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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===[[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[Charging Around:Category:Travel|Travel]] Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the mysteries of the wildest parts of our world, and also given us an understanding of what it is like to 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 and read more about some of Exploring the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justice. [[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales Edges of Exploration England by Jo Woolf|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Hailstone -->Electric Car*[[image:Hailstone_Berlin.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]]Clive Wilkinson ===[[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone]]==|rating=5 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] ''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the city during this period. The images provide an insight into the changing nature of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in the city during the Cold War. [[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Moorehead -->*[[image:Moorehead_Russian.jpg|left|linksummary=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445667320?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445667320]] ===[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The author was writing from a slightly different stance from most other historians. Only Clive Wilkinson has a decade after the end history of the Second World War, he was basing his account on the premise that the Nazis' rise to power in Germany was connected travelling by unconventional means with the heritage that Lenin had left behind, and that without Stalin's assurances of support Hitler would never have dared to plunge the world into such a devastating global conflictpreference for slow travel. It was his belief that America's post-war commitments in Europe and the Far East, and other post-1945 developments, could also be traced back to the events of 1917. Much of As he neared his material came from German archives which were saved from destruction when the Third Reich was on eightieth birthday the brink idea of collapse. These documents that exploring the German government would have kept private had they won the war provided full detail on the attempts edges of their forebears to pave the way for chaos and revolution England in their Asiatic neighbour.[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Mourby -->*[[image:Mourby_Rooms.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782754]] ===[[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]=== [[image:4staran electric car was not totally outrageous.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by regionIn fact, which helps to give something of an overall picture. So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning of a period when a hotel would should be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge pleasant holiday for those without friends Clive and family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a different set of challenges. We begin in the Americashis wife, move to the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. AustraliaJoan, shouldn't it seems, does not go for the grand. [[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby|Full Review]]<br>?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip MatyszakB09BLBP3P8|title=24 Hours in Ancient RomeNeville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager

|summary= I've never been that interested in Ancient RomeReceived wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. Blame my teachers, or our ohOne such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the early days of World War II from 1939-so-dry visits to Roman villas with their earnest interpretation panels40, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all the interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with known as the impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend them. ''Mea culpaPhoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, you might say. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours in Ancient Rome''war breaking out, and its claim to introduce readers Churchill coming in to save the real Ancient Rome by examining the lives of ordinary people, I decided it was high day. Very little time to update my education. And the lovely artwork is spent on the front cover made this period in cultural reflections and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book all , it was of vital significance in how the more appealingwar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438564</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon Bennett Connolly3756228711|title= Heroines of the Medieval WorldCDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating= 54|genre= History|summary= Many women in medieval times left their mark on ''The history, but as a rule they have been neglected by biographers and historians as there of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer is too little surviving information for them to have even brief biographies to themselvesquite right about that. Ms Connolly He has adopted an enterprising solution chosen to tell us about the short, but explosive, history of the problem by writing Control Data Company, CDC, for whom he worked. It's a general account on fascinating tale, told in a broadly thematic basismixture of technological summary and wry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662647</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kurt AndersenJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title= FantasylandFritz and Kurt|rating= 4|genre= History Confident Readers|summary= Fantasyland covers We start with the history pair of America from 1517 brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to 2017 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 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 light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in awesome detailwith open arms. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, Andersen paints as did all the conjuring round-ups of America Jews. These in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to politicianseach other, packed off on the exhilarating gold rush same train to alternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp witBuchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785038656</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Twigs WayJohn Henry Phillips|title=Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series)The Search|rating=45|genre=LifestyleHistory|summary=Tea Gardens really began in London Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in the late 18th century: dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a trip fair bit harder when you set out to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively find some specific thing. This book is a trip case of the latter, as our author promises to locate the country in those daystopic of the titular search. Men had their coffee housesAnd he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, but they were the target might not places where women could or would be seenexist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Tea was introduced Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to England in find the 17th century but it was not until 1784 landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and that the high duty he was reduced lucky to survive when it sank from 119% beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to 12½% and tea became everyone else aboard, the drink vast majority of choice for the nationwhom perished. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where Who else would this beverage be drunk? One answer was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went make such promises to see and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served someone in places such as Ranelagh Gardens.their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445670011</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nathen AminB09F4CTKJR|title=The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the CrownFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary= The family name It's the later stages of Beaufort played World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a major part young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in British history during Canada, the first to be attached to the fourteenth RAF and fifteenth centuriesthe first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. It therefore seems remarkable But before that little can happen, Petrol has been written about them until to master flying the appearance of this booknotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rory Stewart0578761718|title= The MarchesInspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating= 4.5|genre= TravelHistory|summary= The Observer quote on the front church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the paperback edition City of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing London from at its finest.'' Perhapsleast 1181, but to call it travel writing is to totally under-sell when itwas first mentioned in records. Sadly, This is erudition at its finestthe original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Stewart has It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the background to do this: he had an international upbringing fire and followed his father in both then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Army and Blitz. But that wasn't the Foreign Officeend of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, and then (to his fatherthe stones from the church'swalls were transported to Fulton, bemusement, shall we say) became an MPMissouri. OhThere, and he walked 6in the grounds of Westminster College,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be church was rebuilt and today serves as a doddle by comparisonmemorial to Winston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581892</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Josh Dean1784385166|title=The Taking of K-129Third Reich in 100 Objects: The Most Daring Covert Operation in A Material Historyof Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse

|summary=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 they are emblematic of the Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to you. In February 1968 this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left the port period of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula with a crew Third Reich through one hundred of 98 submarinersits material artefacts. The captain  }}{{Frontpage|author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and executive officers were experiencedEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I never really followed the only factor giving cause for concern events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was that playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the crew had only recently returned to base weeks of protests and were expecting a longer break hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and were only back at sea because two sister ships the birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had experienced mechanical problems long been a venue for political protest, and were unfit I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for combat controlsthe whole season of protests back in 1989. |isbn=1684056993}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The Division Commander complained that International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the decision time she was cruel just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and potentially recklessthree brothers. He would be proved right - but not publicly - as K-129 went down Instead, she remained with all hands her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in March 1968and out of school. It She was a while before the sSoviet navy realised that it only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had lost one become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of its submarines the United States and despite an extensive search they couldn't life was hard, as Clara was to find itout 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, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445674742</amazonuk>

{{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]] ==isbn=[[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker]]===1783784350[[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=CategoryThis Golden Fleece:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ChildrenA Journey Through Britain's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Knitted 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> {{newreview|author=Emma Kay|title=Vintage KitchenaliaEsther Rutter|rating=3.5

|summary=Over the half century It was December and more that IEsther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she've been d never met and preparing meals on a regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something you spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did, to an obsession akin to a religionnot soothe her mind. My first kitchen had nothing in the way of luxury - it January was there going to make meals as nutritiously be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not ''quite'' state breadth of the artBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, but itdiscovering and telling the story of wool's equipped to a high standard history and how it had made and is changed the landscape. She'd grown up on a pleasure to work sheep farm in. But what of all Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the equipment which went beforefarm'' - and learned to spin, which paved the way to what we have now? knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. Emma Kay is going to give you a quick trip through the historyThis was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445657511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martyn Beardsley1789017977|title= Waterloo Voices 1815Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: The Battle at First HandTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle Ronnie Williams was the son of WaterlooThomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, fought on but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a midsummer day on few years off his age. For a muddy field while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in Belgium, brought an end the 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 two decades of war in Europebe well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. As one of He joined the pivotal events of the nineteenth century, it has inevitably been the focus of many accounts over the last two hundred yearsarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Rutherford1980891117|title=Landscape GardensG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating=4.5

|summary=My first experience George Engleheart was one 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 flatness leading portrait miniaturists 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 houseGeorgian London, so I wandered the gardens and found they were delightful. I felt uplifted. Then with a cricket match at Stowe gave me career lasting from the opportunity 1770s to walk the grounds for over an hourRegency era. I He was completely won also one of the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over and a devotee twenty of them being of Lancelot 'Capability' BrownKing George III). Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to put him in contextas his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445669935</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stuart Maconie1789016304|title= Long Road From JarrowWar and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating= 5|genre= Travel History|summary= I cancelled my 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 ''Country WalkingThe Diary of Ann Frank'' magazine subscription about a year ago and the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconiebut then realised that her own family's columnstories were equally fascinating. His down-to-earth approach A hundred and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a soul more sensitive than he 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 willing pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to admitescalate in the way that it did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. Let It's be honestan atrocity on a 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, though, I picked they tell you ''this one up because of someone elsehas 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 reviewa rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Ayclifferarely get it wrong. Places In this case, I grew up inwas told why. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know The blurb speaks of) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a whole matrix bad description of events reducible where I am. Add to one word like Aberfanthat my love of the natural world, Hillsboroughof those aspects of the poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part and substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had my history tooname on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. Tangentially, at leastI am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicky Hayward0857058320|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|genre=CookeryHistory|summary=In 1745 ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish friary cookCivil War. Manuel Mena, Juan AltamirasCercas' great uncle, published is the figure who looms large over the first edition 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. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008294011|title=How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From Discuss the School of Economic Experiencefactors which led to...''. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. The style I agreed that she was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions right and wasn't certain whether it was aimed, not at those who could afford to cook on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to cook for large numbers. Whilst the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination of flavours and aromasI think now that I do know. Spices We are used conservatively and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour danger of something much more subtle losing democracy and we see influences from Altamiraswhilst it's a flawed system I can' own region, Aragont think of a better one, particularly as the Iberian court and the New World'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442279419</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susan Duxbury-Neumann1788037812|title= What Have The Fraternity of the Germans Ever Done Estranged: The Fight for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great BritainHomosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time to provide a full answer, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and this slim studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but useful volume does barely talked about in the UK, so very wellthe publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664860</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gillian Tindall1910593508|title= The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London JourneyApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=This book traces the course of historical journeys across incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the city in time Moon landings and space, examining how the areas above passion for the new Crossrail routesubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, the largest building project currently under construction in Europe offering high speed links across LondonChris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of this, have changed over the centuries, with destruction and renewal being authors take a constantly recurring process few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the cityblanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you's historyve ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. It This is a fascinating, compellingly readable exploration through the historical highways graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and byways of the metropolisstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587793</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Trigg1786331047|title=Voices of The Race to Save the Flemish Waffen-SSRomanovs: The Final Testament of Truth Behind the OostfrontersSecret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=3.5

|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>