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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Twigs Way1785633457|title=Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series)|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th centuryCharging Around: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to Exploring the country in those days. Men had their coffee houses, but they were not places where women could or would be seen. Tea was introduced to Edges of England in the 17th century but it was not until 1784 that the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea became the drink of choice for the nation. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardens.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445670011</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewElectric Car|author= Nathen Amin|title=The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= The family name of Beaufort played a major part in British history during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It therefore seems remarkable that little has been written about them until the appearance of this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rory Stewart|title= The Marches|rating= 5|genre= Travel|summary= The Observer quote on the front of the paperback edition of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhaps, but to call it travel writing is to totally under-sell it. This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has the background to do this: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both the Army and the Foreign Office, and then (to his father's, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Oh, and he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581892</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Josh Dean|title=The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in HistoryClive Wilkinson

|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=In February 1968 the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left the port Clive Wilkinson has a history of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula travelling by unconventional means with a crew of 98 submarinerspreference for slow travel. The captain and executive officers were experienced: As he neared his eightieth birthday the only factor giving cause for concern was that idea of exploring the crew had only recently returned to base and were expecting a longer break and were only back at sea because two sister ships had experienced mechanical problems and were unfit for combat controls. The Division Commander complained that the decision edges of England in an electric car was cruel and potentially recklessnot totally outrageous. He would In fact, it should be proved right - but not publicly - as K-129 went down with all hands in March 1968. It was a while before the sSoviet navy realised that it had lost one of its submarines pleasant holiday for Clive and despite an extensive search they couldnhis wife, Joan, shouldn't find it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445674742</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip ParkerB09BLBP3P8|title=50 Things You Should Know About the VikingsNeville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager

|summary=Over the half century Received wisdom and more that I've been preparing meals on a regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something you did, simplified narrative often lead to an obsession akin to a religionmisconceptions about history. My first kitchen had nothing in One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the way early days of luxury World War II from 1939- it was there to make meals 40, known as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not the ''quitePhoney War'' state of the art. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, but it's equipped and Churchill coming in to a high standard save the day. Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and is a pleasure to work yet, as Frederic Seager argues in. But what this book, it was of all vital significance in how the equipment which went before, which paved the way to what we have now? Emma Kay is going to give you a quick trip through the historywar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445657511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martyn Beardsley3756228711|title= Waterloo Voices 1815CDC: The Battle at First Hand|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle of Waterloo, fought on happy years with a midsummer day on a muddy field in Belgium, brought an end to two decades of war in Europe. As one of the pivotal events of the nineteenth century, it has inevitably been the focus of many accounts over the last two hundred years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewspectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Sarah Rutherford|title=Landscape GardensHans Bodmer

|genre=ArtHistory|summary=My first experience of a ''big'' garden was Versailles as a teenager and whilst I was impressed, I didn't really like it. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by The history of the flatness development of it all. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardens. It would be many years before I revised my opinion. On a trip to Harewood House it was too hot a day to be corralled into the house, so I wandered the gardens and found they were delightful. I felt uplifted. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me the opportunity to walk the grounds for over an hour. I was completely won over and a devotee IT could fill books of Lancelot 'Capability' Brownseveral hundred pages. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him in context.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445669935</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author= Stuart Maconie|title= Long Road From Jarrow|rating= 5|genre= Travel |summary= I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about a year ago and the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's columnthat. His down-He has chosen to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Let's be honesttell us about the short, thoughbut explosive, I picked this one up because history of someone elsethe Control Data Company, CDC, for whom he worked. It's reviewa fascinating tale, told in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know of) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''a whole matrix mixture of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at leasttechnological summary and wry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vicky HaywardJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookFritz and Kurt

|genre=CookeryConfident Readers|summary=In 1745 a Spanish friary cookWe start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, Juan Altamirasand their muckers, published doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the first edition of his ''New Art of Cookeryempty market place, Drawn From helping the School of Economic Experience''. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meatneighbours, poultry, game, salted being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and fresh fish, vegetables and dessertsat a vocational school. The style was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimed, not at those who could afford Kurt has to cook make sure the lamps are turned on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for large numbersusing anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. Whilst But this is the ingredients were - for time just before the most part - modestly priced there Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a stress on national vote to keep the careful combination of flavours and aromasNazis out, invite them in with open arms. Spices are used conservatively and ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the bluntness round-ups of some Moorish cooking is eschewed Jews. These in favour their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of something much more subtle an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and we see influences from Altamiras' own regionhis father are, Aragonunknown initially to each other, packed off on the Iberian court same train to Buchenwald and the New Worldstone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1442279419</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Susan Duxbury-NeumannJohn Henry Phillips|title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great BritainThe Search|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes 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 fair bit harder when you set out to find some time specific thing. This book is a case of the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic of the titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to provide a full answerparticular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and this slim but useful volume does so very wellthat he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445664860</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gillian TindallB09F4CTKJR|title= The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route Flights for an Old London JourneyFreedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary=This book traces It's the course later stages of historical journeys across World War I and the city in time United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and space, examining how joined the areas above 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the new Crossrail routefirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the largest building project currently under construction in Europe offering high speed links across London, have changed over first to be attached to the centuries, with destruction RAF and renewal being a constantly recurring process the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in the city's historyactive combat. It is a fascinatingBut before that can happen, compellingly readable exploration through Petrol has to master flying the historical highways and byways of the metropolisnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587793</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Trigg0578761718|title=Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS: The Final Testament Inspiring History of the Oostfrontersa Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating=34.5

|summary=In The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the week I write thisCity of London from at least 1181, Trump has come under fire for not condemning fascistic behaviour when it was first mentioned in America from some Neo-Nazisrecords. Sadly, It strikes me that the ''Neo-'' is a pointless dignification – yes, they cannot be deemed to follow Hitler precisely as he's long dead and burnt, so they're kind original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of new, but common sense obliges me to just call them NazisLondon in 1666. Their excuse is they feel America has been invaded It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the enemy – but what if you were indeed under occupation? Could you see yourself working fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the forces Blitz. But that had indeed invaded you? The author begins by pointing out that several countries were invaded by wasn't the Nazisend of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, and they have different feelings about the people who worked against stones from the commonly-held nationalistic aimchurch's walls were transported to Fulton, Missouri. France hates her collaboratorsThere, but just north in the grounds of Westminster College, the border things are different – church was rebuilt and the picture is a lot more muddy today serves as a resultmemorial to Winston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gerard Cheshire1784385166|title= The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Victorian PostageNazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=Although we What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of postage and the sending Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of letters as a specifically Victorian innovation, these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Third Reich's fascist regime in all its roots go far deeper than iniquity. But some objects and images from thattime may be less familiar to you. This bookIn this short volume, which surveys a much broader time frame than Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the period of the title might suggest, presents us with an admirably concise picture Third Reich through one hundred of its development up to its full fruition in the mid-nineteenth centurymaterial artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664372</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S Morris Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and N GrueningerEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIIITiananmen 1989: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queensOur Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryGraphic Novels|summary= It I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was inevitable that each playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the six wives weeks of Henry VIII would have left their mark in some way on protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the places they lived area had long been a venue for political protest, and visitedI didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This book straddles several categories; history, gazetteer or guide book, and collection is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of potted biographiesprotests back in 1989. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144567114X</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Terry Breverton0648684806|title= Owen TudorClara Colby: Founding Father of the Tudor DynastyThe International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Owen Tudor The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was one probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of those shadowy yet very important characters 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 the only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in medieval historythe mid-west of the United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. While we may Clara would only know little about himher mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, or at least did seven surviving children and died in childbirth not until this biography appeared, his historical importance can hardly be overestimatedlong after Clara arrived. Without him As the eldest girl, there a heavy burden would have been no Tudor dynastyfall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654180</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helen Doe1783784350|title= The First Atlantic LinerThis Golden Fleece: BrunelA Journey Through Britain's Great Western Steamship|rating= 4.5|genre= Knitted History|summary= Isambard Kingdom Brunel's enduring seafaring monuments were the Great Britain and Great Eastern. Their forerunner the Great Western, which paved the way and yet is now largely forgotten, at last merits a full account in this book. Ms Doe admits at the front that she is not an engineer, and as a maritime historian her interests are more social and economic than technical. Her aim is to tell the story of the ship, that of the people who travelled on her as crew or passengers, and her influence on subsequent maritime history after an existence of barely two decades.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445667207</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (translators)|title=The Unwomanly Face of WarEsther Rutter

|summary=''War''It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, says Svetlana Alexievich, 'writing to people she'is first of all murder, d never met and then hard workpreparing spreadsheets. And then simply ordinary life: singing, falling in love, putting your hair in curlers…'' The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. This extraordinary book is January was going to be a collection time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of first-hand accounts by Russian fighting women in the Second World War. A million women joined Russian military forces as soldiers of all ranksBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, medics, pilots, drivers, snipers, cryptographers. Most were very young, little more than girls discovering and telling the story of 18 or 19. They were passionate about defending their homeland wool's history and often extremely keen to join up, returning again how it had made and again to recruitment offices until someone could be persuaded to take themchanged the landscape. Their ambition was to help their brothers, fathers, husbands to fight She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the terrible invader. They were trained farm'' - and sent learned to the frontspin, where they were greeted at first with disappointment knit and weave from her mother and disgust by fighting men, who had hoped for reinforcements of able-bodied menher mother's friend. The women had to prove themselves This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141983523</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrew Lacey1789017977|title= The English Civil War in 100 Facts|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The Ronnie and Hilda'100 Facts' series is now sufficiently well-established as s Romance: Towards a guarantee of useful introductory histories. This latest addition, recounting the struggle between King and Parliament, is no exception.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445649950</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNew Life after World War II|author=Lauren Elkin|title=Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and LondonWendy Williams

|genre=History |summary=Lauren Elkin is down on suburbs: Ronnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they're places where you can't were ever married or shouldneven Harry't be seen walking; places where, s birthdate: he claimed to have been born in fiction1863, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking of everything from ''Madame Bovary'' to ''Revolutionary Road'')but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. When she imagines to herself what For a while the female version of that family was quite well-known historical figure, to-do but disaster struck in the carefree ''flâneur'', might 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be, she thinks about women who freely wandered well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the world's great cities without having the more insalubrious connotation of the word 'streetwalker' applied to themarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593378</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jeffrey James1980891117|title= IrelandG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: The Struggle for Power: From A year in the Dark Ages to the Jacobiteslife of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryArt|summary= The 'Irish troubles' go back over many centuries. When I and doubtless many others George Engleheart was one of my generation studied History at school, the Emerald Isle barely intruded on our consciousnessleading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, apart with a career lasting from brief references the 1770s to the Battle Regency era. He was also one of the Boyne and maybe most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the Easter Rising. This book therefore does usnames of each of his clients, and the country, a service in helping subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to fill a very large gapas his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662469</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Hicks1789016304|title= The Family War and Love: A family's testament of Richard IIIanguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= New titles Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the Yorkist dynastycity during the war years, which ruled England for little more than two decadesbut 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. Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, continue that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to proliferate. Michael Hicksescalate in the way that it did, acknowledged but initial protests melted away as one of the great – although never sympathetic – experts organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on Richard IIIa vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1908745819|title=Surfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has contributed your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but 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, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering ''an interesting chronicle 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 natural world, of those aspects of the shelvespoetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660156</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clive Pearson0857058320|title=The Second World War in 100 FactsLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|summary=To begin at ''Lord Of All the beginning, that Dead'' is one dissembling title. 100 Facts? There are bounties galore here that that low figure belies. There are a lot more, journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and I would attest that there will be some you arendeath. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle't completely au fait with. If s death in the Phoney Spanish Civil War and . Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is the Battle of figure who looms large over the Plate are bread and butter to you, how about Matapan? You could well be used to reading essays about Goebbels or Speer, but Field-Marshal von Manstein? Thatbook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's not to say forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of this book is whether it is utterly exhaustive or complex, nor confined possible for his great uncle to the trivial. Its unexpected format actually makes it one of the better primers be a hero whilst having fought for the entire WWII, before, during and afterwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445653532</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Ashdown-Hill0008294011|title= How to Lose a Country: The Wars of the Roses7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= During my schooldays, A little while ago a friend asked me if I always found thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the Wars of question ''Discuss the Roses the most fascinating period of English historyfactors which led to... In those days '' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we were taught didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that the battles began I do know. We are in 1455 and ended in 1485. Ashdown-Hill is one danger of several modern historians whose study of the subject extends these boundaries, losing democracy and in this volume he starts with the reign whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of Richard IIa better one, ending late in particularly as the Elizabethan era'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660350</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles Drazin1788037812|title= Mapping The Fraternity of the PastEstranged: A Search The Fight for Five Brothers at the Edge of EmpireHomosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating= 45|genre= History|summary=''Mapping Originally passed in 1885, the Past'' is at once law that had made homosexual relations a personal quest into the author's family historycrime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and an account 1908, three books on the nature of some of the interestinghomosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, perhaps even amazing things as well as the Royal Engineers have achieved over heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the past couple margins of centuries. Drazin is descended from a generation of Engineers; five brothers who all served society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the ArmyUK, mostly as surveyors mapping so the far flung parts publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the Empire. This was despite them being both Irish and Catholic. He uncovers their pastsscientific understanding of homosexuality, the many things they undertook and how it affected them in beginning the end. It's a story that's uplifting struggle for recognition and extremely sadequality, as leading to the First World War and the Easter Rising milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1916 seem to mark a true watershed for his family1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099468271</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lyndal Roper1910593508|title= Martin Luther:Renegade Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and ProphetMike Collins|rating= 5|genre= History|summary= Exactly five centuries ago in October 2017, Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses against the sale of indulgences to the door of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg. The ensuing maelstrom ripped the Christian church asunder and changed the course of history. But how was This incredible graphic novel is a provincial professor in a cassock able love letter to set the Reformation in motion, despite papal Moon landings and imperial authority being ranged against him? In a biography which was ten years in the making, Lyndal Roper strips away mythology to illuminate the facts underneath (passion for starters, it is highly unlikely that Luther actually nailed the ninety-five theses to the door). She provides a thoughtful analysis of the forces which drove the evangelical preacher and convincingly explains his contradictions – whysubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, after decades of monastic observance did he marry a nun Chris Baker and develop Mike Collins. This is a love of German beer story we know well and wine? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703443</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= A T Williams|title= A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End because of World War II|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= In ''A Passing Fury,'' we follow an Orwell Prize-winning law academic's journey through Germany as he pursues the legal history of the trials waged by the British, and to some extent other Allied forcesthis, against the newly-fallen Nazi regime. This is authors take a deeply personal account, few narrative shortcuts knowing that reads very much like a travelogue in places. Williams is affected at every turn by harrowingly familiar accounts of life we can fill in the concentration camp system, such as those of the esteemed Italian writer and academic Primo Levi, who features throughout the bookblanks. More striking to the reader, however, These shortcuts are the often-forgotten atrocities Williams describes that failed only downside to make a mark on our collective memory, such as the Cap Arcona tragedy, in which some 7,000 concentration camp internees were killed in book. If you've ever read a British air raid. Horrors such as these, which largely go unremembered, raise many questions, chief among them, was justice served? Williams pursues answers to this question throughout his investigation, which is just shy of 500 pages long.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593262</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David Grann|title= Killers comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the Flower Moon|rating= 5|genre= True Crime|summary=Killers of the Flower Moon tells the story of the Osage tribe, forced to settle in the rocky, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma in what would become Osage County. In an unexpected turn of fortune, prospectors struck oil, instantly catapulting the Osage into unimaginable wealth slight feeling that there are scenes missing and fortune making them some of the richest people in the worldthat dialogue has been trimmed. Then members of the tribe start to die, slowly at first of apparently natural causes then in increasingly violent ways. Investigation into the matter stalls and This is beset by incompetence and a general lack of interest in the fate of the Osage until the FBI becomes involved graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and draws together a team of battle scarred, unorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom Whitestill felt too short. As pressure on White increases, from both the FBI and the increasingly angry Osage, the race to find the truth becomes increasingly difficult, with more twists and double crosses than any murder mystery.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857209027</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Feiling1786331047|title=The Island that DisappearedRace to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport

|summary= 'The Island that Disappeared' tells basic facts about the history deaths of the, largely now forgottenNicholas and Alexandra, island some of Providence in which were deliberately obscured at the Caribbean. It is a fascinating and compelling account of what might time for various reasons, have long since been but ultimately is the story of greed, ambition and human natureestablished. In 1630 on board the Seaflower, a sister ship to For the Mayflower, a small group last few months of English puritans sailed to the island to establish a new colony. They were convinced in their belief that the British Empire would rise lives in Russia the Central America former Tsar and not Tsarina, their children and few remaining servants were held in New England. The hopes that they carried was soon destroyed by failing cropsincreasingly squalid, quarrels and rebellions and many turned to piracy and the plundering of Spanish treasure shipshumiliating captivity. Within ten yearsTo prevent them from being rescued, in July 1918 the Spanish retaliated revolutionary regime had them all shot and invaded the islandbayoneted to death in circumstances which, wiping once the colony out. Providence became a footnote of history until it news was resettled over a hundred years later. The book tells the island's story from its early puritan beginnings to the present and through its telling it provides a fascinating microcosm of the world we live confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in todayEurope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911184040</amazonuk>