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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|left And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]]024156574X}}{{Frontpage|author=John Henry Phillips| styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"The Search|rating=5|genre=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 author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits as our author 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 1966 by Allan Hailstone|Full Review]] <!-- Moorehead -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moorehead_Russianfind the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazonThe secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perished.co.uk/gp/product/1445667320Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode|isbn=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445667320]]1472146182}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"B09F4CTKJR|title=Flights for Freedom|author=Steven Burgauer|rating=[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead]]==4.5|genre=Historical Fiction [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The author was writing from a slightly different stance from most other historians. Only a decade after the end It's the later stages of the Second World War, he was basing his account on I and the premise that United States has just entered the Nazis' rise conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to power be trained in Germany was connected with Canada, the first to be attached to the heritage that Lenin had left behind, RAF and that without Stalin's assurances of support Hitler would never have dared the first to be sent into the skies to plunge fight the world into such a devastating global conflictGermans in active combat. It was his belief But before that America's post-war commitments in Europe and the Far East, and other post-1945 developments, could also be traced back to the events of 1917can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. Much of his material came from German archives which were saved from destruction when the Third Reich was on the brink }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0578761718|title=The Inspiring History of collapsea Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating=4. These documents that the German government would have kept private 5|genre=History|summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had they won the war provided full detail on existed in the attempts City of their forebears to pave the way for chaos and revolution London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in their Asiatic neighbourrecords.[[The Russian Revolution Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Alan Moorehead|Full Review]] <!-- Mourby -->|-| style="widthSir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn't the end of its story: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mourby_Rooms.jpg|left|link=https://wwwafter a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported to Fulton, Missouri.amazonThere, in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill.co.uk/gp/product/1785782754?ie}}{{Frontpage|isbn=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782754]] 1784385166| styletitle="vertical-alignThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: top; text-align: left;"A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating=5|genre==[[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]===History[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions What is the first image that comes to mind when you think 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'Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The first hotel gate 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 nearbyconcentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances But some objects and each faced a different set of challengesimages from that time may be less familiar to you. We begin in the AmericasIn this short volume, move Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the period of the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and AsiaThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts. Australia }}{{Frontpage|author=Lun Zhang, it seemsAdrien Gombeaud, does not go for the grand. [[Rooms with a ViewAmeziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=Tiananmen 1989: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby|Full Review]] <!-- Anderson -->Our Shattered Hopes|-rating=4.5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Graphic Novels[[image:Anderson_Fantasyland.jpg|left|linksummary=https://wwwI never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know.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 I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the 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. This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.jpg|linkisbn=Category:1684056993}}{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Frontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=Clara Colby:Category:HistoryThe International Suffragist|History]], [[:Category:Politics and Societyauthor=John Holliday|Politics and Society]]rating=4|genre=BiographyFantasyland covers the history of America from 1517 |summary=The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to 2017 in awesome detailthe USA. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints At the conjuring time she was just three-years-old but because of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicianssome childhood ailment, the exhilarating gold rush she wasn't allowed to alternative factssail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, seminal episodes are explored who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in forensic detail with razor sharp witand out of school. [[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]]<br> <br> <! She was the only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-- Way -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Way_Teawest 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.jpg|left|link=https Clara would only know her mother for a few months://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]]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.}}{{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|genre=History [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, [[:Category:History|History]] Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century: a trip writing to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to the country in those dayspeople she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. Men had their coffee houses, but they were The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not places where women could or would be seensoothe her mind. Tea January was introduced going to England in be a time for making changes and she decided that she would 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 the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went farm'' - and learned to see spin, knit and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea weave from her mother and 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|author=Wendy Williams[[image:Stewart_Marches.jpg|leftrating=4|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099581892?ieHistory|summary=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099581892]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-alignRonnie 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: left;"|===[[The Marches by Rory Stewart]]=== [[image:5starhe claimed to have been born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] The Observer quote on For a while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the front of the paperback edition of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle.'' Perhaps, but One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to call it travel writing is to totally underbe well-turned-sell it. This is erudition at its finestout and this would stay with him throughout his life. Stewart has He joined the background to do this: he had an international upbringing and followed his father army at eighteen in 1942.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1980891117|title=G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in both the Army and the Foreign Office, and then (to his father's, bemusement, shall we say) became an MPlife of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating=4. Oh, and he walked 6,000 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 -->5|-genre=Art| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Parker_50George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazonHe was also one of the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III).coThroughout 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.uk/gp/product/1784937908?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784937908]]}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1789016304|title===[[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker]]=== [[imageWar and Love:4.5star.jpgA family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|linkauthor=Category:{{{Melanie Martin|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction=5|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:genre=History|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 was the first thing that proved to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was 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 happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to try and fend off another – and 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 lotcity were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, hence that the name. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the coast – way that has a Viking longship on its signpostit did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. Yes, they got to It's an atrocity on a lot vast scale but made up of tens of thousands 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 Parkerindividual tragedies.}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]]isbn=1908745819|title=Surfacing<!-- Maconie -->|author=Kathleen Jamie|-rating=5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|History[[image:MACONIE_lONG.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwSometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''.amazonMostly 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.coThat's a rare experience.uk/dp/1785030531/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie]]=== [[image:5starPeople who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]In this case, [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] I cancelled my was told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering ''Country Walkingan older, less tethered sense of herself.'' magazine subscription about Older. Less tethered. That's not a year ago and the only thing bad description of where I miss is Stuart Maconie's columnam. His down-Add to-earth approach that my love of the natural world, of those aspects of the poetic and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect lyrical that are about style not form, and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admitsubstance most of all, about connection. Let's be honest, thoughOf course, I picked this one up because of someone else's review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffebook had my name on it. Places I grew up inIt was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. Like Maconie I am pleased to have no connection it fall onto my path so quickly.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0857058320|title=Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (that I know oftranslator) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being |rating=4|genre=History|summary=''Lord Of All the Dead''is a whole matrix of events reducible journey to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreaveuncover the author's lost ancestor' then somehow it does become part of my history toos life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. TangentiallyManuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, at leastis the figure who looms large over the book. [[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie|Full Review]] <!-- Kay -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kay VintageHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces.jpg|left|link=https://wwwCercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator.amazonThe question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side.co.uk/gp/product/1445657511?ie}}{{Frontpage|isbn=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445657511]] 0008294011| styletitle="vertical-alignHow to Lose a Country: top; text-align: left;"The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating=4.5|genre==[[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay]]===History [[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] Over the half century and more A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that Iwe were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question 've been preparing meals on a regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something you did, Discuss the factors which led to an obsession akin to a religion. My first kitchen had nothing in the way of luxury - ..'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was there to make meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not quite state of the art, but ita good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this's equipped to a high standard and is a pleasure was leading to work in. But what of all the equipment which went before, which paved the way to what we have I think now? Emma Kay is going to give you a quick trip through the historythat 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, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth. [[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay|Full Review]]}}<!-- Rutherford -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1788037812| styletitle="widthThe Fraternity of the Estranged: 10%; verticalThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-align: top; text-align: center;"1908|author=Brian Anderson[[image:Rutherford_Landscape.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445669935?ieHistory|summary=UTF8&tag=thebookbagOriginally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445669935]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Landscape Gardens sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by Sarah Rutherford]]=== [[imagetwo homosexual men:4starEdward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]] My first experience Exploring the margins of a ''big'' garden was Versailles as a teenager society and whilst I studying homosexuality was impressedcommon on the European Continent, I didn't really like it. I felt stifled but barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and strangely underwhelmed by equality, leading to the flatness milestone legalisation of it all. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardens. It would be many years before I revised my opinion. On a trip to Harewood House it was too hot a day to be corralled into the house, so I wandered 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'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]] <!-- Beardsley -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Beardsley_Waterloo.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445660164/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First Hand by Martyn Beardsley]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The battle of Waterloo, fought on a midsummer day on a muddy field in Belgium, brought an end to two decades of war in Europe. 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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>