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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Ashdown-Hill1785633457|title= The Wars Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of the RosesEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryTravel|summary= During my schooldays, I always found Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the Wars idea of exploring the Roses the most fascinating period edges of English historyEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In those days we were taught that the battles began in 1455 fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and ended in 1485. Ashdown-Hill is one of several modern historians whose study of the subject extends these boundarieshis wife, and in this volume he starts with the reign of Richard IIJoan, ending late in the Elizabethan era.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660350</amazonuk>shouldn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles DrazinB09BLBP3P8|title= Mapping the PastNeville Chamberlain's War: A Search for Five Brothers at the Edge of EmpireHow Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=''Mapping Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the Past'' is at once a personal quest into scrubbing from the author's family history, and an account of some popular imagination of the interesting, perhaps even amazing things the Royal Engineers have achieved over the past couple early days of centuries. Drazin is descended World War II from a generation of Engineers; five brothers who all served in the Army1939-40, mostly known as surveyors mapping the far flung parts of the Empire''Phoney War''. This was despite them being both Irish and Catholic. He uncovers their pastsWe remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, the many things they undertook and how it affected them Churchill coming in to save the endday. It's a story that's uplifting Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and extremely sadyet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was of vital significance in how the First World War and the Easter Rising in 1916 seem to mark a true watershed for his familywar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099468271</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lyndal Roper3756228711|title= Martin LutherCDC:Renegade and ProphetThe happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating= 54|genre= History|summary= Exactly five centuries ago in October 2017, Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses against ''The history of the sale development of indulgences to the door IT could fill books of the All Saintsseveral hundred pages.'' Church in Wittenberg Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. The ensuing maelstrom ripped He has chosen to tell us about the Christian church asunder and changed the course short, but explosive, history of history. But how was a provincial professor in a cassock able to set the Reformation in motionControl Data Company, despite papal and imperial authority being ranged against him? In a biography which was ten years in the makingCDC, Lyndal Roper strips away mythology to illuminate the facts underneath (for starters, it is highly unlikely that Luther actually nailed the ninety-five theses to the door)whom he worked. She provides It's a thoughtful analysis of the forces which drove the evangelical preacher and convincingly explains his contradictions – whyfascinating tale, after decades of monastic observance did he marry a nun and develop told in a love mixture of German beer technological summary and wine? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703443</amazonuk>wry anecdote.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= A T WilliamsJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title= A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War IIFritz and Kurt|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryConfident Readers|summary= In ''A Passing Fury,'' we follow an Orwell Prize-winning law academic's journey through Germany as he pursues We start with the legal history pair of the trials waged by the Britishbrothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to some extent other Allied forces, against do – kicking things around the newly-fallen Nazi regime. This is a deeply personal accountempty market place, that reads very much like a travelogue in places. Williams is affected at every turn by harrowingly familiar accounts of life in helping the concentration camp systemneighbours, such as those of being dutiful when it comes to the esteemed Italian writer synagogue choir and academic Primo Levi, who features throughout the bookat a vocational school. More striking Kurt has to make sure the reader, however, lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the often-forgotten atrocities Williams describes that failed to make a mark on our collective memory, such Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as the Cap Arcona tragedy, in which some 7,000 concentration camp internees were killed in a British air raidlight switch. Horrors such as these, which largely go unremembered, raise many questions, chief among them, was justice served? Williams pursues answers to But this question throughout his investigation, which is the time just shy of 500 pages long.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593262</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David Grann|title= Killers of before the Flower Moon|rating= 5|genre= True Crime|summary=Killers Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of the Flower Moon tells the story of the Osage tribe, forced having a national vote to settle in keep the rockyNazis out, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma invite them in what would become Osage Countywith open arms. In an unexpected turn of fortune ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, prospectors struck oil, instantly catapulting as did all the Osage into unimaginable wealth and fortune making them some round-ups of the richest people Jews. These in their turn leave the world. Then members of the tribe start to die, slowly younger Kurt at first of apparently natural causes then in increasingly violent ways. Investigation into the matter stalls home with his mother and is beset by incompetence and a general lack sisters anxious to hear word of interest in an evacuation to Britain or the fate of the Osage until the FBI becomes involved US, while Fritz and draws together a team of battle scarredhis father are, unknown initially to each other, unorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom White. As pressure packed off on White increases, from both the FBI same train to Buchenwald and the increasingly angry Osage, stone quarry there. And us wondering how the race to find titular event for the truth becomes increasingly difficult, with more twists and double crosses than any murder mystery.adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857209027</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom FeilingJohn Henry Phillips|title=The Island that DisappearedSearch

|summary= Archaeology cannot be child'The Island that Disappeareds play, when you' tells re scraping in the history dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of thelatter, largely now forgotten, island as our author promises to locate the topic of Providence in the Caribbeantitular search. It And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a fascinating and compelling account of what wide one, the target might have been but ultimately is the story of greednot exist any more – oh, ambition and human natureit's underwater, when he cannot dive. In 1630 Latching on board to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the Seaflowerheroic old man's visit back to France, a sister ship our author has promised to find the Mayflowerlanding craft that delivered him to Normandy, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a small group of English puritans sailed memorial to everyone else aboard, the island vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises to establish a new colony. They were convinced someone in their belief that the British Empire would rise in the Central America and not in New Englandnineties?|isbn=1472146182}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4. The hopes that they carried was soon destroyed by failing crops, quarrels and rebellions and many turned to piracy and 5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's the plundering later stages of Spanish treasure ships. Within ten years, the Spanish retaliated World War I and invaded the island, wiping United States has just entered the colony outconflict. Providence became Petrol Petronus is a footnote of history until it young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was resettled over a hundred years later. The book tells the island's story from its early puritan beginnings first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the present RAF and through its telling it provides a fascinating microcosm of the world we live first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in todayactive combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911184040</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Twigs Way0578761718|title=Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series)The Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleHistory|summary=Allotments came about originally The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the enclosure original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of landLondon in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, primarily for sheep pasturewhen it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. Fearing But that wasn't the enclosures would leave peasants unable to feed themselves, Elizabeth I issued an act requiring all new cottages to have four acres end of groundits story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, something which has been honoured more by history than by Elizabeththe stones from the church's contemporarieswalls were transported to Fulton, Missouri. It There, in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was the first in rebuilt and today serves as a long line of legislation with that aim in mind - which largely failed memorial to achieve their aimsWinston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665700</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Peter Rex1784385166|title= HaroldThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: The King Who Fell at HastingsA Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating= 4.5

|summary= Harold What is in the unenviable position for being remembered as the monarch who was defeated and killed in first image that comes to mind when you think of the Norman conquest, and almost nothing else. He does not even merit Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a passing mention in concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the renowned 1930s spoof English history, Third Reich'1066 s fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and all That'images from that time may be less familiar to you. In this short volume, which no doubt Roger Moorhouse has him in their category attempted to illustrate the period of 'Unmemorable Kings'. This book is thus inevitably a history rather than a biography the Third Reich through one hundred of someone about whom undisputed facts are rather lackingits material artefacts. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>144565721X</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark Zuehlke Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Claude St AubinEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=The Loxleys and ConfederationTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating=34.5

|summary=There is a huge hole in my history knowledge where North America is concerned. Slowly, from an opening of sheer ignorance, having I never studied it whatsoever at school, I've got a small grip on things like the Civil War, really followed the foundations events of the USA and a few other things. But that means nothing as far as this book is concerned, for that huge hole is Canada. No, I didn't have an inkling about how Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was trying to unify, just as the American Civil War was playing out – someone in full pelt just across the bordersecond half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know what was there before Canada, if you see what I mean. The story does have some things in common with that of their southern neighbours – European occupancy being slowly turned into a list the weeks of states as we know them now, slowly spreading into protests and hunger strikes from the heart of students before the continent with massacre and the help birth of the railways etc; native Tank Man image, I didn'Indians' being 'in the way'; past trading agreements to either maintain or try to improve on; and so on – but of course it also had the British vs French issue. But did you t know how an American President getting shot at the theatre area had long been a bearing venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on the story? either side. Or This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the Irish? Like I said, a huge hole…whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992150892</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lynn Knight0648684806|title= Clara Colby: The Button BoxInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating= 4|genre= HistoryBiography|summary= Buttons are The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the underdogs of USA. At the clothing world: dismissed as functional elements time she was just three-years-old but because of clothingsome childhood ailment, falling into the same dustbin category she wasn't allowed to sail with zips her parents and shoe lacesthree brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, they tend to be seen as necessary for keeping clothes who doted onher and saw that she received a good education, rather than contributors to styleboth in and out of school. But Lynn Knight is set to prove that She was the only child in the opposite is truehousehold and her childhood was glorious. We think nothing By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of lacing discussions about clothing the United States and feminism with headscarveslife was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, bikinishad ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and underweight models – died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and buttons deserve Wisconsin was a place on the pedestal of gender discussion, toorude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593092</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Fraser1783784350|title= The Prince Who Would Be KingThis Golden Fleece: The Life and Death of Henry StuartA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography History|summary= Henry StuartIt was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, eldest child of King James VI writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and I, even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was not going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the only eldest son length and breadth of a monarch who did not live long enough to succeed to the throne. The list also included Arthur (son British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of Henry VII) wool's history and Albert Victor (Edward VII)how it had made and changed the landscape. Of She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the threefarm'' - and learned to spin, Henry undoubtedly showed the most promiseknit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007548087</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Flynn1789017977|title= Good As YouRonnie and Hilda's Romance: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years of Gay BritainTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating= 54|genre= History |summary=The last 30 years have seen a tidal wave Ronnie Williams was the son of change sweep the country with regards to how gay people are perceived Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and acceptedEthel Wall. In 1984, the pulsing electronic beats of There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry'Smalltown Boy'' became an anthem s birthdate: he claimed to unite Gay Menhave been born in 1863, but just he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a month later, few years off his age. For a virus called HIV would be identified, spreading a climate of panic and fear across while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the nation, 1929 Depression and marginalising five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a community who were already ostracisedvery different lifestyle. 30 years later though, the long road One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to gay equality be well-turned-out and this would reach a climax stay with the legalistion of gay marriage. Journalist Paul Flynn charts this remarkable journey via the cultural milestones that affected this change - with interviews with such protagonists as Kylie, Russell T Davies, Will Young, Holly Johnson and Lord Chris Smithhim throughout his life. This is He joined the story of Britain's brothers, sons, cousins, fathers and husbandsarmy at eighteen in 1942. Of public outrage and personal loss, the (not always legal) highs and desperate lows, and the final collective victory as Gay Men were finally recognised to be as Good As You. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032925</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Miles Russell1980891117|title= Arthur and G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the Kings life of Britain: The Historical Truth Behind the MythsGeorge Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryArt|summary= As the author George Engleheart was one of the Historia Regum Britanniae (History leading portrait miniaturists of the Kings of Britain)Georgian London, written in 1136, Geoffrey of Monmouth is commonly recognized as one of with a career lasting from the first British historians. His book told – or is supposed 1770s to have told - the story Regency era. He was also one of the British monarchy during the Dark Agesmost prolific, from the arrival of the Trojan Brutuspainting nearly 5, grandson 000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of Aeneas, up to the seventh century AD when the Anglo-Saxons had taken control them being of BritainKing George III). Being virtually the only work Throughout most of its kind at the that time, it proved very influential, and became well-known throughout western Europe as one of the great works of medieval literature as he carefully recorded the first retelling names of the story each of King Arthurhis clients, Lear and Cymbeline. Shakespeare was forever in subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his debt with regard to the two latterfee book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662744</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mark Aylwin Thomas1789016304|title= Blades War and Love: A family's testament of Grassanguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyHistory|summary= Any book 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 has me in tears at the end has been worth my timeher own family's stories were equally fascinating. Any book that has me hoping it will end differently to A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the way I know it must is worth city during the readingwar years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Any book Most people believed that convinces me the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that maybe there is still hope in the world – Germans might reach the city were convinced that for all the mistakes made thus far, still being made right now, there is a common humanity which ultimately, eventuallythey would soon be pushed back, must do some good – that is worth the writing and Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the reading and way that it did, but initial protests melted away as the time. Blades of Grass is one such bookorganisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a forgotten story, an unknown story to most people. It is one that should be told – and reflected uponvast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676969</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrew Cook1908745819|title= The Murder of the RomanovsSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The fate of Tsar Nicholas II of RussiaSometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, his wife Alexandra and childrenor not, fuelled no end of rumourbut rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, misinformation and conspiracy theories for many yearsrarely get it wrong. In this case, even though the truth I was known not long after the eventtold why. In The blurb speaks of the last few yearsauthor considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the advance of forensic sciencenatural world, DNA testing and the precise location of the bodies have allowed for confirmation those aspects of the exact truth poetic and a dismissal lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of claims by a noted so-called surviving Grand Duchessall, about connection. Even soOf course, as Andrew Cook notes, straight after the deaths of the imperial family 'there this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would begin a ninety-year battle between science and superstition which is not over yet'have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666278</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Bakewell0857058320|title= At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Apricot CocktailsAnne McLean (translator)

|genre= Politics and SocietyHistory|summary= You know that old saying about judging books by their cover? Ignore it! I have found that by judging ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a book by its cover journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and getting it completely wrong death. Cercas is a searching for the meaning behind his great way to find yourself committed to reading a book that youuncle'd never have picked s death in a million years and yetthe Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, somehowCercas' great uncle, being amazingly glad you didis the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554887</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helen Hollick0008294011|title= PiratesHow to Lose a Country: Truth and TaleThe 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=The eighteenth century lived A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in terror of years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the tramps of question ''Discuss the seas – piratesfactors which led to. Pirates have fascinated people ever since. It .'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a harsh life for those who went good or bad thing that we didn'on the accountt know what all ', constantly overshadowed by the threat of death – through violence, illness, shipwreck, or the hangmanthis's noosewas leading to. The lure of gold, the excitement of the chase and the freedom I think now that life aboard a pirate ship offered were judged by some to be worth the riskI do know. Helen Hollick explores both the fiction and fact of the Golden Age We are in danger of piracy, losing democracy and there are some surprises in store for those who whilst it's a flawed system I can't think they know their Barbary Corsair from their boucanier. Everyone has heard of Captain Morgana better one, but who recognises particularly as the name of the aristocratic Frenchman Daniel Montbars? He killed so many Spaniards he was known as 'The Exterminatorbenevolent dictator'. The fictional world of pirates, represented in novels and movies, is different from realityas rare as hen's teeth. What draws readers and viewers to these notorious hyenas of the high seas? What are the facts behind the fantasy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445652153</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Timothy Venning1788037812|title= Kingmakers: How Power in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontier|rating= 3.5|genre= History|summary= Between the Norman conquest and the Tudor period, Britain often seemed to be on the verge of civil war. The Anglo-Welsh borders were a perpetual source Fraternity of trouble, kept at bay only by the Marcher lords appointed by the King of Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England to guard the Welsh Marches.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445659409</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nigel Linge and Andy Sutton|title= The British Phonebox|rating= 4.5|genre= History |summary= The mobile phone must be one of the most used, must1891-have accessories of the modern age, the one device you cannot escape from in public. Some of us with (relatively) long memories must look back on the age when the bright red phonebox reigned supreme as a long time ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663082</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1908|author=Martin Wall|title=Warriors and Kings: The 1500-Year Battle for Celtic BritainBrian Anderson|rating= 4.5

|summary= For several centuriesOriginally passed in 1885, much of the ancient law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and medieval history 1908, three books on the nature of Britain was one forged in war homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the Celtic peoples took a stand against invasion heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and oppression. First it studying homosexuality was common on the RomansEuropean Continent, then but barely talked about in the SaxonsUK, Vikings and Normansso the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, who threatened the unyielding and insular people. This book examines how several tenacious and heroic figures led beginning the Britons struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the Welsh against often overwhelming oddsmilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445658437</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewitt1910593508|title=JosephApollo|author=Matt Fitch, 1917Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=3.5

|summary=During This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the autumn 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 1915 Edward Stanleythis, the Earl of Derby and Director General of military recruitment inaugurated authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the Derby Schemeblanks. Men of fighting age would be encouraged by door-to-door canvassers These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you'attest' that they would sign up for military service at ve ever read a comic book adaptation of a recruitment office within 48 hours. They would then film you will be categories according to marital status familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and be called up, with 14 days' notice, in an order in line with their household responsibilitiesthat dialogue has been trimmed. The idea was This is a sound one: married men with children only being called on if absolutely necessary. Lancastrian Joseph Blackburn chose to attest but then for him graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and many others, unforeseen results ensuedstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785898973</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Wright1786331047|title=A British Lion in ZululandThe Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport

|summary= During the reign of Queen Victoria, southern Africa was a land of opportunity. Fame and fortune was to be found for any brave soul willing to suffer the hardships and dangers the lands offered. For the government of Britain it was also the source of major headaches. The balance between abundant wealth and a native population that would not accept colonial rule created constant conflict. 'A British Lion in Zululand' is basic facts about the story deaths of the man, widely regarded, as the person who drew these conflicts with the Zulu tribe to a conclusion. Field Marshall Garnet Joseph Wolseley was a heroic Nicholas and larger than life figure in Victorian Britain; howeverAlexandra, even today his role in shaping the future some of a continent is controversial. With which were deliberately obscured at the aid of extensive research from a number of new sourcestime for various reasons, William Wright has defined the man and brought fresh insight to a neglected area of British colonial historyhave long since been established. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665484</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Xu Hongci and Erling Hoh (Translator)|title= No Wall Too High|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= It was one of For the greatest prison breaks last few months of all time, during one of the worst totalitarian tragedies of the 20th Century. Xu Hongci was an ordinary medical student when he was incarcerated under Mao's regime and forced to spend years of his youth their lives in some of China's most brutal labour camps. Three times he tried to escape. And three times he failed. But, determined, he eventually broke free, travelling the length of China, across Russia the Gobi desert, and into Mongolia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044960</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steven Burgauer|title=The Night of The Eleventh Sun|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The word 'Neanderthal' has become equated with people deemed to have a backward attitude former Tsar and outlook. But what do we know of the original Neanderthals from over 200Tsarina,000 years ago? Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds the knowledge of anthropologists, archaeologists and historians with the story of Strong Arms, his family and their struggle to survive in a very effective, children 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 the least secret of all the secret ops that went on during World 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 few remaining servants were held in mystery. With most of the participants either departed or at least in the departure loungeincreasingly squalid, the more recollections we can still gather the better. What remained secret far longer however, is the work of the telegraphers that served Station X: those posted to the Y-stationshumiliating captivity. There are few of them left to tell their tales, so I applaud those who finally saw fit (a) to release To prevent them from their life-long bonds of secrecy and (b) encourage them to write it downbeing rescued, tell us what it was really like.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409086</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=G A Jones|title=The Cruise of Naromis: August in July 1918 the Baltic 1939|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=There's brave, revolutionary regime had them all shot and there is brave. I may well have been born in a coastal county but certainly would baulk at the idea of setting out bayoneted to sea with four colleagues death in a 37'-long boat. Boats to me are like planes – the bigger the bettercircumstances which, and once the safer I feel as a result. But luckily for the purpose of this book, George Jones news was born with a much different pair of sea-legs to mineconfirmed beyond all doubt, 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 horrified their relatives 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 of the foremost of current Yorkist-era historians, for looking at the King from a fresh angle – that of his romantic involvementsEurope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445652455</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author= Pamela Sambrook|title= The Servants' Story: Managing a Great Country House|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= With so many recent books Move on aristocratic families and their homes, one which looks at the lives of their servants is to be welcomed. Written with the help of a vast archive, this presents a vivid picture of those in service at Trentham, the Staffordshire home of the Leveson-Gower family, the Dukes of Sutherland, at one stage said to be the richest non-royal family in Britain. Its insights into the ups and downs of life below stairs, and the mini-family histories involved, make for an excellent read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654202</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen Porter|title=Everyday Life in Tudor London: Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare & Anne Boleyn|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=The Tudor period in England marked a transition in so many ways from the medieval period to a new era, and so it is only right that somebody should at last have examined what effect that should have had on our capital city. After the instability of the Wars of the Roses, a period of consolidation set in and London was at last established as the seat of royalty and government, as well as the centre of cultural life [[Newest Home and commercial activity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445645866</amazonuk>}}Family Reviews]]