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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 -->|-Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. He has chosen to tell us about the short, but explosive, history of the Control Data Company, CDC, for whom he worked. It's a fascinating tale, told in a mixture of technological summary and wry anecdote. }}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Fritz and Kurt[[image:Woolf_Great.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985880?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985880]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Confident Readers|summary===[[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales We start with the pair of Exploration by Jo Woolf]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]]brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into helping 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 neighbours, being dutiful when it is like comes to be faced with the most terrible conditions synagogue choir and still have the determination and grit at a vocational school. Kurt has to carry make sure the lamps are turned on. This book could be viewed at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some 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 most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does Nazis out, invite them justicein with open arms. [[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Exploration by Jo Woolf|Full Review]] <!-- Hailstone -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hailstone_BerlinJews. These in 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 each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there.jpg And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|leftisbn=024156574X}}{{Frontpage|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ieJohn Henry Phillips|title=UTF8&tagThe Search|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"History|summary===[[Berlin Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in the Cold War: 1959 dirt looking to 1966 by Allan Hailstone]]=== [[image:4starfind what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]]Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of the latter, [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] ''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by as our author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits promises to locate the city during this period. The images provide an insight into the changing nature topic of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the city during search area is a wide one, the Cold Wartarget might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. [[Berlin in Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the Cold War: 1959 heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to 1966 by Allan Hailstone|Full Review]] <!-- Moorehead -->|-Normandy, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"1472146182}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title= Flights for Freedom[[image:Moorehead_Russian.jpg|leftauthor= Steven Burgauer|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445667320?ie=UTF8&tag5|genre=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445667320]] Historical Fiction| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead]]=== [[image:4starIt'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.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 This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the end of first to be attached to the Second World War, he was basing his account on RAF and the premise that first to be sent into the Nazis' rise skies to power fight the Germans in Germany was connected with the heritage active combat. But before that Lenin had left behindcan happen, and that without Stalin's assurances of support Hitler would never have dared Petrol has to plunge master flying the world into such notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0578761718|title=The Inspiring History of a devastating global conflictSpecial Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating=4. It was his belief that America's post-war commitments 5|genre=History|summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in Europe and the Far EastCity of London from at least 1181, and other post-1945 developmentswhen it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, could also be traced back to the events of 1917. Much of his material came from German archives which were saved from destruction when the Third Reich original church was on destroyed in the brink Great Fire of collapseLondon in 1666. These documents that It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the German government would have kept private had they won fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the war provided full detail on Blitz. But that wasn't the attempts end of their forebears its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported to pave Fulton, Missouri. There, in the way for chaos grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and revolution in their Asiatic neighbourtoday serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill.[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead|Full Review]]}}<!-- Mourby -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1784385166| styletitle="widthThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse[[image:Mourby_Rooms.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782754]] History| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Rooms with 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 View: The Secret Life concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]=== [[image:4starthe Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to you.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]In this short volume, [[:Category:History|History]] Adrian Mourby Roger Moorhouse has given us a flying visit attempted to each illustrate the period of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions the Third Reich through one hundred of the world, with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by regionits material artefacts. }}{{Frontpage|author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, 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 be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a different set of challenges. We begin Ameziane and 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 in the Americassecond half of their teens has other priorities, move to you know. I certainly didn't know of the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia weeks of protests and Turkey then northern Africa, India hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and Asia. Australiathe birth of the Tank Man image, it seems, does not go for I didn't know how the grand. [[Rooms with area had long been a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourbyvenue for political protest, and 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 the whole season of protests back in 1989.|Full Review]]isbn=1684056993}}<!-- Anderson -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0648684806| styletitle="widthClara Colby: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday[[image:Anderson_Fantasyland.jpg|leftrating=4|linkgenre=https://www.amazonBiography|summary=The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA.co.uk/gp/product/1785038656?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag At the time she was just three-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785038656]]  | style="verticalyears-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen]]=== [[image:4starold but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] Instead, she remained with her grandparents, [[:Category:Politics who doted on her and Society|Politics saw that she received a good education, both in and Society]] Fantasyland covers the history out of America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detailschool. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints She was the conjuring of America only child in vivid reliefthe household and her childhood was glorious. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of the exhilarating gold rush to alternative factsUnited States and life was hard, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wit. [[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]]<br> <br> <!-- Way -->|-| style="widthas 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: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Way_Teashe was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived.jpg|left|link=https://www As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]]}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1783784350|title===[[Tea Gardens (This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating==5[[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:History|History]] Tea Gardens really began summary=It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in London in the late 18th century: a trip her office job, writing to Kings Cross or St Pancras people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was effectively going to be a trip to the country in those days. Men had their coffee houses, but they were not places where women could or time for making changes and she decided that she would be seen. Tea was introduced to England in travel the 17th century but it was not until 1784 that length and breadth of the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and tea became telling the drink story of choice for wool's history and how it had made and changed the nationlandscape. Until then She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Onlyfarm'' - and learned to spin, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see knit and weave from her mother and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea her mother's friend. This was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardensher blood. [[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way|Full Review]]}}<!-- Stewart -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1789017977| styletitle="widthRonnie and Hilda's Romance: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Towards a New Life after World War II[[image:Stewart_Marches.jpg|leftauthor=Wendy Williams|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099581892?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099581892]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"History|summary===[[The Marches by Rory Stewart]]=== [[image:5starRonnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[ There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate:Category:Travel|Travel]]he claimed to have been born in 1863, [[:Category:History|History]] The Observer quote on the front of but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. For a while the paperback edition of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhaps, family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to call it travel writing is adjust to totally under-sell ita very different lifestyle. This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has the background One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to do be well-turned-out and this: he had an international upbringing and followed would stay with him throughout his father in both life. He joined the Army and the Foreign Office, and then (to his father's, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Oh, and he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan army at eighteen in 2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison1942. [[The Marches by Rory Stewart|Full Review]]}}<!-- Parker -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1980891117| styletitle="widthG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"A year in the life of George Engleheart|[[image:Parker_50.jpgauthor=John Webley|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784937908?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784937908]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Art|summary===[[50 Things You Should Know About George Engleheart was one of the Vikings by Philip Parker]]=== [[image:4leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era.5starHe was also one of the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III).jpg|link=Category: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.}}{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Frontpage|isbn=1789016304|title=War and Love:Category:ChildrenA family's Non-Fictiontestament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Confident Readersauthor=Melanie Martin|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Historyrating=5|genre=History]] The Vikings have got a lot to own up |summary=Melanie Martin read about what happened to. A huge DNA study Dutch Jews in 2014 occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was the first thing that proved to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood entranced by what she discovered, particularly in their veins – they had been insisting it was that ''The Diary of the Irish. The Vikings it was Ann Frank'' but then realised that forced our English kingher own family's army to march stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasionthe city during the war years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to spend the next fortnight schlepping back to Hastings to try and fend off another – and happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Most people believed that the Normans had occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the same Norse origin as Germans might reach 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, city were convinced that they got to a lot of placeswould soon be pushed back, from Greenland that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to Kiev, from Murmansk to Turkey and escalate in the way that it did, but initial protests melted away as the Med, and their misaligned history is well worth visiting – particularly organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on these pages. [[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker|Full Review]] <!-- Maconie -->a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=1908745819| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Surfacing[[image:MACONIE_lONG.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785030531/refKathleen Jamie|rating=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie]]===History[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] I cancelled my they tell you ''Country Walking'this one has your name on it' 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 admitMostly 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. LetThat's be honest, though, I picked this one up because of someone else'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 the author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being 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 my history tooall, about connection. TangentiallyOf course, at leastthis book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly. [[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie|Full Review]]}}<!-- Kay -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0857058320| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)[[image:Kay Vintage.jpg|leftrating=4|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445657511?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445657511]] History| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay]]=== [[image:3''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death.5starCercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] Over Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the half century and more that Ibook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco've been preparing meals s forces. Cercas ruminates on a regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something you did, to an obsession akin to a religionwhy his uncle fought for this dictator. My first kitchen had nothing in The question at the way centre of luxury - this book is whether it was there is possible for his great uncle to make meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not quite state of be a hero whilst having fought for the art, but it's equipped to a high standard and is a pleasure to work inwrong side. But what of all the equipment which went before, which paved the way to what we have now? Emma Kay is going }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008294011|title=How to give you Lose a quick trip through the history. [[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay|Full Review]] <!-- Rutherford -->Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|-author=Ece Temelkuran| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|4.5[[image:Rutherford_Landscape.jpg|left|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445669935?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445669935]] History| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Landscape Gardens 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 Sarah Rutherford]]=== [[image:4starA level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to...jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]] My first experience of a ''big'' garden I agreed that she was Versailles as a teenager right and whilst I was impressed, I didnwasn't really like certain whether itwas a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by the flatness of it allthink now that I do know. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it was official: 's a flawed system I was off big gardens. It would be many years before I revised my opinion. On can't think of a trip to Harewood House it was too hot a day to be corralled into the housebetter one, so I wandered particularly as the gardens and found they were delightful. I felt uplifted. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me the opportunity to walk the grounds for over an hour. I was completely won over and a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah Rutherford'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him in context. [[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford|Full Review]] <!-- Hayward -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hayward New.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1442279419?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1442279419]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook by Vicky Hayward]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] In 1745 a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition of his ''New Art 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. The style was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and 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 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 aromas. Spices are used conservatively and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras' own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New World. [[Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook by Vicky Hayward|Full Review]] <!-- MATYSZAK -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Matysak_24.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782438564/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[24 Hours in Ancient Rome by Philip Matyszak]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] I've never been that interested in Ancient Rome. Blame my teachers, or our oh-so-dry visits to Roman villas with their earnest interpretation panels, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all the interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with the impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend them. ''Mea culpa'', you might say. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours in Ancient Rome'', and its claim to introduce readers to the real Ancient Rome by examining the lives of ordinary people, I decided it was high time to update my education. And the lovely artwork on the front cover made this book all the more appealing. [[24 Hours in Ancient Rome by Philip Matyszak|Full Review]] <!-- Connolly -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Connolly_Heroines.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445662647/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Heroines of the Medieval World by Sharon Bennett Connolly]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] Many women in medieval times left their mark on history, but as a rule they have been neglected by biographers and historians as there is too little surviving information for them to have even brief biographies to themselves. Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution to the problem by writing a general account on a broadly thematic basis. [[Heroines of the Medieval World by Sharon Bennett Connolly|Full Review]] <!-- Amin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Amin_House.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445647648/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown by Nathen Amin]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The family name of Beaufort played a major part in British history during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It therefore seems remarkable that little has been written about them until this present volume. [[The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown by Nathen Amin|Full Review]] <!-- Dean -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dean_K129.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445674742/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in History by Josh Dean]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] In February 1968 the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left the port of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula with a crew of 98 submariners. The captain and executive officers were experienced: the only factor giving cause for concern was that the crew had only recently returned to base and were expecting a longer break and were only back at sea because two sister ships had experienced mechanical problems and were unfit for combat patrols. The Division Commander complained that the decision was cruel and potentially reckless. He would be proved right - but not publicly - as K-129 went down with all hands in March 1968. It was a while before the Soviet navy realised that it had lost one of its submarines and despite an extensive search they couldn't find it. [[The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in History by Josh Dean|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --> |} {{newreview|author= Martyn Beardsley|title= Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First Hand|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle of Waterloo, fought on a midsummer day on a muddy field in Belgium, brought an end to two decades of war in Europeteeth. As one of the pivotal events of the nineteenth century, it has inevitably been the focus of many accounts over the last two hundred years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>

 {{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>

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|summary=In The basic facts about the week I write thisdeaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, Trump has come under fire for not condemning fascistic behaviour in America from some Neo-Nazis. It strikes me that of which were deliberately obscured at the ''Neo-'' is a pointless dignification – yestime for various reasons, they cannot be deemed to follow Hitler precisely as he's have long dead and burnt, so they're kind of new, but common sense obliges me to just call them Nazissince been established. Their excuse is they feel America has been invaded by For the enemy – but what if you were indeed under occupation? Could you see yourself working for last few months of their lives in Russia the forces that had indeed invaded you? The author begins by pointing out that several countries were invaded by the Nazisformer Tsar and Tsarina, their children and they have different feelings about the people who worked against the commonly-few remaining servants were held nationalistic aimin increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. France hates her collaboratorsTo prevent them from being rescued, but just north of in July 1918 the border things are different – revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to death in circumstances which, once the picture is a lot more muddy as a resultnews was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>