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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Woolf -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Woolf_Great.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985880?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985880]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[: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 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]] <!-- Hailstone -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Frontpage[[image:Hailstone_Berlin.jpg|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]] 1785633457| styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-alignCharging Around: left;"|===[[Berlin in Exploring the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 Edges of England by Allan Hailstone]]===Electric Car [[image:4star.jpg|link=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]] <!-- Moorehead -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Clive Wilkinson[[image:Moorehead_Russian.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445667320?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creativerating=6738&creativeASIN=1445667320]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead]]===Travel[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The author was writing from Clive Wilkinson has a slightly different stance from most other historians. Only 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 As he neared his belief that America's post-war commitments in Europe and eightieth birthday the Far East, and other post-1945 developments, could also be traced back to the events idea of 1917. Much of his material came from German archives which were saved from destruction when exploring the Third Reich was on the brink edges of collapse. These documents that the German government would have kept private had they won the war provided full detail on the attempts of their forebears to pave the way for chaos and revolution England in their Asiatic neighbouran electric car was not totally outrageous.[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead|Full Review]] <!-- Mourby -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]In fact, [[: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 region, 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]] <!-- Anderson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Anderson_Fantasyland.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785038656?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785038656]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Fantasyland covers the history of America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detail. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints the conjuring of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians, the exhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wit. [[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]]<br> <br> <!-- Way -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Way_Tea.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:History|History]] Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to 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 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. [[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way|Full Review]] <!-- Stewart -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Frontpage[[image:Stewart_Marches.jpg|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099581892?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099581892]] B09BLBP3P8| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|==title=[[The Marches by Rory Stewart]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] The Observer quote on the front of the paperback edition of StewartNeville Chamberlain'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 thisWar: 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 6How Great Britain Opposed Hitler,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison. [[The Marches by Rory Stewart|Full Review]] <!-- Parker -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical1939-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=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]] <!-- Maconie -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:MACONIE_lONG.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785030531/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconie'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. Let'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 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 of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at least. [[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --> |} {{newreview1940|author= Philip Matyszak|title=24 Hours in Ancient RomeFrederic 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= Nathen AminJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the CrownFritz and Kurt|rating= 4|genre= HistoryConfident Readers|summary= The family name We start with the pair of Beaufort played a major part brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in British history during 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the fourteenth synagogue choir and fifteenth centuriesat a vocational school. It therefore seems remarkable that little Kurt has been written about 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 until in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the appearance 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 each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this book.could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>024156574X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Josh DeanJohn Henry Phillips|title=The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in HistorySearch

|summary=In February 1968 Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of the latter, as our author promises to locate the port topic of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula with a crew of 98 submarinerstitular search. The captain and executive officers were experienced: And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the only factor giving cause for concern was that search area is a wide one, the crew had only recently returned target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to base and were expecting a longer break and were only particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back at sea because two sister ships had experienced mechanical problems to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and were unfit for combat controlsthat he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The Division Commander complained that secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the decision was cruel and potentially recklessvast majority of whom perished. He Who else would be proved right - but not publicly - as K-129 went down with all hands make such promises to someone in March 1968their nineties?|isbn=1472146182}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4. 5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=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 a while 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 sSoviet navy realised that it had lost one of its submarines and despite an extensive search they couldn't find itnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445674742</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Kay0578761718|title=Vintage KitchenaliaThe Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating=34.5

|summary=Over The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the half century fire and more then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that Iwasn've been preparing meals on t the end of its story: after a regular basis Iphenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church've seen food preparation move from being just something you dids walls were transported to Fulton, to an obsession akin to a religionMissouri. My first kitchen had nothing There, in the way grounds of luxury - it Westminster College, the church was there to make meals as nutritiously rebuilt and economically today serves as possiblea memorial to Winston Churchill.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784385166|title=The Third Reich in 100 Objects: my current kitchen A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating=5|genre=History|summary=What is not ''quite'' state the first image that comes to mind when you think of the art, Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but itthey are emblematic of the Third Reich's equipped fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to you. In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to a high standard illustrate the period of the Third Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts. }}{{Frontpage|author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and is a pleasure to work Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone inthe second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. But what I certainly didn't know of the weeks of all protests and hunger strikes from the equipment which went students beforethe massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, which paved I didn't know how the way to what we have now? area had long been a venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. Emma Kay This book is going to give you practically flawless in giving a quick trip through general browser's context for the historywhole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445657511</amazonuk>1684056993}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The 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 time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of school. She was the only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the 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. 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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martyn Beardsley1783784350|title= Waterloo Voices 1815This Golden Fleece: The Battle at First HandA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle of Waterloo, fought on a midsummer day on a muddy field It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in Belgiumher office job, brought an end writing to two decades of war in Europepeople she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. As one of January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the pivotal events length and breadth of the nineteenth centuryBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of wool's history and how it has inevitably been had made and changed the focus of many accounts over landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the last two hundred yearsfarm'' - and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Rutherford1789017977|title=Landscape GardensRonnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams

|summary=My first experience George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a ''big'' garden career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. He was Versailles 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 a teenager his fee book.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789016304|title=War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and whilst I was impressedentranced by what she discovered, I didnparticularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family't really like its stories were equally fascinating. I felt stifled A hundred and strangely underwhelmed by seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the flatness of it allwar years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. As luck 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 have soon be pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardensdid, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It would be many years before I revised my opinion's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies. On }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1908745819|title=Surfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Sometimes when people suggest that you read a trip to Harewood House certain book, they tell you ''this one has 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 was too hot turns out that we didn't like the book. That's a day rare experience. People who are sensitive to be corralled into the househearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, so I wandered was told why. The blurb speaks of the gardens and found they were delightfulauthor considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself. '' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of where I felt upliftedam. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me Add to that my love of the opportunity to walk natural world, of those aspects of the grounds for over an hourpoetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. I It was completely won over and a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brownwritten for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity I am pleased to put him in contexthave it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445669935</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 a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published ''Lord Of All the first edition of his Dead''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From is a journey to uncover the School of Economic Experienceauthor's lost ancestor's life and death. It contained more than two hundred recipes Cercas is searching for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and dessertsthe meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. The style was informalManuel Mena, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimedCercas' great uncle, not at those is the figure who could afford to cook on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for looms large numbersover the book. Whilst the ingredients were - He died relatively young whilst fighting for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on the careful combination of flavours and aromaswhy his uncle fought for this dictator. Spices are used conservatively and The question at the bluntness centre of some Moorish cooking this book is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras' own region, Aragon, whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the Iberian court and the New Worldwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442279419</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susan Duxbury-Neumann0008294011|title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?How to Lose a Country: A History of the German Population of Great BritainThe 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical 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 takes some time ''Discuss the factors which led to provide ...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a full answergood or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, and this slim but useful volume does so very wellparticularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664860</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gillian Tindall1788037812|title= The Tunnel Through TimeFraternity of the Estranged: A New Route The Fight for an Old London JourneyHomosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=This book traces Originally passed in 1885, the course of historical journeys across the city law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time , restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and space1908, examining how three books on the areas above 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 studying homosexuality was common on the new Crossrail routeEuropean Continent, but barely talked about in the largest building project currently under construction in Europe offering high speed links across LondonUK, have changed over so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the centuriesscientific understanding of homosexuality, with destruction and renewal being a constantly recurring process in beginning the city's history. It is a fascinatingstruggle for recognition and equality, compellingly readable exploration through leading to the historical highways and byways milestone legalisation of the metropolissame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587793</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Trigg1910593508|title=Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS: The Final Testament of the OostfrontersApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=3.5

|summary=In This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the week I write thisMoon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Trump has come under fire for not condemning fascistic behaviour in America from some Neo-NazisChris Baker and Mike Collins. It strikes me that the ''Neo-'' This is a pointless dignification – yes, they cannot be deemed to follow Hitler precisely as he's long dead story we know well and burnt, so they're kind because of newthis, but common sense obliges me to just call them Nazis. Their excuse is they feel America has been invaded by the enemy – but what if you were indeed under occupation? Could you see yourself working for the forces authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that had indeed invaded you? The author begins by pointing out that several countries were invaded by we can fill in the Nazis, and they have different feelings about blanks. These shortcuts are the people who worked against only downside to the commonly-held nationalistic aimbook. France hates her collaborators, but just north If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the border things slight feeling that there are different – scenes missing and the picture that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a lot more muddy graphic novel that could easily have been three times as a resultlong and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>