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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna Bikont|title= The Crime and the Silence|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= Where was your father? Where was your brother, your mother, your uncle? These are the questions Anna Bikont struggles to ask during her investigation into a shocking act of violence committed against the Jewish community in Jedwabne during the summer of 1941. The Crime and the Silence weaves together journals, interviews and pictures to share the story of a community torn apart by hatred and intolerance. It is also a moving testament to the dedication of Bikont, who documents her struggle to find the truth with grace and dignity in the face of silence, rationalisation, and even anger, from members of the Polish community who would rather not stir up the crimes of the past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592525</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Susan Higginbotham1785633457|title= Margaret PoleCharging Around: The Countess in Exploring the Tower|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary= The fate Edges of Margaret Pole, who as the cover says has a good claim to the title of 'the last Plantagenet', was a sorry one. As a close relation of the Yorkists and the Tudors at a time of upheaval, her life was overshadowed England by the executions of several of her family – and ultimately leading to her own, largely it seems, for the 'crime' of being who she was.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445635941</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewElectric Car|author=Peter Doggett|title= Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of PopClive Wilkinson

|genre=EntertainmentTravel|summary= For many of us, it must be difficult to imagine Clive Wilkinson has a life without recorded music. Millions history of us must have grown up travelling by unconventional means with, even to, a very varied soundtrack consisting of one genre after anotherpreference for slow travel. In this book, Peter Doggett takes a marvellous broad sweep through As he neared his eightieth birthday the history idea of popular music from exploring the end edges of the nineteenth century to the present day, from wax cylinders to streaming servicesEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. A rather maudlin ditty 'After The Ball'In fact, by Charles K. Harrisit should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, is regarded as the first modern popular song (wellJoan, shouldn't it was modern in 1891) – the first of millions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184792218X</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen RappaportB09BLBP3P8|title=Caught in the RevolutionNeville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager|rating=4.5

|summary= Few cities have experienced a year more dramatic than Petrograd in 1917Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. The city, now known as St Petersburg, went through two revolutions: One such is the scrubbing from the first a popular uprising that brought down imagination of the Romanov dynastyearly days of World War II from 1939-40, known as the second a Bolshevik coup that led to the formation of the Soviet Union''Phoney War''. At the time, Petrograd was home to a large expatriate community, including diplomatsWe remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, journalistswar breaking out, and businessmen. Many kept diaries or wrote letters home, vividly describing Churchill coming in to save the chaos unfolding at their doorstepday. In Caught Very little time is spent on this period in the Revolutioncultural reflections and yet, Helen Rappaport draws on as Frederic Seager argues in this material to give a gripping first-hand account book, it was of vital significance in how the Russian Revolution, as told by those who lived through itwar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958954</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Melissa Mohr3756228711|title= Holy Sh*tCDC: A brief history of swearing The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating= 3.54|genre= History|summary= Holy Sh*t as ''The history of the name suggests looks at both swearing, in Biblical terms, development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. He has chosen to swearingtell us about the short, also usually in Biblical terms but with rather more emphasis on explosive, history of the actControl Data Company, CDC, rather than the deityfor whom he worked. This book takes the reader on It's a journey from the Old Testamentfascinating tale, when swearing your allegiance to the one true God was told in a prerequisite for staying alive, to the Middle Ages where swearing on the same God was punishable by rather grisly death. That takes care mixture of the Holy, now onto the part you are really interested in, the Sh*ttechnological summary and wry anecdote. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>019049168X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenifer RobertsJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=The Beauty of Her Age: A Tale of Sex, Scandal Fritz and Money in Victorian EnglandKurt|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary= The name We start with the pair of Yolande Stephens (nee Duvernay) is not that well-known 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 annals of Victorian Englandneighbours, but behind being dutiful when it lies an enthralling rags-comes to-riches sagathe synagogue choir and at a vocational school. How did 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 young girl born into poverty in Paris become one of light switch. But this is the most celebrated ballerinas of her time in Englandjust before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and after that one instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the richest women round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the countryyounger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, with a fortune unknown initially to each other, packed off on her death which rivalled that the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of Queen Victoria?all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445653206</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gordon StevensJohn Henry Phillips|title=The Originals: The Secret History of the Birth of the SASSearch

|summary= The SAS is a regiment shrouded Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in secrecy. Since its spectacular rise the dirt looking to fame during the Iranian Embassy siege in 1978find what you can find, it has become often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a part of myth and folklorefair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. The paradox This book is that more words have probably been written about this organisation than any other military unit in the world. Some are well researched, and have a genuine historical perspective on case of the regiments operations and activities. Others are pure fantasylatter, which add little, other than further as our author promises to locate the mystique topic of a regiment that lives in the shadowstitular search. And he really hasn''The Originals'' provides t made it easy for himself – the search area is a fresh perspective. It tells the story of the birth of the SASwide one, by the people who were there. In a series of long forgotten interviewstarget might not exist any more – oh, the regiment is brought to life with fresh insight and wonderful anecdotes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091901820</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Steven Gunn|title= Charles Brandon: Henry VIIIit's Closest Friend|rating= 3.5|genre= History|summary=Charles Brandonunderwater, Duke of Suffolk, was almost unique in Tudor history in that when he was cannot dive. Latching on to a close friend and companion – in fact the closest – of King Henry VIII throughout particular D-Day veteran through helping the latterheroic old man's reign, never really fell out of favour, and had the good fortune visit back to die peacefully in his bedFrance, just eighteen months before his notoriously capricious royal patron.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656345</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|our author=Hugh Sebag-Montefiore|title=Somme: Into has promised to find the Breach|rating=4|genre=History|summary=One-hundred years ago this monthlanding craft that delivered him to Normandy, on the 1st of July 1916, the most notorious battle in the history of the British army began at 07:20 with the detonation of a huge mine under the Hawthorn Redoubtand that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The Battle of the Somme had begunsecondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, and by the end of the first day the British had suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, 20,000 vast majority of whom were killedperished. Published Who else would make such promises to mark the centenary of the battle, Somme: Into the Breach by historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore is a comprehensive account of the conflict told primarily by the soldiers who fought 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 Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at Combat Outpost Keatingtheir word, in Nuristan Province, Afghanistanor not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the vulnerabilities of the outpost were frighteningly obviousbook. That's a rare experience. It was surrounded on all sides by steep and wooded hillsPeople who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, giving the Taliban excellent vantage points to observe the outpost and fire into rarely get it; the helicopter landing zonewrong. In this case, essential for bringing in supplies and evacuating I was told why. The blurb speaks of the woundedauthor considering ''an older, was situated outside the base across less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a river; and the perimeter was too large to be sufficiently defendedbad description of where I am. These weaknesses were also obvious Add to that my love of the Talibannatural world, of those aspects of the poetic and on the 3rd October 2009lyrical that are about style not form, just after dawnand substance most of all, they launched a full-out assault to capture the baseabout connection. Red Platoon is a first-hand account of the frantic battle that followedOf course, this book had my name on it. It was written by Staff Sergeant Clinton Romesha who received the Medal of Honor for his actionsme. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848094647</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Teresa Cole0857058320|title= Henry V: The Life of the Warrior King & Lord Of All the Battle of AgincourtDead|ratingauthor= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Henry V is remembered as one of England's greatest warrior kings, not least as a result of his immortalisation in the play by Shakespeare Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (as well as by two film versions of the dramatranslator). Ironically he was one of several great-grandchildren of Edward III, and as he was considered relatively unimportant at the time of his birth, exactly when he arrived in the world was not recorded and two different dates have been given. It was the deposition of his father's childless cousin Richard II in 1399 which placed him directly in the line of succession.|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 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>}}{{newreview|author=Penrose Halson|title=Marriages Are Made in Bond Street: True Stories from a 1940's Marriage Bureau

|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

|genre=BiographyHistory|summary=On 13 November 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest after spending 15 of the previous 21 A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years as a prisoner of Burma's military junta. Political reforms soon followed, culminating with Suu (as she prefers to come would be known) being elected discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to parliament. The West rejoiced; leaders, business men, and tourists poured in; and Suu entered the pantheon of modern-day political heroes. Burma .'' I agreed that she was a burgeoning democracy, right and Suu wasn't certain whether it was a saintgood or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. In reality, as Peter Popham argues We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it'The Lady and the Generalss a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the situation was far more complex'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846043719</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kristie Dean1788037812|title= On the Trail The Fraternity of the YorksEstranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= Just when you wondered whether there was room Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on your shelves for another book same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the Yorkist dynastynature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, here comes a very enterprising additionas well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Part biographyExploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, part travel guidebut barely talked about in the UK, this is a guidebook comprising a tour so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of various places at home homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and abroad associated with equality, leading to the major figuresmilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647133</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edith Hall1910593508|title=The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern WorldApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating= 5

|summary= Reading Edith Hall's book on the Ancient Greeks, develops This incredible graphic novel is a deep respect for love letter to the power of poetry. No poet was more effective in this regard than Homer recounting Moon landings and the sea adventures contained in passion for the ''The Odyssey''subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. It shaped the self-definition of This is a nation story we know well and engendered self-confidence. The mariners set out in their beautiful ships across because of this, the Aegean and established colonies to the West, authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the Mediterranean as far as blanks. These shortcuts are the Pillars of Hercules, only downside to the East as far as the Levant and built trading cities in natural harbours along the fertile edges of the Black Seabook. They were, as Plato wrote in the Phaedo, If you''around ve ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the sea, like frogs slight feeling that there are scenes missing and ants around that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a pond.'' They were encouraged by Delphic oracles graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and inspired by the company of diving dolphinsstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958364X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lyuba Vinogradova and Arch Tait (translator)1786331047|title=Defending The Race to Save the MotherlandRomanovs: The Soviet Women Who Fought HitlerTruth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's AcesImperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=2.5

|summary=If you picture a wartime fighter ace in your mind, chances are it will hold to a few certain characteristics. The chutzpah on basic facts about the face deaths of a Han SoloNicholas and Alexandra, a fluffy pilot's jacket perhapssome of which were deliberately obscured at the time for various reasons, have long since been established. For the swagger last few months of a person who's faced and dealt death their lives in Russia the former Tsar and come out the other side only strongerTsarina, someone who can carry off the look of pilot's goggles – their children and whatever your visual impressionfew remaining servants were held in increasingly squalid, pretty much certainly a malehumiliating captivity. But consider the Soviet war machineTo prevent them from being rescued, facing in July 1918 the Nazis easily absorbing Ukrainian territories and closing on Moscow with surprising rapidity. This is a country where revolutionary regime had them all jobs are gender neutral, shot and where young girls fresh out of school had been building the Moscow Underground stations. No wonder, thenbayoneted to death in circumstances which, that that place and that cause were once the locations for the world's firstnews was confirmed beyond all doubt, and apparently, only female air regimentshorrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051954</amazonuk>