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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=John MatthewsClive 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=Robin HoodNeville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager

|summary= The Outlaw Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of Sherwood Forest has been part the early days of national mythology ever since World War II from 1939-40, known as the twelfth century''Phoney War''. Did Mr Hood really existWe remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, or and Churchill coming in to save the day. Very little time is he a figment of popular imagination who refuses to go quietly? If historians spent on this period in cultural reflections and researchers over the ages are to be believedyet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was of vital significance in how the truth seems to lie somewhere in betweenwar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia Ginzburg3756228711|title=Notes from the BlockadeCDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating=54|genre=Autobiography History|summary=With ''The history of the scenes from war torn Syria brought to our screens every night, development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'Notes from the blockade'  Author Hans Bodmer is a timely bookquite right about that. It is He has chosen to tell us about the remarkable story short, but explosive, history of Lydia Ginzburgthe Control Data Company, CDC, for whom he worked. It's survival during the 900-day siege a fascinating tale, told in a mixture of Leningrad during World War 2technological summary and wry anecdote. With beautiful prose full }}{{Frontpage|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Fritz and Kurt|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start with the pair of Russian melancholy brothers Fritz and pragmatismKurt, 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 details daily life in comes to the besieged citysynagogue choir and at a vocational school. I have Kurt has to confess that I found 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 to be one of is the time just before the most moving books that it has ever been my pleasure Austrian leader is going to read. Pleasure may be a strange choice of words cave to describe a book recounting horrifying eventsHitler's will, but it came from the lyrical quality and instead of having a national vote to keep the writingNazis out, invite them in with open arms. Ginzburg ''s prose is simply beautifulKristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. Her descriptions of These in their turn leave the minutiae younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of everyday life, as it descends into an evacuation to Britain or the abyssUS, while Fritz and his father are , unknown initially to each other, packed off on the most human I have encounteredsame train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. It is And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this that leaves its mark long after the final page is turned.could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099583380</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicholas StargardtJohn Henry Phillips|title=The German WarSearch

|summary=History 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 dry subject fair bit harder when it focusses only on events and you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of the key people that shaped them. Howeverlatter, when it uses those events as the backdrop our author promises to locate the lives topic of ordinary people it truly comes to lifethe titular search. ‘The German WarAnd he really hasn' t made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the story of the second world war through the eyes of a diverse group of Germans. It tells their storiestarget might not exist any more – oh, with great candour and humanityit's underwater, as it follows when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the build up heroic old man's visit back to the warFrance, our author has promised to find the war itself and its aftermath. Using detailed researchlanding craft that delivered him to Normandy, interviews and anecdotal evidence, Nicholas Stargardt has created a narrative that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is both to erect a historical record memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's the later stages of World War I and compellingthe United States has just entered the conflict. Its scope is massive but it Petrol Petronus is a tremendous achievementyoung American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. Books from This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the allies' perspective are many RAF and varied; as a resultthe first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, this can lead Petrol has to a distortion of master flying the historical recordnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. This work addresses this imbalance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953987X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teresa Cole0578761718|title= The Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror's Subjugation Inspiring History of Englanda Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver

|summary=Long regarded as The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the most pivotal date City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in English historyrecords. Sadly, not least to generations the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of us familiar with London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the 1930s Sellar fire and Yeatman spoof history then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn'1066 And All Thatt the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported to Fulton, Missouri. There, in the year grounds of Westminster College, the Norman Conquest has long been seen church was rebuilt and today serves as a relatively isolated event as well as the start of a new era for our island story. The full picture was inevitably more complexmemorial to Winston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445649225</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= James Sharpe1784385166|title= A Fiery and Furious PeopleThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Violence in EnglandNazi Germany|rating= 4|genre= History |summary= From the tragic tale of Mary Clifford, whose death at the hands of her employer scandalised Georgian London, to Victorian Manchester's scuttling gangs, to a duel obsessed cavalier, author James Sharpe explores the brutal underside of our national life. As it considers the litany of assaults, murders and riots that pepper our history, it also traces the shifts that have taken place in the nature of violence and in people's attitudes to it. Why was it, for example, that wife-beating could at once be simultaneously legal and so frowned upon that persistent offenders might well end up ducking in the village pond? How could foot ball be regarded at one moment as a raucous pastime that should be banned, and next as a respectable sport that should be encouraged? Professor James Sharpe draws on an astonishingly wide range of material to paint vivid pictures of the nation's criminals and criminal system from medieval times to the present day. He gives a strong sense of what it was like to be caught up in a street brawl in medieval Oxford one minute, and a battle during the English Civil War the next. Looking at a country that has experienced not only constant aggression on an individual scale, but also the Peasants' Revolt, the Gordon Riots, the Poll Tax protests and the urban unrest of summer 2011, this book asks – are we becoming a gentler nation? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847945139</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jan Bondeson|title= Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian AncestorsRoger Moorhouse|rating=45

|summary= What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Victorians, not surprisingly, had their own tabloid press. Nazi salute? The most successful title gate to a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of this nature was the Third Reich'Illustrated Police News', a weekly journal first published s fascist regime in 1864 all its iniquity. But some objects and lasting seventy-four yearsimages from that time may be less familiar to you. Not In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to be confused with illustrate the more upmarket 'Illustrated London News', its main stock-in-trade was weird, far-fetched and not always entirely genuine stories from Victorian life, generally in Britain but sometimes in Europe as well. This book is based on a recently-discovered archive period of the paper. Prepare to be amazed, enthralled, sometimes horrified – and occasionally disbelievingThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445658852</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna BikontLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= The Crime and the SilenceTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryGraphic Novels|summary= Where was your father? Where was your brother, your mother, your uncle? These are I never really followed the questions Anna Bikont struggles to ask during her investigation into a shocking act events of violence committed against the Jewish community Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in Jedwabne during the summer second half of 1941their teens has other priorities, you know. The Crime and I certainly didn't know of the Silence weaves together journals, interviews and pictures to share the story weeks of a community torn apart by hatred protests and intolerance. It is also a moving testament to hunger strikes from the dedication of Bikont, who documents her struggle to find students before the truth with grace massacre and dignity in the face birth of silencethe Tank Man image, rationalisationI didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and even anger, from members of I didn't know more than a spit about the Polish community who would rather not stir up people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the crimes whole season of the pastprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099592525</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susan Higginbotham0648684806|title= Margaret PoleClara Colby: The Countess in the TowerInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday

|summary= The fate path of Margaret PoleClara 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, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who as the cover says has doted on her and saw that she received a good claim to education, both in and out of school. She was the title of 'only child in the last Plantagenet', household and her childhood was a sorry oneglorious. As a close relation By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of the Yorkists United States and the Tudors at a time of upheavallife was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her life was overshadowed by grandparents eventually went to join the executions of several of her family – and ultimately leading to . Clara would only know her ownmother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, largely it seemshad ten pregnancies, for seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the 'crime' of being who she eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin wasa rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445635941</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Doggett1783784350|title= Electric ShockThis Golden Fleece: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of PopA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter

|genre=EntertainmentHistory|summary= For many of usIt was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, it must be difficult writing to imagine a life without recorded musicpeople she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. Millions of us must have grown up with, The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to, be a very varied soundtrack consisting time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of one genre after another. In this bookthe British Isles with occasional forays abroad, Peter Doggett takes a marvellous broad sweep through discovering and telling the story of wool's history of popular music from and how it had made and changed the end of landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the nineteenth century farm'' - and learned to the present dayspin, knit and weave from wax cylinders to streaming services. A rather maudlin ditty 'After The Ballher mother and her mother', by Charles Ks friend. Harris, is regarded as the first modern popular song (well, it This was modern in 1891) – the first of millionsher blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184792218X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Rappaport1789017977|title=Caught in the RevolutionRonnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating=54

|summary= Few cities have experienced a year more dramatic than Petrograd in 1917Ronnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. The city, now known There's some doubt as St Petersburg, went through two revolutionsto whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: the first a popular uprising that brought down the Romanov dynastyhe claimed to have been born in 1863, the second but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a Bolshevik coup that led to the formation of the Soviet Unionfew years off his age. At For a while the time, Petrograd family was home quite well-to a large expatriate community, including diplomats, journalists, and businessmen. Many kept diaries or wrote letters home, vividly describing the chaos unfolding at their doorstep. In Caught -do but disaster struck in the Revolution, Helen Rappaport draws on this material 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to give a gripping first-hand account of the Russian Revolution, as told by those who lived through itvery different lifestyle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958954</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Melissa Mohr|title= Holy Sh*t: A brief history of swearing |rating= 3.5|genre= History|summary= Holy Sh*t as the name suggests looks at both swearing, in Biblical terms, to swearing, also usually in Biblical terms but with rather more emphasis on the act, rather than the deity. This book takes the reader on a journey One thing he did inherit from the Old Testament, when swearing your allegiance to the one true God his father was a prerequisite for staying alive, his need to the Middle Ages where swearing on the same God was punishable by rather grisly deathbe well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. That takes care of He joined the Holy, now onto the part you are really interested army at eighteen in, the Sh*t1942. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>019049168X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenifer Roberts1980891117|title=The Beauty of Her AgeG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A Tale year in the life of Sex, Scandal and Money in Victorian EnglandGeorge Engleheart|author=John Webley

|genre=BiographyArt|summary= The name George Engleheart was one of Yolande Stephens (nee Duvernay) is not that well-known in the annals leading portrait miniaturists of Victorian EnglandGeorgian London, but behind it lies an enthralling rags-with a career lasting from the 1770s to-riches sagathe Regency era. How did a young girl born into poverty in Paris become He was also one of the most celebrated ballerinas prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of her that time in Englandhe carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, and after that one of the richest women in the country, with a fortune on her death which rivalled that of Queen Victoria?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445653206</amazonuk>subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon Stevens1789016304|title=The OriginalsWar and Love: The Secret History A family's testament of the Birth of the SASanguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin

|summary= 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 SAS is a regiment shrouded in secrecyDiary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. Since its spectacular rise to fame A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the Iranian Embassy siege in 1978war years, it has become a part of myth but only five thousand survived and folklore. The paradox is that more words have probably been written about Martin could not understand how this organisation than any other military unit could be allowed to happen in the world. Some are well researched, and have a genuine historical perspective on the regiments operations and activitiescountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Others are pure fantasy, which add little, other than further Most people believed that the mystique of a regiment occupation could never happen: even those who thought that lives in the shadows. ''The Originals'' provides a fresh perspective. It tells Germans might reach the story of city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the birth of Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the SASway that it did, by but initial protests melted away as the people who were thereorganisers became more circumspect. In It's an atrocity on a series vast scale but made up of tens of long forgotten interviews, the regiment is brought to life with fresh insight and wonderful anecdotesthousands of individual tragedies. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091901820</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steven Gunn1908745819|title= Charles Brandon: Henry VIII's Closest FriendSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating= 3.5|genre= History|summary=Charles BrandonSometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, Duke of Suffolkthey tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, was almost unique in Tudor history in but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that he we didn't like the book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was a close friend and companion – in fact told why. The blurb speaks of the closest – author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of King Henry VIII throughout the latterherself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's reignnot a bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the natural world, never really fell out of favourthose aspects of the poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had the good fortune my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to die peacefully in his bed, just eighteen months before his notoriously capricious royal patronhave it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656345</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Sebag-Montefiore0857058320|title=Somme: Into Lord Of All the BreachDead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|summary=One-hundred years ago this month, on ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the 1st of July 1916, author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the most notorious battle meaning behind his great uncle's death in the history of the British army began at 07:20 with the detonation of a huge mine under the Hawthorn RedoubtSpanish Civil War. The Battle of the Somme had begunManuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, and by is the end of figure who looms large over the first day the British had suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, 20,000 of whom were killedbook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. Published to mark The question at the centenary centre of the battle, Somme: Into the Breach by historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a comprehensive account of hero whilst having fought for the conflict told primarily by the soldiers who fought in itwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918385</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Rex0008294011|title=William the ConquerorHow to Lose a Country: The Bastard of Normandy|rating=4.5|genre=History |summary= The basic facts of William I's life are inevitably as clouded as those surrounding the Norman conquest, the events and politics which led up 7 Steps from Democracy to it, and the aftermath. As Peter Rex makes clear in his introduction, any surviving sources are inevitably very incomplete. Moreover, 'the writing of the history of the eleventh century requires the historian to attempt to provide motives and explanations for events that are only sketchily described at best'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660172</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDictatorship|author=Catherine Hickley|title=The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret LegacyEce Temelkuran

|summary=One of the most newsworthy events A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in modern art years to come would be discussed by A level history happened seemingly by chancestudents when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to... '' When tax police raided the house of an aged man in Munich it I agreed that she was because they assumed he had been moving too much money about right and paying no tax – this six months after he wasn't certain whether it was seen on the train between Bavaria and Switzerland with a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'nearly too muchthis' cashwas leading to. The investigators had no case, but he had something much more complex and rich – a massive legacy of 20th Century German and European artI think now that I do know. But that collection had to have an origin – one We are in danger of dubious and at times nefarious beginnings, losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one that could have quite a rich and convoluted background. Hickley, in these pages, gives us much in particularly as the way of context as well as ironing out those convolutions, so this story 'benevolent dictator' is both of interest to Nazi historians and art scholars – as well rare as to those larger numbers who just like a good story told wellhen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292574</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Scott1788037812|title=Ancient WorldsThe Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|summary= History can be perceived as a dusty academic backwater. Often viewed as an irrelevance Originally passed in our modern world1885, as we race through the daily events of our lives. It is a subject law that has suffered greatly in our education system, where there has always been had made homosexual relations a tendency to teach the subject crime remained in isolationplace for 82 years. But during this time, only focussing restrictions on the events that have shaped our own national identitysame-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Michael Scott's new book offers a refreshing change. ''Ancient Worlds'' is thought provoking history for the general reader. Well researched Between 1891 and with a persuasive argument1908, he explores the interactions across three differing cultures. Interactions that provide a new perspective books on our modern world. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958814</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alexandra Harris|title= Weatherland: Writers and artists under English skies|rating= 4.5|genre= Reference|summary=The story of English culture over a thousand years can be told as the story nature of changing ideas about the weatherhomosexuality appeared. A sweeping panorama, ''Weatherland'' explores how writers They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and artistsJohn Addington Symonds, looking up at the same skies and walking in as well as the brisk air, have felt very different thingsheterosexual Havelock Ellis. A journey through centuries and cultures, Harris walks Exploring the reader through misty moor and foggy fen, lays with them on bright sunlit beaches, treks with them to stormy summits, and introduces them to a fascinating cast margins of writers, artists society and cultural figures along the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292655</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|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 studying homosexuality was common on earth provide the raw rata for any number of alternative historiesEuropean Continent, and but barely talked about in this book Jem Duducu has trawled magnificently through the ages from several centuries BC up to UK, so the present day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656345</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Martin Wall|title= The Anglo-Saxons in 100 Facts|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= As one publications of the generation who was introduced these men were hugely significant – contributing 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 scientific understanding of a blur. For me it is a rather murky areahomosexuality, punctuated by the likes of Hengist and Horsa, Alfred beginning the Great struggle for recognition and Ethelred the Unreadyequality, not leading 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 milestone legalisation of clay, with torn clothing, hollow cheeks and sunken eyes...There was a dreadful weariness, but a wildness burning same-sex relationships 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 million1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753555476</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher McGrath1910593508|title=Mr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low LifeApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 HorsesChris Baker and Mike Collins

|summary= Debunking This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Bard Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of Avon on this, the grounds authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that he did not write we can fill in the plays attributed blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to him is nothing newthe book. This scholarly work, based on several yearsIf you' research ve ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and new evidence, that dialogue has been trimmed. This is by no means the first to suggest otherwise, and provides a compelling argument graphic novel that could easily have been three times as to who really was the authorlong and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654660</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clinton Romesha1786331047|title=Red PlatoonThe Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport

|summary= When The basic facts about the soldiers deaths of Red Platoon arrived at Combat Outpost Keating, in Nuristan Province, AfghanistanNicholas and Alexandra, the vulnerabilities some of which were deliberately obscured at the outpost were frighteningly obvioustime for various reasons, have long since been established. It was surrounded on all sides by steep and wooded hills, giving For the Taliban excellent vantage points to observe last few months of their lives in Russia the outpost former Tsar and fire into it; the helicopter landing zoneTsarina, essential for bringing in supplies their children and evacuating the wounded, was situated outside the base across a river; and the perimeter was too large to be sufficiently defended. These weaknesses few remaining servants were also obvious to the Talibanheld in increasingly squalid, and on the 3rd October 2009, just after dawn, they launched a full-out assault to capture the basehumiliating captivity. Red Platoon is a first-hand account of the frantic battle that followed, written by Staff Sergeant Clinton Romesha who received the Medal of Honor for his actions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848094647</amazonuk> }}{{newreview|author= Teresa Cole|title= Henry V: The Life of the Warrior King & the Battle of Agincourt|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Henry V is remembered as one of England's greatest warrior kingsTo prevent them from being rescued, not least as a result of his immortalisation in July 1918 the play by Shakespeare (as well as by two film versions of the drama). Ironically he was one of several great-grandchildren of Edward III, revolutionary regime had them all shot and as he was considered relatively unimportant at the time of his birthbayoneted to death in circumstances which, exactly when he arrived in once the world news was not recorded and two different dates have been given. It was the deposition of his father's childless cousin Richard II confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in 1399 which placed him directly in the line of successionEurope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445655411</amazonuk>