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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Woolf -->{{Frontpage*[[image:Woolf_Great.jpg|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985880?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985880]]1785633457|title===[[The Great HorizonCharging Around: 50 Tales Exploring the Edges of Exploration England by Jo Woolf]]=Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=5 [[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Jo Woolf summary=Clive Wilkinson has compiled a brilliant set history of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave peopletravelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of As he neared his eightieth birthday the mysteries idea of exploring the wildest parts edges of our worldEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, and also given us an understanding of what it is like to should be faced with the most terrible conditions and still have the determination and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as a taster which encourages us to seek out pleasant holiday for Clive and read more about some of the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justice. [[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf|Full Review]]his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Hailstone -->|isbn=B09BLBP3P8*[[image:Hailstone_Berlin.jpg|left|linktitle=httpsNeville Chamberlain's War://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbagHow Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-21&linkCode1940|author=as2&campFrederic Seager|rating=1634&creative4.5|genre=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]]History|summary===[[Berlin in Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the Cold early days of World War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:GENRE|GENRE]] II from 1939-40, known as the ''Berlin in the Cold Phoney War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone . We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, and Churchill coming in his visits to save the city during day. Very little time is spent on this period. The images provide an insight into the changing nature in cultural reflections and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life vital significance in how the city during the Cold Warwar played out. [[Berlin in the Cold War}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3756228711|title=CDC: 1959 to 1966 by Allan HailstoneThe happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating=4|Full Review]]genre=History<br>|summary=''The history of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian MourbyJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great HotelsFritz and Kurt
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|genre=TravelConfident Readers|summary=Adrian Mourby We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has given us to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a flying visit light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to each of fifty grand hotelsHitler's will, from fourteen regions and instead of having a national vote to keep the worldNazis out, invite them in with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of an overall pictureopen arms. So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself Kristallnacht'grand' was happened in covent Garden Vienna just as much as in 1774 and it ushered Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the beginning younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and family conveniently nearbythe stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|isbn=024156574X}}{{Frontpage|author=John Henry Phillips|title=The hotels we visit all began life Search|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in different circumstances and each faced 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 different fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of challenges. We begin in the Americaslatter, move as our author promises to locate the topic of the titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the United Kingdomsearch area is a wide one, circumnavigate Europethe target might not exist any more – oh, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africait's underwater, India and Asiawhen he cannot dive. AustraliaLatching on to a particular 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 that he was lucky to survive when it seemssank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, does not go the vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title= Flights for the grandFreedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1785782754</amazonuk>It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip Matyszak0578761718|title=24 Hours in Ancient RomeThe Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver
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|summary= I've never been that interested The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in Ancient Romerecords. Blame my teachersSadly, or our oh-so-dry visits to Roman villas with their earnest interpretation panels, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all the original church was destroyed in the interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty fire and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend themthen survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church'Mea culpa''s walls were transported to Fulton, you might sayMissouri. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours There, in Ancient Rome'', and its claim to introduce readers to the real Ancient Rome by examining the lives grounds of ordinary peopleWestminster College, I decided it the church was high time rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to update my education. And the lovely artwork on the front cover made this book all the more appealingWinston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438564</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon Bennett Connolly1784385166|title= Heroines The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of the Medieval WorldNazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating= 5|genre= History|summary= Many women in medieval times left their mark on history, What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but as a rule they have been neglected by biographers are emblematic of the Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and historians as there is too little surviving information for them to have even brief biographies images from that time may be less familiar to themselvesyou. Ms Connolly In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has adopted an enterprising solution attempted to illustrate the problem by writing a general account on a broadly thematic basisperiod of the Third Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662647</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kurt AndersenLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= FantasylandTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= History Graphic Novels|summary= Fantasyland covers I never really followed the history events of America from 1517 to 2017 Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in awesome detailthe second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. Covering five centuries I certainly didn't know of tempestuous history, Andersen paints the conjuring weeks of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything protests and hunger strikes from pilgrims to politiciansthe students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the exhilarating gold rush to alternative factsarea had long been a venue for political protest, seminal episodes are explored and I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in forensic detail with razor sharp witgiving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785038656</amazonuk>1684056993
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Twigs Way0648684806|title=Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series)Clara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday
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|genre=LifestyleBiography|summary=Tea Gardens really began in London in The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras time she was effectively a trip just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to the country in those dayssail with her parents and three brothers. Men had their coffee housesInstead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, but they were not places where women could or would be seenboth in and out of school. Tea She was introduced to England the only child in the 17th century but it household and her childhood was not until 1784 that glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of the high duty United States and life was hard, as Clara was reduced from 119% to 12½% find out when she and tea became her grandparents eventually went to join the drink of choice for the nationfamily. Until then the working classes Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had been fuelled largely by cheap ginten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. OnlyAs the eldest girl, where a heavy burden would this beverage be drunk? One answer was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see fall on Clara and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea Wisconsin was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardensa rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445670011</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nathen Amin1783784350|title=The House of BeaufortThis Golden Fleece: The Bastard Line that Captured the CrownA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The family name 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 the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of Beaufort played wool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. She'd grown up on a major part sheep farm in British history during Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the fourteenth farm'' - and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and fifteenth centuriesher mother's friend. It therefore seems remarkable that little has been written about them until the appearance of this book This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rory Stewart1789017977|title= The MarchesRonnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating= 54|genre= TravelHistory|summary= The Observer quote on Ronnie Williams was the front son of the paperback edition of StewartThomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's latest book observes some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry''This is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhapss birthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, but to call it travel writing is to totally under-sell ithe was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has For a while the background family was quite well-to -do this: he had an international upbringing and followed his father but disaster struck in both the Army 1929 Depression and the Foreign Office, and then (five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father's, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Oh, was his need to be well-turned-out and he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002this would stay with him throughout his life. A walk along He joined the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparisonarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581892</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1980891117|title=G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=Josh DeanJohn Webley|rating=4.5|genre=Art|summary=George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. He was also one of the 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 names of each of his clients, and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789016304|title=The Taking War and Love: A family's testament of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation anguish, endurance and devotion in Historyoccupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin
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|summary=In February 1968 the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left the port 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 Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula with a crew of 98 submarinersAnn Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. The captain A hundred and executive officers seven thousand Jews were experienced: deported from the only factor giving cause for concern was that city during the crew had war years, but only recently returned five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to base and were expecting happen in a longer break and country with liberal values who were only back at sea because two sister ships had experienced mechanical problems and were unfit for combat controlsresistant to German occupation. The Division Commander complained Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the decision was cruel and potentially reckless. He Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be proved right - pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it did, but not publicly - initial protests melted away as K-129 went down with all hands in March 1968the organisers became more circumspect. It was 's an atrocity on a while before the sSoviet navy realised that it had lost one vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of its submarines and despite an extensive search they couldn't find itindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445674742</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage<!-- Parker -->*[[image:Parker_50.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784937908?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784937908]] ===[[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker]]==isbn=1908745819 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:History|History]] The Vikings have got a lot to own up to. A huge DNA study in 2014 was the first thing that proved to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood in their veins – they had been insisting it was that of the Irish. The Vikings it was that forced our English king's army to march from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasion, only to spend the next fortnight schlepping back to Hastings to try and fend off another – and the Normans had the same Norse origin as the first lot, hence the name. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from the coast – that has a Viking longship on its signpost. Yes, they got to a lot of places, from Greenland to Kiev, from Murmansk to Turkey and the Med, and their misaligned history is well worth visiting – particularly on these pages. [[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewSurfacing|author=Emma Kay|title=Vintage KitchenaliaKathleen Jamie|rating=3.5
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|summary=Over the half century and more Sometimes when people suggest that Iyou read a certain book, they tell you ''ve been preparing meals this one has your name on a regular basis Iit''ve seen food preparation move from being just something you did. 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 an obsession akin to hearing a religionbook calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. My first kitchen had nothing in The blurb speaks of the way of luxury - it was there to make meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not author considering ''quitean older, less tethered sense of herself.'' state of the art, but it Older. Less tethered. That's equipped to not a high standard and is a pleasure to work inbad description of where I am. But what Add to that my love of all the equipment which went beforenatural world, which paved of those aspects of the poetic 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 what we have now? me eventually. Emma Kay is going I am pleased to give you a quick trip through the historyhave it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445657511</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martyn Beardsley0857058320|title= Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First Hand|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle of Waterloo, fought on 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 Lord Of All the focus of many accounts over the last two hundred years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDead|author=Sarah Rutherford|title=Landscape GardensJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)
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|genre=ArtHistory|summary=My first experience of a ''bigLord Of All the Dead'' garden was Versailles as is a teenager journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and whilst I was impresseddeath. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, I didnCercas't really like it. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the flatness of it allbook. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardensHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. It would be many years before I revised my opinionCercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. On a trip to Harewood House The question at the centre of this book is whether it was too hot a day is possible for his great uncle 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 hero whilst having fought for the opportunity to walk the grounds for over an hourwrong side. I was completely won over and a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him in context.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445669935</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stuart Maconie0008294011|title= Long Road From JarrowHow to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating= 4.5|genre= Travel History|summary= A little while ago a friend asked me if I cancelled my thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Country WalkingDiscuss the factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn' magazine subscription about t certain whether it was a year ago and the only good or bad thing I miss is Stuart Maconiethat we didn's column. His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Lett know what all 's be honest, though, I picked this one up because of someone else's review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up inwas leading to. Like Maconie I have no connection (think now that I do know . We are in danger of) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about losing democracy and whilst it being 's a flawed system I can't think of a whole matrix of events reducible to better one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreaveparticularly as the 'benevolent dictator'is as rare as hen' then somehow it does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at leasts teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicky Hayward1788037812|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art The Fraternity of Cookerythe Estranged: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=45|genre=CookeryHistory|summary=In 1745 Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a Spanish friary cookcrime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, Juan Altamirasrestrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, published the first edition of his ''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From three books on the School nature of Economic Experience''homosexuality appeared. It contained more than They were written by two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and fresh fishJohn Addington Symonds, vegetables and dessertsas well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. The style was informal, chatty Exploring the margins of society and humorous on occasions and it studying homosexuality was aimed, not at those who could afford to cook common on a grand scalethe European Continent, but at those with more modest budgetsbarely talked about in the UK, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbers. Whilst so the ingredients publications of these men were - for hugely significant – contributing to the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination scientific understanding of flavours homosexuality, and aromas. Spices are used conservatively beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the bluntness milestone legalisation of some Moorish cooking is eschewed same-sex relationships in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras' own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New World1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442279419</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susan Duxbury-Neumann1910593508|title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great BritainApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some time This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to provide the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a full answerstory we know well and because of this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and this slim but useful volume does so very wellthat dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664860</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gillian Tindall1786331047|title= The Tunnel Through TimeRace to Save the Romanovs: A New Route for an Old London Journey|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=This book traces the course of historical journeys across the city in time and space, examining how the areas above the new Crossrail route, the largest building project currently under construction in Europe offering high speed links across London, have changed over The Truth Behind the centuries, with destruction and renewal being a constantly recurring process in the citySecret Plans to Rescue Russia's history. It is a fascinating, compellingly readable exploration through the historical highways and byways of the metropolis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587793</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewImperial Family|author=Jonathan Trigg|title=Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS: The Final Testament of the OostfrontersHelen Rappaport|rating=3.5
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|summary=In The basic facts about the week I write thisdeaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, Trump has come under fire for not condemning fascistic behaviour in America from some Neo-Nazis. It strikes me that of which were deliberately obscured at the ''Neo-'' is a pointless dignification – yestime for various reasons, they cannot be deemed to follow Hitler precisely as he's have long dead and burnt, so they're kind of new, but common sense obliges me to just call them Nazissince been established. Their excuse is they feel America has been invaded by For the enemy – but what if you were indeed under occupation? Could you see yourself working for last few months of their lives in Russia the forces that had indeed invaded you? The author begins by pointing out that several countries were invaded by the Nazisformer Tsar and Tsarina, their children and they have different feelings about the people who worked against the commonly-few remaining servants were held nationalistic aimin increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. France hates her collaboratorsTo prevent them from being rescued, but just north of in July 1918 the border things are different – revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to death in circumstances which, once the picture is a lot more muddy as a resultnews was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>
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