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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|leftrating=4|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985880?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985880]] Confident Readers| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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, helping the neighbours, [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into being dutiful when it comes to the lives synagogue choir and achievements of some amazingly brave peopleat a vocational school. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of Kurt has to make sure the mysteries of lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the wildest parts of our world, Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and also given us an understanding of what it workmanlike as a light switch. But this is like to be faced with the most terrible conditions and still have time just before the determination Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and grit instead of having a national vote to carry on. This book could be viewed as a taster which encourages us to seek keep the Nazis out and read more about some of the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does , invite them justicein with open arms. [[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf|Full Review]] <! 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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.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|isbn=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]]024156574X}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"John Henry Phillips|title=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 as our author promises to locate the topic of the Cold War: 1959-1966titular search. And he really hasn'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to t made it easy for himself – the city during this period. The images provide an insight into search area is a wide one, the changing nature of the divide between East target might not exist any more – oh, and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in the city during the Cold Warit's underwater, when he cannot dive. [[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 Latching on to 1966 by Allan Hailstone|Full Review]] <!a particular D-- Moorehead -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moorehead_RussianDay veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to 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.jpg|leftWho else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445667320?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445667320]]1472146182}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR| styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5|genre==[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead]]===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 historiansIt's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Only Petrol Petronus is a decade after young American who has signed up and joined the end of 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the Second World Warfirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, he was basing his account on the premise that first to be attached to the RAF and the 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 a devastating global conflictnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. It was his belief that America's post-war commitments in Europe and the Far East, and other post-1945 developments, could also be traced back to the events }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0578761718|title=The Inspiring History of 1917a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating=4. Much 5|genre=History|summary=The church of his material came St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from German archives which were saved from destruction at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, 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 the war provided full detail on the attempts of their forebears to pave the way fire and then survived for chaos and revolution in their Asiatic neighbourcenturies until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz.[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead|Full Review]] <!-- Mourby -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-alignBut that wasn't the end of its story: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mourby_Roomsafter a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported to Fulton, Missouri.jpg|left|link=https://wwwThere, in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782754]]}}{{Frontpage|isbn=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 What is the first image that comes to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions mind when you think of the world, with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to give something of an overall picture. So what makes a hotel 'grand'concentration camp? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning None of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances 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 United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asiaperiod of the Third 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Fantasyland covers 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 history of America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detailpeople involved on either side. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the conjuring whole season of America protests back in vivid relief1989. 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]]isbn=1684056993<br> <br>}} <!-- Way -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0648684806| styletitle="widthClara Colby: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday[[image:Way_Tea.jpg|leftrating=4|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ieBiography|summary=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tea Gardens (BritainThe path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[image:4starlife was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, [[:Category:History|History]] Tea Gardens really began both in London and out of school. She was the only child in the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras household and her childhood was effectively a trip to the country in those daysglorious. Men By contrast, her family had their coffee houses, but they were not places where women could or would be seen. Tea was introduced to England become pioneer farmers in the 17th century but it mid-west of the United States and life was not until 1784 that the high duty hard, as Clara was reduced from 119% to 12½% find out when she and tea became her grandparents eventually went to join the drink of choice for the nationfamily. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where Clara would this beverage be drunk? One answer only know her mother for a few months: she was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served died in places such as Ranelagh Gardenschildbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening. [[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way|Full Review]]}}<!-- Stewart -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1783784350| styletitle="widthThis Golden Fleece: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter[[image:Stewart_Marches.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099581892?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099581892]] History| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The Marches by Rory Stewart]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] The Observer quote on job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the front story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the paperback edition of Stewartlandscape. She's latest book observes d grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - ''This is travel writing at its finest.a free-range child on the farm'' Perhaps- and learned to spin, but to call it travel writing is to totally under-sell itknit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This is erudition at its finestwas in her blood. Stewart has the background to do this}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789017977|title=Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Ronnie Williams was the Army son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and the Foreign Office, and then (to his fatherEthel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry'sbirthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Oh, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002might well have shaved a few years off his age. A walk along For a while the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison. [[The Marches by Rory Stewart|Full Review]] <!family was quite well-to- Parker do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and five-year->|old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-| style="width: 10%; verticalturned-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Parker_50out and this would stay with him throughout his life.jpg|left|link=https://www He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.amazon.co.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;"1980891117|title===[[50 Things You Should Know About G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the Vikings by Philip Parker]]life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating== [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-FictionArt|Children's Non-Fiction]]summary=George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:History|History]] The Vikings have got a lot to own up towith a career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. A huge DNA study in 2014 He was also one of the first thing that proved to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood in their veins – they had been insisting it was that most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of the IrishKing George III). The Vikings it was Throughout most of that forced our English king's army to march from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasiontime he carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, only and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred 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 lothis fee book.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789016304|title=War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, 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. 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[[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker|Full Review]] <!-- Maconie -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:MACONIE_lONGin ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating.jpg|link=http://wwwA hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785030531/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it did, but initial protests melted away as the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's columnorganisers became more circumspect. His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie It's an equally sharp intellect and atrocity on a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Let's be honest, though, I picked this one vast scale but made up because of someone else's review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffetens of thousands of individual tragedies. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know of) to the Jarrow Crusade but }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1908745819|title=Surfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Sometimes when he talks about it being ''people suggest that you read a whole matrix of events reducible to one word like Aberfancertain book, Hillsborough, or Orgreavethey tell you '' then somehow this one has your name on it does become part of my history too''. TangentiallyMostly we take them at their word, at least. [[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie|Full Review]] <!-- Kay -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kay Vintageor not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the book.jpg|left|link=https://wwwThat's a rare experience.amazonPeople who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong.coIn this case, I was told why.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 The blurb speaks of the author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of where I am.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] Over Add to that my love of the natural world, of those aspects of the half century poetic and more lyrical that I've been preparing meals on a regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something you didare about style not form, to an obsession akin to a religionand substance most of all, about connection. My first kitchen Of course, this book had nothing in the way of luxury - my name on it . It was there to make meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not quite state of the art, but it's equipped written for me. It would have found its way to a high standard and is a pleasure me eventually. I am pleased to work inhave it fall onto my path so quickly. But what of all the equipment which went before, which paved the way to what we have now? Emma Kay is going to give you a quick trip through the history. [[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay|Full Review]]}}<!-- Rutherford -->{{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:Rutherford_Landscape.jpg|leftrating=4|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445669935?ieHistory|summary=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445669935]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford]]=== [[image:4star''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]] My first experience of a ''big'Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' garden was Versailles as a teenager and whilst I was impressedgreat uncle, I didnis the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco't really like its forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by The question at the flatness centre of this book is whether it all. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardens. It would is possible for his great uncle to be many years before I revised my opiniona hero whilst having fought for the wrong side. On a trip to Harewood House it was too hot }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008294011|title=How to Lose a day Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to be corralled into the house, so I wandered the gardens and found they were delightfulDictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating=4. I felt uplifted. Then 5|genre=History|summary=A little while ago a cricket match at Stowe gave friend asked me the opportunity if I thought that we were living through what in years to walk the grounds for over an hourcome would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to... '' I agreed that she was completely won over right and wasn't certain whether it was a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah Rutherfordgood or bad thing that we didn's ''Landscape Gardenst know what all 'this' was an opportunity leading to put him in context. [[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford|Full Review]] <!-- Hayward -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hayward NewI think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1442279419?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1442279419]]}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align1788037812|title=The Fraternity of the Estranged: top; textThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-align: left;"1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=5|genre=History|summary=[[Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook by Vicky Hayward]]=== [[image:4starOriginally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] In 1745 a Spanish friary cookBut during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, Juan Altamiras, published three books on the first edition nature of his ''New Art of Cookeryhomosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, Drawn From the School of Economic Experience''as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables Exploring the margins of society and desserts. The style studying homosexuality was informalcommon on the European Continent, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimedbut barely talked about in the UK, not at those who could afford so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to cook on a grand scalethe scientific understanding of homosexuality, but at those with more modest budgetsand beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, who sometimes needed leading to cook for large numbers. Whilst the ingredients were milestone legalisation of same- for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination of flavours and aromassex relationships in 1967. Spices are used conservatively }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1910593508|title=Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking Mike Collins|rating=5|genre=History|summary=This incredible graphic novel is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle a love letter to the Moon landings and we see influences from Altamiras' own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and passion for the New Worldsubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. [[Juan Altamiras' New Art This is a story we know well and because 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_24this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book.jpg|link=http://www.amazonIf you've 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.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. 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. [[Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First Hand by Martyn Beardsley|Full Review]] <!-- Duxbury-Neumann -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Neumann_What.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445664860/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great Britain by Susan Duxbury-Neumann]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some time to provide a full answer, and this slim but useful volume does so very well. 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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>