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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 BurgauerClive 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=The Night of The Eleventh SunNeville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager

|genre=Historical FictionHistory|summary=The word 'Neanderthal' has become equated with people deemed Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to have a backward attitude and outlookmisconceptions about history. But what do we know of One such is the original Neanderthals scrubbing from over 200,000 years ago? Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds the knowledge popular imagination of anthropologists, archaeologists and historians with the story early days of Strong Arms, his family and their struggle to survive in a very effectiveWorld War II from 1939-40, and informative way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419671545</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anne Glyn-Jones|title= Morse Code Wrens of Station X|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= Bletchley Park is probably now known as the least secret of all the secret ops that went on during World ''Phoney War II. I for one am pleased about that: technology has moved on so far that there can't be anything that happened back then on the communications front that is worth continuing to shroud in mystery'. With most of the participants either departed or at least in the departure loungeWe remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, the more recollections we can still gather the better. What remained secret far longer howeverwar breaking out, is the work of the telegraphers that served Station X: those posted and Churchill coming in to save the Y-stationsday. There are few of them left to tell their talesVery little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, so I applaud those who finally saw fit (a) to release them from their life-long bonds of secrecy and (b) encourage them to write it downas Frederic Seager argues in this book, tell us what it was really likeof vital significance in how the war played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409086</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=G A Jones3756228711|title=CDC: The Cruise of Naromis: August in the Baltic 1939happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer

|genre=TravelHistory|summary=There's brave, and there is brave. I may well have been born in a coastal county but certainly would baulk at the idea of setting out to sea with four colleagues in a 37'-long boat. Boats to me are like planes – the bigger the better, and the safer I feel as a result. But luckily for the purpose of this book, George Jones was born with a much different pair of sea-legs to mine, and took to the waters of the English Channel, the North Sea and beyond in ''Naromis'' with brio. But – and this is where the further definition of bravery comes in – he did it in August 1939, knowing full well that he would be sailing full tilt into the teeth of war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262334</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Ashdown-Hill|title= The Private Life of Edward IV|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Edward IV is currently a popular subject for biographers. All credit is therefore due to Dr Ashdown-Hill, one history of the foremost development of current Yorkist-era historians, for looking at the King from a fresh angle – that IT could fill books of his romantic involvementsseveral hundred pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445652455</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author= Pamela Sambrook|title= The Servants' Story: Managing a Great Country House|rating= 4Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that.5|genre= History|summary= With so many recent books on aristocratic families and their homes, one which looks at the lives of their servants is He has chosen to be welcomed. Written with tell us about the help of a vast archiveshort, this presents a vivid picture of those in service at Trenthambut explosive, the Staffordshire home history of the Leveson-Gower familyControl Data Company, CDC, the Dukes of Sutherlandfor whom he worked. It's a fascinating tale, at one stage said to be the richest non-royal family told in Britain. Its insights into the ups and downs a mixture of life below stairs, technological summary and the mini-family histories involved, make for an excellent readwry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654202</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen PorterJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Everyday Life in Tudor London: Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare & Anne BoleynFritz and Kurt|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=The Tudor period We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in England marked a transition in so many ways from 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the medieval period neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to a new era, the synagogue choir and so it is only right that somebody should at last have examined what effect that should have had a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on our capital cityat their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. After But this is the instability of time just before the Wars Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the RosesNazis out, a period invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of consolidation set Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and London was at last established as sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the seat of royalty US, while Fritz and governmenthis father are, as well as unknown initially to each other, packed off on the centre of cultural life same train to Buchenwald and commercial activitythe stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445645866</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon WillsJohn Henry Phillips|title= The Wreck of the SS LondonSearch

|summary= The sinking of the Titanic Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in 1912 was the ocean disaster against which all subsequent shipwrecks have come dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be comparedsomething there but not always confident what. Yet Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some forty years earlierspecific thing. This book is a case of the latter, as our author promises to locate the people topic of mid-Victorian Britain and overseas were horrified by another loss at sea which at the time had titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a similar impactwide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. In January 1866 SS London, Latching on to a large new luxury liner en route particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to AustraliaFrance, went down shortly after leaving Englandour author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, with around 250 people deadand that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, maybe more (the exact figure will never be known), and only three survivorsvast majority of whom perished.Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144565654X</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Van der KisteB09F4CTKJR|title=Queen Victoria and the European EmpiresFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|genre=HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary=It''Queen Victoria s the later stages of World War I and the European Empires'' United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a very readable history of Queen Victoria's relationships, both personal young American who has signed up and political with joined the royalty of France, Germany, Austria and Russia17 Aero Squadron. Many of these associations were based on family tiesThis company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, but - as in all families - not all connections brought joy in their wake. John Van der Kiste - an expert in all things Victorian - produces an elegant picture of the changing relationships between first to be attached to the eighteen thirties RAF and the early nineteen hundreds first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in a book which is deceptively slimactive combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but packed with fascinating information and insightsmajestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781555508</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Bard0578761718|title= Capital Punishment: London's Places The Inspiring History of Executiona Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating=4.5

|summary= The majority church of books on true crime and murder focus St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and foremost on specific incidentsthen survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. This concise volume takes But that wasn't the end of its story: after a different approachphenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported to Fulton, Missouri. There, in dealing with them according the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to where the executioner completed his taskWinston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445667363</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Brown1784385166|title=Operation BigThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: The Race to Stop Hitler's A-Bomb|rating=3.5|genre=Material History|summary=What, do you think, was more feared in 1941 and 1942 than the Nazi Party? Well, a Nazi Party with nuclear arms would be pretty high on the list. It seems the stuff of pure fantasy, but I'm not so sure. A lot of the people to be at the forefront of the nuclear physics of the age were German, and the first nuclear fission was on their soil. Two things seemed to be needed for nuclear arms – uranium, which they procured by capturing Czechoslovakia, the location of one its greatest source mines; and heavy water. That so nearly fell into Nazi hands when they invaded Norway, but what seems to have been the great majority of the world's supply had only just been smuggled out. [[Fatherland by Robert Harris|Some fiction]] takes great strides to suggest in a fantasy way that if Hitler hadn't concentrated on exterminating Jews, he would have had the energy to win the war – and it must only be a short step to see his imperial expansionism as having an ulterior motive in nuclear materiel. But make no mistake, this is not fiction – these are the pure facts behind the issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664674</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGermany|author=Nick Bunker|title=An Empire on the EdgeRoger Moorhouse

|summary=The history that we are taught What is centred on events. Often we know the dates, first image that comes to mind when you think of the central characters and the outcome. We seldom identify and study 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 causes. Third Reich'An Empire on the Edge' is history writ large and looks at the chain of events leading to the Boston Tea Party, and subsequent American War of Independences fascist regime in all its iniquity. What emerges is a catalogue of human failings But some objects and frailties images from that shaped the destiny of America and Britain in the eighteenth centurytime may be less familiar to you. Many of the failings were avoidable but In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the accumulation and chain reaction they caused had a catastrophic effect on thousands period of lives and has shaped the character Third Reich through one hundred of two nations ever sinceits material artefacts. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552736</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Tales of Loving Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and LeavingEdward Gauvin (translator)|authortitle=Gaby WeinerTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|genre=BiographyGraphic Novels|summary=In I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn''Tales t know of the weeks of Loving protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and Leaving'', author Gaby Weiner tells the story birth of three of her family members: her grandmotherthe Tank Man image, Amalia Moszkowicz Dinger; her motherI didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, Steffi Dinger; and her father, Uszer FrochtI didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524635081</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Lewis0648684806|title=Henry IIIClara Colby: The Son of Magna CartaInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating=4.5

|summary= For a monarch whose reign over England The path of fiftyClara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the time she was just three-six 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 doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of school. She was unequalled until the nineteenth centuryonly child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, Henry III remains curiously littleher family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-known. Nobody could claim that he west of the United States and life was a particularly outstanding or successful rulerhard, but as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the fact that he held his throne family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for so fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long in an unstable age after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was no mean achievement in itselfa rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445653575</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy Licence1783784350|title=Catherine of AragonThis Golden Fleece: An Intimate Life of Henry VIIIA Journey Through Britain's True WifeKnitted History|author=Esther Rutter

|genre=BiographyHistory|summary= Catherine It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of Aragonthe British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the first story of Henry VIIIwool's six wives history and Queens, was arguably how it had made and changed the most unhappy figure during the Tudor era who did not meet her end landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the scaffold or at the stake. The cliché farm''tragic love story- and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother' must be a fitting one s friend. This was in her caseblood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656701</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jem Duducu1789017977|title=The American Presidents in 100 FactsRonnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams

|summary=At a time when Ronnie Williams was the US Presidential election is fielding at least one candidate you'd cross the road to avoid son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and IEthel Wall. There'm s some doubt as to whether or not saying which one) itthey were ever married or even Harry's useful birthdate: he claimed to look back over the forty four presidents who have gone before them. It's surprising how many of them have been lawyersborn in 1863, soldiers but he was already many years older than Ethel and career politicians, but there he might well have also been school teachers, journalists, Hollywood actors, professors, postmasters and even shaved a peanut farmerfew years off his age. Gone are For a while the early days when you could almost fall into family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the presidency accidentally 1929 Depression and five- now you year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need a massive war chest if you're to get to election daybe well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656507</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Norton1980891117|title= The Lives G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of Tudor WomenGeorge Engleheart|author=John Webley

|genre=HistoryArt|summary= After George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a series career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. He was also one of individual biographies on the major Tudor womenmost prolific, mostly royalpainting nearly 5, this book brings a new dimension in touching on the lives 000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of individuals from all walks them being of lifeKing George III). However it is much more than a collection Throughout most of lives. While that time he carefully recorded the Queens and princesses naturally dominate some names of each of the chaptershis clients, it looks beyond the surface and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to devote attention to serving maids, businesswomen, activists and martyrs, as well as focus on various aspects of life for women and girls in Tudor Englandhis fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081752</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Matthews1789016304|title=Robin HoodWar and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=4.5

|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 Outlaw Diary of Sherwood Forest has been part of national mythology ever since Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the twelfth century. Did Mr Hood really existwar years, or is he but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a figment of popular imagination country with liberal values who refuses were resistant to go quietly? If historians and researchers over German occupation. Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the ages are to city were convinced that they would soon be believedpushed back, that the truth seems Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to lie somewhere escalate in betweenthe way that it did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia Ginzburg1908745819|title=Notes from the BlockadeSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie

|genre=Autobiography History|summary=With the scenes from war torn Syria brought to our screens every nightSometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''Notes from the blockadethis one has your name on it' is a timely book. It is the remarkable story of Lydia Ginzburg's survival during the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War 2. With beautiful prose full of Russian melancholy and pragmatismMostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it details daily life in the besieged city. I have to confess turns out that I found this to be one of we didn't like the most moving books that it has ever been my pleasure to readbook. Pleasure may be That's a strange choice of words rare experience. People who are sensitive to describe hearing a book recounting horrifying eventscalling your name, but rarely get it came from wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the lyrical quality author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of the writingherself.'' Older. Less tethered. GinzburgThat's prose is simply beautifulnot a bad description of where I am. Her descriptions Add to that my love of the minutiae natural world, of those aspects of everyday life, as it descends into the abysspoetic and lyrical that are about style not form, are the and substance most human I have encounteredof all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It is this that leaves would have found its mark long after the final page is turnedway to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583380</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholas Stargardt0857058320|title=The German WarLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating=54

|summary=History can be ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a dry subject when it focusses only on events and the key people that shaped them. However, when it uses those events as the backdrop journey to uncover the lives of ordinary people it truly comes to author's lost ancestor's lifeand death. ‘The German War' Cercas is searching for the story of meaning behind his great uncle's death in the second world war through the eyes of a diverse group of GermansSpanish Civil War. It tells their storiesManuel Mena, with Cercas' great candour and humanityuncle, as it follows is the build up to figure who looms large over the war, the war itself and its aftermathbook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Using detailed research, interviews and anecdotal evidence, Nicholas Stargardt has created a narrative that is both a historical record and compellingCercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. Its scope The question at the centre of this book is massive but whether it is a tremendous achievement. Books from the allies' perspective are many and varied; as a result, this can lead possible for his great uncle to be a distortion of hero whilst having fought for the historical record. This work addresses this imbalancewrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953987X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teresa Cole0008294011|title= How to Lose a Country: The Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror's Subjugation of England7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran

|summary=Long regarded as the most pivotal date A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in English years to come would be discussed by A level history, not least students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to generations . I think now that I do know. We are in danger of us familiar with the 1930s Sellar losing democracy and Yeatman spoof history whilst it'1066 And All Thats a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the year of the Norman Conquest has long been seen 'benevolent dictator' is as a relatively isolated event rare as well as the start of a new era for our island story. The full picture was inevitably more complexhen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445649225</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= James Sharpe1788037812|title= A Fiery and Furious PeopleThe Fraternity of the Estranged: A History of Violence The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England|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 wife1891-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>}}{{newreview1908|author=Jan Bondeson|title= Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian AncestorsBrian Anderson|rating=45

|summary= The Victorians, not surprisinglyOriginally passed in 1885, the law that had their own tabloid press. The most successful title of this nature was the 'Illustrated Police News', made homosexual relations a weekly journal first published crime remained in 1864 and lasting seventy-four place for 82 years. Not to be confused with the more upmarket 'Illustrated London News'But during this time, its main stockrestrictions on same-in-trade was weirdsex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, far-fetched three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and not always entirely genuine stories from Victorian lifeJohn Addington Symonds, generally in Britain but sometimes in Europe as wellas the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. This book is based Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on a recently-discovered archive of the paper. Prepare to be amazedEuropean Continent, enthralledbut barely talked about in the UK, sometimes horrified so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and occasionally disbelievingbeginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445658852</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anna Bikont1910593508|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>}}{{newreviewApollo|author= Susan Higginbotham|title= Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary= The fate 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 upheavalMatt Fitch, her life was overshadowed by the executions of several of her family – Chris Baker and ultimately leading to her own, largely it seems, for the 'crime' of being who she was.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445635941</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peter Doggett|title= Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of PopMike Collins

|genre=EntertainmentHistory|summary= For many of us, it must be difficult to imagine This incredible graphic novel is a life without recorded music. Millions of us must have grown up with, even love letter tothe Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a very varied soundtrack consisting story we know well and because of one genre after another. In this book, Peter Doggett takes the authors take a marvellous broad sweep through few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the history of popular music from the end of blanks. These shortcuts are the nineteenth century only downside to the present day, from wax cylinders to streaming servicesbook. A rather maudlin ditty If you'After The Ball', by Charles Kve ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. Harris, This is regarded a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as the first modern popular song (well, it was modern in 1891) – the first of millionslong and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184792218X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786331047|title=The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family

|summary= Few cities have experienced a year more dramatic than Petrograd in 1917. The city, now known as St Petersburg, went through two revolutions: basic facts about the first a popular uprising that brought down the Romanov dynastydeaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, the second a Bolshevik coup that led to the formation some of the Soviet Union. At which were deliberately obscured at the timefor various reasons, Petrograd was home to a large expatriate community, including diplomats, journalists, and businessmenhave long since been established. Many kept diaries or wrote letters home, vividly describing For the chaos unfolding at last few months of their doorstep. In Caught lives in Russia the Revolution, Helen Rappaport draws on this material to give a gripping first-hand account of the Russian Revolution, as told by those who lived through it.|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 swearingformer Tsar and Tsarina, their children and few remaining servants were held in Biblical termsincreasingly squalid, to swearing, also usually in Biblical terms but with rather more emphasis on the act, rather than the deityhumiliating captivity. This book takes the reader on a journey To prevent them from the Old Testament, when swearing your allegiance to the one true God was a prerequisite for staying alivebeing rescued, to the Middle Ages where swearing on the same God was punishable by rather grisly death. That takes care of the Holy, now onto the part you are really interested in, July 1918 the Sh*t. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>019049168X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenifer Roberts|title=The Beauty of Her Age: A Tale of Sex, Scandal revolutionary regime had them all shot and Money in Victorian England|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary= The name of Yolande Stephens (nee Duvernay) is not that well-known in the annals of Victorian England, but behind it lies an enthralling rags-bayoneted to-riches saga. How did a young girl born into poverty in Paris become one of the most celebrated ballerinas of her time in England, and after that one of the richest women death in the country, with a fortune on her death circumstances which rivalled that of Queen Victoria?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445653206</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gordon Stevens|title=The Originals: The Secret History of the Birth of the SAS|rating=5|genre=History|summary= The SAS is a regiment shrouded in secrecy. Since its spectacular rise to fame during the Iranian Embassy siege in 1978, it has become a part of myth and folklore. The paradox 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 once the regiments operations and activities. Others are pure fantasynews was confirmed beyond all doubt, which add little, other than further the mystique of a regiment that lives horrified their relatives in the shadows. ''The Originals'' provides a fresh perspective. It tells the story of the birth of the SAS, by the people who were there. In a series of long forgotten interviews, the regiment is brought to life with fresh insight and wonderful anecdotesEurope. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091901820</amazonuk>