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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09BLBP3P8|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the early days of World War II from 1939-40, known as the ''Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, and Churchill coming in to save the day. Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was of vital significance in how the war played out.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3756228711|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating=4|genre=History|summary=''The history of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.''

{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Woolf -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Woolf_GreatAuthor Hans Bodmer is quite right about that.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 He has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped chosen to tell us unlock many of about the mysteries short, but explosive, history of the wildest parts of our worldControl Data Company, CDC, 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 onfor whom he worked. This book could be viewed as It's a fascinating tale, told in a taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some mixture of the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible technological summary and Woolf does them justicewry anecdote. [[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf|Full Review]]}}<!-- Hailstone -->{{Frontpage|-author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Fritz and Kurt[[image:Hailstone_Berlin.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Confident Readers===[[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=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 We start with the city during this period. The images provide an insight into the changing nature pair of the divide between East brothers Fritz and West Berlin Kurt, and a glimpse into life their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in the city during the Cold War. [[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 1930s Vienna would want to 1966 by Allan Hailstone|Full Review]] <!-- Moorehead -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moorehead_Russian.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445667320?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445667320]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 a decade after do – kicking things around the end of empty market place, helping the Second World Warneighbours, he was basing his account on the premise that the Nazis' rise being dutiful when it comes to power in Germany was connected with the heritage that Lenin had left behind, synagogue choir and that without Stalin's assurances of support Hitler would never have dared to plunge the world into such at a devastating global conflictvocational school. 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 Kurt has to make sure the events of 1917. Much of his material came from German archives which were saved from destruction when the Third Reich was lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the brink of collapseSabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. These documents that But this is the German government would have kept private had they won time just before the war provided full detail on the attempts of their forebears Austrian leader is going to cave to pave the way for chaos Hitler's will, and revolution in their Asiatic neighbour.[[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 instead of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] Adrian Mourby has given us having a flying visit national vote to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of 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 in 1774 and it ushered Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the beginning round-ups of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearbyJews. The hotels we visit all began life These in different circumstances their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and each faced a different set sisters anxious to hear word of challenges. We begin in the Americas, move an evacuation to Britain or the United KingdomUS, circumnavigate Europewhile Fritz and his father are, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africaunknown initially to each other, India packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and Asiathe stone quarry there. Australia, it seems, does not go And us wondering how the titular event for the grand. [[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life adult variant of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby|Full Review]] <!-- Anderson -->all this could come about…|-| styleisbn="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]]024156574X}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"John Henry Phillips|title===[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen]]===The Search[[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;"|5[[image:Way_Tea.jpg|left|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]] History| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tea Gardens (BritainArchaeology cannot be child's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]play, [[:Category:History|History]] Tea Gardens really began in London when you're scraping in the late 18th century: a trip dirt looking to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to the country in those days. Men had their coffee housesfind what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but they were not places where women could or would always confident what. Archaeology must be seena fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. 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 This book is a case of choice for the nation. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Onlylatter, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went as our author promises 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;"|[[image:Stewart_Marches.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099581892?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099581892]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Marches by Rory Stewart]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] The Observer quote on locate the front topic of the paperback edition of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finesttitular search.And he really hasn'' Perhaps, but to call t made it travel writing easy for himself – the search area is to totally under-sell it. This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has a wide one, the background to do this: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both the Army and the Foreign Officetarget might not exist any more – oh, and then (to his fatherit'sunderwater, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Oh, and when he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002cannot dive. A walk along the Scottish borders should be Latching on to a doddle by comparison. [[The Marches by Rory Stewart|Full Review]] <!particular D-- 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="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[50 Things You Should Know About Day veteran through helping the Vikings by Philip Parker]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Childrenheroic old man's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]]visit back to France, [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:History|History]] The Vikings have got a lot to own up our author has promised to. A huge DNA study in 2014 was find the first thing landing craft that proved delivered him to the Orkney residents Normandy, and that they had Viking blood in their veins – they had been insisting it he was that of the Irish. The Vikings lucky to survive when it was that forced our English king's army to march sank 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 namebeneath him. There The secondary aim 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 erect a lot of places, from Greenland memorial to Kieveveryone else aboard, from Murmansk the vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises to Turkey and the Med, and someone in their misaligned history is well worth visiting – particularly on these pages. [[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parkernineties?|Full Review]]isbn=1472146182}}<!-- Maconie -->{{Frontpage|-isbn= B09F4CTKJR| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer[[image:MACONIE_lONG.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/1785030531/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Historical Fiction===[[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] It's the later stages of World War I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and the only thing I miss United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus 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 young American who has signed up because of someone else's review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffejoined the 17 Aero Squadron. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know of) to This company was the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''a whole matrix of events reducible first US Aero Squadron to one word like Aberfanbe trained in Canada, 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]] <!-- Kay -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kay Vintage.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445657511?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445657511]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] Over the half century and more that I've been preparing meals on a regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something you did, first to an obsession akin be attached to a religion. My first kitchen had nothing in the way of luxury - it was there to make meals as nutritiously RAF and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not quite state of the art, but it's equipped first to a high standard and is a pleasure be sent into the skies to work fight the Germans inactive combat. But what of all the equipment which went beforethat can happen, which paved the way Petrol has to what we have now? Emma Kay is going to give you a quick trip through master flying the historynotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. [[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay|Full Review]]}}<!-- Rutherford -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0578761718| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver[[image:Rutherford_Landscape.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co4.uk/gp/product/1445669935?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445669935]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|History===[[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]] My first experience The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of a ''big'' garden was Versailles as a teenager and whilst I was impressedLondon from at least 1181, I didn't really like when itwas first mentioned in records. Sadly, I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by the flatness original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of it allLondon in 1666. 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 rebuilt in Portland stone from a day to be corralled into design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the housefire and then survived for centuries until World War II, so I wandered when it was again ruined by bombs during the gardens and found they were delightfulBlitz. I felt uplifted. Then But that wasn't the end of its story: after a cricket match at Stowe gave me phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the opportunity church's walls were transported to walk Fulton, Missouri. There, in the grounds for over an hour. I of Westminster College, the church was completely won over rebuilt and today serves as a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity memorial to put him in contextWinston Churchill. [[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford|Full Review]]}}<!-- Hayward -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1784385166| styletitle="widthThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|A Material History of Nazi Germany[[image:Hayward New.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1442279419?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1442279419]] Roger Moorhouse| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"5|genre===[[Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook by Vicky Hayward]]===History[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] In 1745 a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published What is the first edition of his ''New Art image that comes to mind when you think of Cookery, Drawn From the School of Economic Experience''. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The style was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimed, not at those who could afford gate to cook on a grand scale, concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbers. Whilst they are emblematic of the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination of flavours and aromasThird Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. Spices are used conservatively and the bluntness of But some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle objects and we see influences images from Altamiras' own region, Aragonthat time may be less familiar to you. In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the Iberian court and period of the New WorldThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts. [[Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook by Vicky Hayward|Full Review]]   <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --> |}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Philip MatyszakLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=24 Hours in Ancient RomeTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary= IIt was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she've d never been that interested in Ancient Romemet and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. Blame my teachers, or our oh-so-dry visits January was going to Roman villas be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with their earnest interpretation panelsoccasional forays abroad, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all discovering and telling the interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend themlandscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - 'Mea culpa'a free-range child on the farm', you might say. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours in Ancient Rome'', - and its claim to introduce readers learned to the real Ancient Rome by examining the lives of ordinary peoplespin, I decided it knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was high time to update my education. And the lovely artwork on the front cover made this book all the more appealingin her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438564</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon Bennett Connolly1789017977|title= Heroines of the Medieval Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after WorldWar II|author=Wendy Williams|rating= 54|genre= History|summary= Many women Ronnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have been born in medieval times left their mark on history1863, but as he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. For a rule they have been neglected by biographers while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and historians as there is too little surviving information for them five-year-old Ronnie had to have even brief biographies adjust to themselvesa very different lifestyle. Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1980891117|title=G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the problem by writing a general account on a broadly thematic basislife of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating=4.5|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>1445662647</amazonuk>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.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nathen Amin1789016304|title=The House War and Love: A family's testament of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crownanguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family name of Beaufort played a major part in British history 's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the fourteenth war years, but only five thousand survived and fifteenth centuriesMartin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. It therefore seems remarkable Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that little has been written about them until it did, but initial protests melted away as the appearance organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of this booktens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Josh Dean1908745819|title=The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in HistorySurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie

|summary=Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In February 1968 this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left the port author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula with herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a crew bad description of 98 submarinerswhere I am. The captain and executive officers were experienced: Add to that my love of the only factor giving cause for concern was that natural world, of those aspects of the crew had only recently returned to base poetic and were expecting a longer break lyrical that are about style not form, and were only back at sea because two sister ships substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had experienced mechanical problems and were unfit for combat controlsmy name on it. The Division Commander complained that the decision It was cruel and potentially recklesswritten for me. He It would be proved right - but not publicly - as K-129 went down with all hands in March 1968have found its way to me eventually. It was I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0857058320|title=Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating=4|genre=History|summary=''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a while before journey to uncover the sSoviet navy realised that it had author's lost one of its submarines ancestor's life and despite an extensive search they couldndeath. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco't find s forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of this book is whether itis possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445674742</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martyn Beardsley0008294011|title= Waterloo Voices 1815How to Lose a Country: The Battle at First Hand7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle of Waterloo, fought on A little while ago a midsummer day on 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 ''Discuss the factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a muddy field in Belgium, brought an end good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to two decades of war . I think now that I do know. We are in Europe. As one danger of the pivotal events losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of the nineteenth centurya better one, it has inevitably been the focus of many accounts over particularly as the last two hundred years'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</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>