents three brothers. 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 chronicle only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of our the United States and life on earth provide was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the raw rata family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for any number of alternative historiesfifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in this book Jem Duducu has trawled magnificently through childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the ages from several centuries BC up to the present dayeldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656345</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Wall1783784350|title= The Anglo-Saxons in 100 FactsThis Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= As one of the generation who It was December and Esther Rutter was introduced stuck in her office job, writing to English history through the people she'Kings d never met and Queens' principle, 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 thoroughly enjoyed it, I have long since regarded she decided that she would travel the period between length and breadth of the Roman invasion British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the Norman conquest as a bit story of a blurwool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. For me it is She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a rather murky area, punctuated by free-range child on the likes of Hengist farm'' - and Horsalearned to spin, Alfred the Great knit and Ethelred the Unready, not to mention the Athelstans, Edgars, Egberts weave from her mother and others who are so often little more than namesher mother's friend. In order words, what exactly did they do? This admirable title brings it all into focuswas in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656388</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Kershaw1789017977|title= 24 Hours at the SommeRonnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating= 54|genre= ReferenceHistory|summary=''They came past one by one...walking lumps Ronnie Williams was the son of clay, with torn clothing, hollow cheeks Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and sunken eyes..Ethel Wall. 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 s some doubt as 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 Darleywhether or not they were ever married or even Harry's Arabianbirthdate: High Lifehe claimed to have been born in 1863, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 Horses|rating=5|genre=Sport|summary=All thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one of just three stallions which came to England about three hundred but he was already many years ago; The Byerley Turk, The Darley Arabian older than Ethel and The Godolphin Arabianhe might well have shaved a few years off his age. The last century or so has seen For a decline while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the lines from the first 1929 Depression and last of these stallions, to the extent that some 95% of all thoroughbreds worldwide five- not just in England year- are descended old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from The Darley Arabian, which his father was originally bought in Aleppo from Bedouin tribesmen his need to be well-turned-out and shipped to Yorkshire in 1704, by Thomas Darley, who died, this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in difficult financial circumstances before he could follow his horse home1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549830</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wade Graham1980891117|title=Dream CitiesG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape A year in the Worldlife of George Engleheart|author=John Webley

|genre= HistoryArt|summary=Between 1950 and 2014 George Engleheart was one of the world's urban population increased leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a career lasting from 746 million the 1770s to 3the Regency era.9 billionHe was also one of the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). The urbanising trend is set to continue with the United Nations predicting Throughout most of that by time he carefully recorded the middle names of the century 66% each of us will be city dwellershis clients, a massive six billion people. How have city planners and architects tried subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to cope with the recent surge? How can they avoid repeating mistakes from the past? Both of those questions are considered in Dream Cities – Seven Urban Ideas That Shape The World, Wade Graham's excellent field guide to the modern worldas his fee book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445659735</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathleen Chater1789016304|title= The Reformation in 100 Facts|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=The Reformation was one of the major events, if not themes War and Love: A family's testament of European history, that has decisively shaped the modern worldanguish, endurance and has inevitably provided material for many a detailed account devotion 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>}}{{newreviewoccupied Amsterdam|author= John Casson and William D Rubinstein|title= Sir Henry Neville Was Shakespeare: The EvidenceMelanie Martin|rating= 4.5

|summary= Debunking Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the Bard of Avon on city during the grounds that he did war years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not write the plays attributed understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to him is nothing newGerman occupation. This scholarly workMost people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, based on several years' research and new evidence, is by no means that the first Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to suggest otherwiseescalate in the way that it did, and provides a compelling argument but initial protests melted away as to who really was the authororganisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654660</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clinton Romesha1908745819|title=Red PlatoonSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie

|summary= When the soldiers of Red Platoon arrived at Combat Outpost KeatingSometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan, the vulnerabilities of the outpost were frighteningly obvious. It was surrounded they tell you ''this one has your name on all sides by steep and wooded hills, giving the Taliban excellent vantage points to observe the outpost and fire into it; the helicopter landing zone''. Mostly we take them at their word, essential for bringing in supplies and evacuating the woundedor not, was situated outside but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the base across book. That's a river; and the perimeter was too large to be sufficiently defendedrare experience. These weaknesses were also obvious People who are sensitive to the Talibanhearing a book calling your name, and on the 3rd October 2009rarely get it wrong. In this case, just after dawn, they launched a full-out assault to capture the baseI was told why. Red Platoon is a first-hand account The blurb speaks of the frantic battle that followedauthor considering ''an older, written by Staff Sergeant Clinton Romesha who received the Medal less tethered sense of Honor for his actionsherself.'' Older.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848094647</amazonuk> }}{{newreview|author= Teresa Cole|title= Henry V: The Life of the Warrior King & the Battle of Agincourt|rating= 4Less tethered.5|genre= Biography|summary= Henry V is remembered as one of EnglandThat's greatest warrior kings, not least as a result bad description of his immortalisation in the play by Shakespeare (as well as by two film versions of the drama)where I am. Ironically he was one Add to that my love of several great-grandchildren the natural world, of Edward III, and as he was considered relatively unimportant at the time those aspects of his birth, exactly when he arrived in the world was poetic and lyrical that are about style not recorded form, and two different dates have been given. It was the deposition substance most of his father's childless cousin Richard II in 1399 which placed him directly in the line of successionall, about connection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445655411</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kathryn Warner |title=Isabella of France: The Rebel Queen |rating= 5|genre= History|summary= Ask almost anyone what they know about IsabellaOf course, Queen of King Edward IIthis book had my name on it. The chances are that they will tell you she It was ‘the she-wolf of France’ who was so infuriated by her gay husband’s propensity written for disastrous favourites that she took a lover and they conspired me. It would have found its way to depose him, then have him murdered in captivityme eventually. The truth is somewhat different. To use an old cliché, if you throw enough mud I am pleased to have it will stick. A good deal has adhered to this seemingly much-maligned couple over the yearsfall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647400</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Penrose Halson0857058320|title=Marriages Are Made in Bond Street: True Stories from a 1940's Marriage BureauLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|summary=Audrey Parsons had no desire ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to marryuncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Her mother, however, had quite different ideas and was insistent that her daughter find a husband, as their would be no place Cercas is searching for her at the family farm when she was oldermeaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. Frustrated by her lack of optionsManuel Mena, Audrey bowed to pressure and went to stay with her Cercas' great uncle in India in , is the hope of finding a husband. When she arrived she was overwhelmed by all of figure who looms large over the male attention she receivedbook. In the colonies, eligible women were few and far between and men were desperate He died relatively young whilst fighting for wivesFrancisco Franco's forces. Although she didn't find a husband, she hit upon an idea that would kill two birds with one stone: she would find wives Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for these lonely men, whilst this dictator. The question at the same time creating centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a business that would allow her hero whilst having fought for the financial independence she craved. The Marriage Bureau was bornwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282620</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Popham 0008294011|title=How to Lose a Country: The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran

|summary= Reading Edith HallA 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 's book on 'Discuss the Ancient Greeks, develops a deep respect for the power of poetryfactors which led to... No poet '' I agreed that she was more effective in this regard than Homer recounting the sea adventures contained in the right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn'The Odysseyt know what all 'this'was leading to. It shaped the self-definition of a nation and engendered self-confidence I think now that I do know. The mariners set out We are in their beautiful ships across the Aegean and established colonies to the West, in the Mediterranean as far as the Pillars danger of Hercules, to the East as far as the Levant losing democracy and built trading cities in natural harbours along the fertile edges whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of the Black Sea. They werea better one, particularly as Plato wrote in the Phaedo, 'benevolent dictator'around the sea, like frogs and ants around a pond.is as rare as hen'' They were encouraged by Delphic oracles and inspired by the company of diving dolphinss teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958364X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lyuba Vinogradova and Arch Tait (translator)1788037812|title=Defending The Fraternity of the MotherlandEstranged: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler's AcesFight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=2.5

|summary=If you picture a wartime fighter ace Originally passed in your mind1885, chances are it will hold to the law that had made homosexual relations a few certain characteristicscrime remained in place for 82 years. The chutzpah But during this time, restrictions on the face of a Han Solo, a fluffy pilot's jacket perhapssame-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the swagger nature of a person who's faced homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and dealt death and come out John Addington Symonds, as well as the other side only stronger, someone who can carry off heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the look margins of pilot's goggles – society and whatever your visual impressionstudying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, pretty much certainly a male. But consider but barely talked about in the Soviet war machineUK, facing so the Nazis easily absorbing Ukrainian territories and closing on Moscow with surprising rapidity. This is a country where all jobs are gender neutral, and where young girls fresh out publications of school had been building these men were hugely significant – contributing to the Moscow Underground stations. No wonder, thenscientific understanding of homosexuality, that that place and that cause were beginning the locations struggle for the world's first, recognition and apparentlyequality, only female air regimentsleading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051954</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Aubrey1910593508|title= Brief Lives|rating= 4|genre= Biography|summary= John Aubrey was a modest man, an antiquarian and the inventor of modern biography. His lives of the prominent figures of his generation include Shakespeare, Milton, and Sir Walter Raleigh. Funny, illuminating and full of historical details, they have been plundered by historians for centuries. Here Aubrey's biographical writings are collected, painting a series of unforgettable portraits of the characters of his day – all more alive and kicking than in a conventional history book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870331</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewApollo|author= Lauren Johnson|title= So Great a Prince: England and the Accession 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 Roses, brought peace and stability to a divided country, but his last few years were marked by corruption and repression. When he died in 1509, there were hopes that his eighteen-year-old heir, now Henry VIIIMatt Fitch, 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>}}{{newreview|author=Delia Garratt and Tara Hamling (editors)|title=Shakespeare Chris Baker and the Stuff of Life: Treasures from the Shakespeare Birthplace TrustMike Collins

|summary=You remember that thing This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the British Museum did subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a few years backstory we know well and because of this, where they picked the best of the best they owned – 100 objects authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that most epitomised both we can fill in the riches of blanks. These shortcuts are the place and only downside to the cultures it was designed to represent? Well, it seems that idea has legsbook. It’s been repeated, even, for If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the purpose of illuminating just one man – slight feeling that there are scenes missing and you can probably guess that man was Mr Shakespeare. There dialogue has indeed been trimmed. This is a project to pick a hundred limelights to illuminate his texts and his times, although for the purpose of this book they graphic novel that could easily have been whittled down to fifty – three times as long and arranged by theme according to Jaques' 'Seven Ages of Man' speech from ''As You Like It''. And the chances are, seeing as the results are almost more powerful here than in the best museum, you will like it very much indeedstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474222269</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peggy Caravantes1786331047|title=Marooned in The Race to Save the ArcticRomanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport

|summary=As anybody could tell, a still photograph is only part of the truth, if that. There is a beforehand we don't see, and an after we can only fantasise The basic facts about unless we know otherwise. Take the famous image deaths of wartime grunts pushing the flag pole upright – an icon Nicholas and Alexandra, some of which were deliberately obscured at the War in the Pacific time for the US soldiersvarious reasons, and the films made about Iwo Jima have long sincebeen established. But other images of the war have been just as long-lasting, and For the people in the photos don't always have movies made last few months of their full story arc. This book is a collection of lives in Russia the images, former Tsar and a corrective to that narrative lack, giving much more of a full biography with which to pay tribute.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611687268</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Timothy W Ryback|title=Hitler's First Victims: And One Man's Race for Justice|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Four people, taken to a sheltered corner of the place they're trappedTsarina, their children and shot few remaining servants were held in the back of the head by fresh-faced guards and soldiers with far too little experience of anythingincreasingly squalid, let alone treating other men on the wrong end of a gunhumiliating captivity. Three people ''unceremoniously dumpedTo prevent them from being rescued, like slain game, on the floor of a nearby ammunition shed'' – in July 1918 the fourth revolutionary regime had two hellish days with at least one bullet wound them all shot and bayoneted to the brain before he passed away. All four over-worked from being death in a Nazi establishmentcircumstances which, once the news was confirmed beyond all four probably killed merely for being Jewish. Not a remarkable storydoubt, it's horrid to think, due to there being about six million cases of this happening. What is remarkable about this instance is that it was the first, at the incredible time of April 1933. And if it seems the first horrified their relatives in a long chain of such murders, you would think people might have noticed that at the time, and tried to do something about it. Well, they didEurope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700169</amazonuk>