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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]==History==__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Darnton1785633457|title=The Case for BooksCharging Around: Past, Present, and Future|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Reading a book, whether for study or relaxation, in Exploring the sitting room, in bed, on public transport, or almost anywhere else, has been one Edges of everybody's favourite activities for many a long year, and not just England by visitors and contributors to this site. (Therein lies a paradox, I hear you say). As Darnton points out in his introduction, the good old-fashioned book was not destroyed by newspapers (or magazines, for that matter), any more than television destroyed radio, or the internet made people abandon TV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>158648902X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewElectric Car|author=John Keegan|title=The American Civil War|rating=4|genre=History|summary=While before reading this book I considered myself to be vaguely familiar with the major facts about the American Civil War – the fight to liberate the slaves, the well-known battles, and the towering figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S Grant, and Robert E Lee – I was keen to learn more about the war and get an in-depth view of it from a renowned historian. After finishing the book, I certainly consider myself to be far better informed on the military, and tactical, side of things, but found it a little lacking in certain other areas such as the causes and effects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712616101</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Howarth|title=We Die AloneClive Wilkinson

|genre=BiographyTravel|summary=Consider taking Clive Wilkinson has a five day sail in history of travelling by unconventional means with a small fishing boat the height of the North Sea from Shetland, to try and establish, train and supply some potentially vital anti-German resistance in the far, far north of occupied Norway, your homelandpreference for slow travel. Imagine As he neared his eightieth birthday the sight idea of heavy naval parades where you intended to land, as galling proof that your intel is ages out of date. Ponder too the fact that you get reported to exploring the Nazis due to the most ridiculous slight edges of fortune. All your colleagues are dead or captured, your equipment blown up with your trawler to keep it safe from Jerry hands, half your big toe has been shot off, and you're forced to go on the run England in one of Europe's last, and coldest, wildernesses. And you have no idea whatsoever quite how bad this scenario is going to get.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847678459</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Norman Rose|title=A Senseless Squalid War: Voices From Palestine 1890s - 1948|rating=5|genre=History|summary=The reappearance of ''A Senseless, Squalid War'' in paperback will afford wider access to the balanced and detailed scholarship of Prof Norman Stone. This is a sad story of the Palestinian Mandate retold through the viewpoints of politicians and proponents; Arab, Jewish, British, French, German and American. It energetically conveys an understanding of the character of figures as disparate as David Ben Gurion, Richard Crossman, Haj Amin and David Lloyd George. Organisations, conferences and sticking points are deftly expounded. It does electric car was not lose sight the overarching motives and machinations of International Politicstotally outrageous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845950798</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Addison|title=No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-War Britain|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=In the opening chapter Addisonfact, it should be a child of the 1940s, starts by comparing the leaders of the peacetime administrations that did most to change the face of Britain after 1945. The first, Clement Attlee, was a modest, unassuming, even uncharismatic personality, yet he still led a genuinely radical pleasant holiday for Clive and reforming government. As the second, his admirer Margaret Thatcherwife, would point out in her memoirsJoan, not only did he achieve a great deal, but he did so because of, or perhaps despite, being all substance and no show.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192192671</amazonuk>shouldn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan GreenB09BLBP3P8|title=Murder in the High HimalayaNeville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager

|summary=''The Hound of Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the Baskervilles'' is one popular imagination of the most famous mystery novels early days of allWorld War II from 1939-40, and also one of known as the most famous English novels set in Devon''Phoney War''. This alone would probably give more or less enough material for an entire book on connections between the story We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, and Churchill coming in to save the location which inspired itday. Yet the authors have found several more links between the county, Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and Conan Doyle alongside those associated with him. The result has revealed much information of which even Iyet, who have lived as Frederic Seager argues in the county nearly all my lifethis book, it was previously unawareof vital significance in how the war played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312861</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Diski3756228711|title=CDC: The Sixtieshappy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer

|summary=In the last few years, there have been many books ''The history of varying length about the 60s. Most development of them are relatively self-contained histories IT could fill books of the decade, often fairly liberal in adopting their signposts as to when the era began and endedseveral hundred pages. (Blame Philip Larkin's famous poem for the confusion, I hear you say).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680042</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Charlotte Moore|title=Hancox|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=Hancox Author Hans Bodmer is the large imposing house in rural Sussex where Charlotte Moore was brought up, and where she still livesquite right about that. Although its origins are not fully documented, according He has chosen to local records it certainly existed by tell us about the mid-15th centuryshort, its name probably derived from that of John Handcocksbut explosive, one of the early owners. In what is basically part family history and part biography of the house itselfControl Data Company, the author traces its story back to lawyer John DountonCDC, the first owner about for whom nothing substantial is known, who made extensive alterations to it in 1569he worked. It then passed through the hands of several families until her ancestors acquired it in 1888. In 1900 one of them let it to the Church of England Temperance Society as 's a drying-out house for 'inebriates'fascinating tale, but the arrangement was terminated told in 1907 a mixture of technological summary and the family moved back inwry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670915866</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances WoodsfordJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Dear Mr Bigelow: A Transatlantic FriendshipFritz and Kurt

|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=Meet Mister Bigelow. He's elderly, living alone on Long Island, New York, We start with some health problems but more than enough family the pair of brothers Fritz and friends to get him byKurt, and still a very active interest their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in yachting1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, regattas helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and moreat a vocational school. Meet, too, Frances WoodsfordKurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. SheBut this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's reaching middle-agewill, living with her brother and mum in Bournemouth, and working for instead of having a national vote to keep the local baths as organiser of eventsNazis out, office lackey and moreinvite them in with open arms. I suggest you do meet them''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, although neither ever met as did all the otherround-ups of Jews. Despite this they kept up a brisk These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and lively conversation about all aspects sisters anxious to hear word of lifean evacuation to Britain or the US, from the late 1940s until while Fritz and his death at father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the beginning of same train to Buchenwald and the 60sstone quarry there. And as a result comes us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this book, of heavily edited highlights, which opens up a world of social history and entertaining diary-style comment.could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099542293</amazonuk>024156574X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter AckroydJohn Henry Phillips|title=Venice: Pure CityThe Search|rating=45

|summary=Among Peter AckroydArchaeology cannot be child's recent works are 'biographiesplay, when you' re scraping in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of London and the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic of the river Thamestitular search. Now And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he gives similar treatment cannot dive. Latching on to Venice, basically a history but enlivened with his elegantparticular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, literary styleour author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and what that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a previous reviewer has called his love memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of 'psychogeographical investigation'whom perished.xWho else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099422565</amazonuk>1472146182

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benedict GummerB09F4CTKJR|title=The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British IslesFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|genre=HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary=The mid-fourteenth century was an unsettled time for England. It was an age which saw 's the first phases later stages of the protracted Hundred Years’ World War with France, I and the Scottish war of independence, which came to an end with United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the capture of King David II17 Aero Squadron. As if these events were not enough, in 1346 there This company was the first case of a man US Aero Squadron to be trained in Europe contracting an unknown disease that rapidly swept across Canada, the continent, claiming first to be attached to the lives of millions, RAF and one medieval chronicler noted the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that 'can happen, Petrol has to master flying the bodies looked like a macabre lasagne: corpses piled row upon row separated only by layers of dirt'notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548836</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Beard0578761718|title=The ParthenonInspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver

|summary=Despite The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the proliferation Great Fire of populist historians London in 1666. It was rebuilt in print Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and on televisionthen survived for centuries until World War II, Professor Mary Beard continues when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported to be a voice apartFulton, Missouri. Her conversational style There, in the grounds of writing belies Westminster College, the academic research at its heart. This is serious history written as engagingly church was rebuilt and today serves as a detective storymemorial to Winston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683491</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Beaumont1784385166|title=The Secret Life Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse

|genre=Politics and SocietyHistory|summary=Peter Beaumont What is the Foreign Affairs editor at The Observer. He joined the paper in 1989 and has spent much first image that comes to mind when you think of the intervening time dealing with the kind Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of 'foreign affairs' that is better described as 'war reporting'. 'The Secret Life these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of Warthe Third Reich' is a distillation of his years s fascist regime in the fieldall its iniquity. It is a book ill-served by both its title But some objects and its coverimages from that time may be less familiar to you. In this short volume, except maybe insofar as both might serve Roger Moorhouse has attempted to sneak it onto illustrate the period of the bookshelves Third Reich through one hundred of those who really need to read it, but probably wouldn't choose to do so were it more accurately wrappedits material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520982</amazonuk> 

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick BarrattLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=Lost Voices from the TitanicTiananmen 1989: The Definitive Oral HistoryOur Shattered Hopes

|genre=HistoryGraphic Novels|summary=As Barratt points I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the opening pagessecond half of their teens has other priorities, there are literally thousands you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of titles available about protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the sinking birth of the TitanicTank Man image, at the time I didn't know how the largestarea had long been a venue for political protest, most expensive and most luxurious ship ever builtI didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. His aim This book is practically flawless in this volume is to bridge the gap between another forensic examination of how it sank, and yet another re-run of what he calls giving a general browser's context for the familiar stories whole season of heroism and tragedy from literature protests back in the public domain to provide the human story behind the disaster1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848091516</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stefan Klein0648684806|title=Leonardo's LegacyClara Colby: How Da Vinci Reinvented the WorldThe International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating=54

|summary=This excellent combination The path of science history and biography starts Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with the most populist her parents and some of the most awkwardly scientificthree brothers. Basically it throws modern-day science at the Mona LisaInstead, which you might think is a little unfair – can she cope remained with being analysedher grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of school. She was the neuroscience we now know used only child in interpreting the household and her? childhood was glorious. Of course she can – she’s By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the world’s bestmid-known masterpiece west of Italian artthe United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and she’s survived much worseher grandparents eventually went to join the family. Klein’s approach fully worksClara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, when we see also seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the science da Vinci did know eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and that he worked on himself, which all helps us know partly why the truths of La Gioconda are still unknowableWisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306818256</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert McCrum1783784350|title=GlobishThis Golden Fleece: How the English Language Became the WorldA Journey Through Britain's LanguageKnitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=3.5

|summary=We British tend It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to forget just how insignificant we are.  Tiny geographicallypeople she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. Tiny in populationThe job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. Tiny, whatever we tell ourselvesJanuary 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, on discovering and telling the world stage. Yet our language is spoken in various forms worldwide by approximately four billion people; about a third story of the worldwool's populationhistory and how it had made and changed the landscape. How did She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - ''thata free-range child on the farm''- and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother' happen? s friend. This is what Robert McCrum attempts to explainwas in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670916404</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bernhard Schlink1789017977|title=Guilt About the PastRonnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams

|genre=Politics and SocietyHistory|summary=Consider, if you will, guilt. You might have it tainting you, as 'beyond the perpetrators, every person who stands in solidarity with them and maintains solidarity after Ronnie Williams was the fact becomes entangled'. The link might not strictly be a legal one, but concern 'norms son of religion and morals, etiquette and custom Thomas Henry Williams (known as well as day-to-day communications Harry) and interactions'. Hence a collective guilt like no other - that witnessed in GermanyEthel Wall. There'The assumption that membership s some doubt as to a people engenders solidarity is something Germans of my generation do whether or not easily like they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to accept', we read. However difficult it might have been back then born in its day1863, Germany had to physically renounce anything to do with Nazism, to actively 'opt-out' of connections to avoid the solidarity seen connecting the whole nation like but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a toxic spider webfew years off his age. And since then it's linked in all the children, in For a ''bequeathal'' of guilt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905636776</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sara Wheeler|title=The Magnetic North: Travels in while the Arctic|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=The title of this book suggests another travel book about adventure family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the frozen north, but Sara Wheeler mixes her tales of her own travels with some history of polar exploration 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a serious examination of the impact of visitors and of those who wish to exploit the Arctic’s natural resources on the region and its peoplevery different lifestyle. Rather than setting off on another expedition One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to reach the North Pole, she travels around bits of the Arctic divided between different countries be well-turned-out and governments, including Chukotka (Russia), Alaska (USA), Canada, Greenland, Svalbard (Norway) and Lapland (Russia and Scandinavia)this would stay with him throughout his life. There is a huge amount of material in He joined the book but Wheeler organises and presents it army at eighteen in a very readable, accessible style1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516888</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ronald Skirth and Duncan Barrett1980891117|title=The Reluctant TommyG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: An Extraordinary Memoir A year in the life of the First World WarGeorge Engleheart|author=John Webley

|genre=AutobiographyArt|summary=Ronald Skirth George Engleheart was one of many young Englishmen the leading portrait miniaturists of nineteen caught up in Georgian London, with a career lasting from the First World War1770s to the Regency era. He joined was also one of the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1916most prolific, was promoted to Corporalpainting nearly 5, and sent to the western front. Like most 000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of his contemporaries, when he went he was an unquestioning servant them being of King and country, fighting for what he believed was rightGeorge III). On the battlefields Throughout most of Flanders, one day that time he came across carefully recorded the body names of Hans, a German soldier the same age, if not younger. The dead man's hand was clutching a photograph each of his girlfriendclients, who could almost have been the twin sister of Ella, Skirth's own sweetheart. Like two of and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his friends who had just been killed, Hans had died as a result of the stupidity of othersfee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023074673X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juliet Nicolson1789016304|title=The Great SilenceWar and Love: 1918-1920 Living A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in the Shadow of the Great War occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=45

|summary=As the author says Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in her introductionoccupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, the particularly in 'great silence' The Diary of the title was Ann Frank'' but then realised that which followed her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the 'incessant thunder' of city during the Great War. There are three crucial dates in her narrativewar years, all specific days but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in three successive Novembersa country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. The first was when Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the guns fell silent in 1918city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, the second was that of the first two-minute silence Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in memory of the fallen one year laterway that it did, and the third was when but initial protests melted away as the Unknown Soldier was lowered into silence beneath the floor in Westminster Abbey, another year onorganisers became more circumspect. These act as It's an atrocity on a framework around which she tells the story vast scale but made up of the silence tens of grief which affected everyone in various ways during the first two years thousands of peaceindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719562562</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Griffiths1908745819|title=The Lotus QuestSurfacing|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Mark Griffiths is one of Britain's leading plant experts. I know this because his brief biog in the front of The Lotus Quest tells me so; just as it tells me that he is the editor of The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening 'the largest work on horticulture ever published'. His prior works list includes five other plant book credits, three of them for the RHS. I shall take all of this on trust, since attempts to find out more about the author and his background through the usual internet search mechanisms has failed miserably. He remains as elusive as the sacred flower that is the subject of this latest work: the lotus.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184595100X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Archie Brown|title=The Rise and Fall of CommunismKathleen Jamie|rating=4.5

|summary=Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''A source of hope for a radiant future or…the greatest threat this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the face book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the earthauthor considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself. Whichever of these descriptions you would apply to Communism you will find Archie Brown'' Older. Less tethered. That's detailed and largely objective study enlightening and engrossing. On one level, this is not a chronological bad description of how a political force grew where I am. Add to dominate a third that my love of the natural world's population then virtually disappeared within a period , of those aspects of the poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of less than a centuryall, about connection. Of course, this 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845950674</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Welshman0857058320|title=Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|summary=As ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a little girl I was fascinated by stories from journey to uncover the second world war. My Nan would tell me tales of her work doing welding, my mumauthor's uncle had exciting adventure stories from his years in the RAF, and the book Carrielost ancestor's War was one I returned to again life and againdeath. So I was intrigued by this title which looks at Cercas is searching for the stories of thirteen children and adults through World War Two, from the first wave of evacuations through to the end of the war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199574413</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Catrine Clay|title=Trautmannmeaning behind his great uncle's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legend|rating=4death in the Spanish Civil War.5|genre=Biography|summary='You have to learn to be hard menManuel Mena, to accept sacrifice without ever succumbingCercas'. Such did Hitler say at the Nuremberg Nazi Party rallies in the 1930s. He probably did not have in mind playing in goal at a FA Cup final with a broken neckgreat uncle, such is the lifetime of difference between the two references. But that lifetime, as packed and varied as it was, is in figure who looms large over the pages of this ever-interesting and swiftly-devoured book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224082884</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Skidmore|title=Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart |rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=When Elizabeth I ascended the throne in November 1558, everyoneHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's dominant concern was the matter of her taking an appropriate husband and securing the successionforces. The man most likely to become her husband was Robert Dudley, whom she made her Master of the Horse and entrusted with considerable responsibility Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for her coronation festivitiesthis dictator. The fact that he was already married to Amy Robsart did little to quell question at the speculation, especially since she was believed centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be dying of breast cancer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297846507</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=R A Scotti|title=The Lost Mona Lisa|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=One of the few things I remember from those writers' courses and advice books – and I can hear from here you wished I remembered more of them – was the merit in being aware of anniversaries, especially in your area of expertise, and a hero whilst having fought for the ability to sell articles concerning historical events linked into centenaries, modern comparisons, and so on. Well, here is the book equivalent, and although it's early – it's looking back on the summer of 1911 – this stands as quality enough to deny any latecomers shelf roomwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0553818309</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Greg Grandin0008294011|title=FordlandiaHow to Lose a Country: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran

|summary=In 1927, the Ford Motor company bought A little while ago a huge tract of land friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in Brazil, for years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the purpose of question ''Discuss the company growing its own rubber for use in making its carsfactors which led to... They planted rubber trees '' I agreed that she was right and built wasn't certain whether it was a factory and houses, and a number of top managers from the company were posted good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to Fordlandia to run the operation. Huge amounts I think now that I do know. We are in danger of money were pumped into Fordlandia, losing democracy and Ford made great claims for their plans. However, the project was whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a spectacular failurebetter one, and it lasted less than twenty years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848311478</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dominique Lapierre|title=A Rainbow in particularly as the Night |rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=A book integrating otherwise piecemeal news stories picked up over the past forty years into a coherent explanation 'benevolent dictator' is always welcome. This book explores South Africaas rare as hen's history and development, from the earliest Dutch arrivals in 1652 to the first racially integrated elections in 1994teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306818477</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Doug Stewart1788037812|title=The Boy Who Would Be ShakespeareFraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|summary=In Originally passed in 1885, the late 18th centurylaw that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, keen to impress the Shakespearerestrictions on same-obsessed father who paid him little attentionsex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, 19 year old William Henry Ireland forged a couple three books on the nature of Elizabethan documents to show himhomosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. With Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the older man completely taken European Continent, but barely talked about inthe UK, his child then pretended he'd found a trunk full so the publications of lost artefacts belonging these men were hugely significant – contributing to the Bard – love letters to Anne Hathaway, a declaration scientific understanding of his Protestant faithhomosexuality, and beginning the manuscript of King Lear, struggle for recognition and even entirely new plays. Ireland fooled not only his fatherequality, but also many of leading to the prominent Londoners milestone legalisation of the time, including Robert Southey, James Boswell, and the future William IVsame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306818310</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Krane1910593508|title=Dubai: The Story of the World's Fastest CityApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=4.5

|summary=In This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the 1950'ssubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of this, Dubai contained just the authors take a few thousand inhabitants scraping a living. By 1985, it had grown, but Sheikh Mohammed was still laughed at when he said narrative shortcuts knowing that he wanted to make it a popular destination for touristswe can fill in the blanks. With These shortcuts are the addition of artificial islands, only downside to the worldbook. If you's tallest building, an indoor ski slope, and much more, it's now one ve ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the world's foremost cities - but as headlines showed last year, the stellar growth may slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been extremely costly, in terms of finances, environmental problems, three times as long and the quality of life for some of its inhabitantsstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870094</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Stonor Saunders1786331047|title=The Woman Who Shot Mussolini|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=Most British titled families of the 19th and 20th centuries have produced their fair share of rebels. Yet few came as close Race to changing Save the course of European history as Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Honourable Violet Gibson, one of eight children of Baron Ashbourne, a Protestant Anglo-Irish peer and MP in DisraeliSecret Plans to Rescue Russia's government during the 1870s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571239773</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewImperial Family|author=Josephine Wilkinson|title=The Early Loves of Anne BoleynHelen Rappaport|rating=3.5|genre=History|summary=Before her marriage to King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn had already been courted by three suitors, any of whom might have become her husband - and possibly saved her from her eventual end on the scaffold. The first was her Irish cousin James Butler, later Earl of Ormond, whom she was at one time intended to marry in order to settle a family dispute over the title and estates of the Earldom of Ormond. After their marriage negotiations came to an end in the face of legal obstacles, she became betrothed to Henry Percy, heir to the Duke of Northumberland. With a little help from the scheming Cardinal Wolsey, the Duke, who had little time for his son, insisted that any idea of marriage between them should be dismissed forthwith. Soon after this the poet Thomas Wyatt became enamoured of her, but by this time there was fierce competition from his sovereign, and her destiny was sealed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848684304</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Caroline Moorehead |title=Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie De La Tour Du Pin and the French Revolution|rating=4

|summary=Two hundred years ago, with The basic facts about the fall deaths of the monarchy Nicholas and Alexandra, some of which were deliberately obscured at the Napoleonic warstime for various reasons, France underwent one cataclysmic change after anotherhave long since been established. There were many who witnessed For the last few months of their lives in Russia the former Tsar and experienced the volatile age at first handTsarina, but their children and few left a more detailed record than remaining servants were held in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. To prevent them from being rescued, in July 1918 the subject of this biographyrevolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to death in circumstances which, Lucie-Henriette Dillononce the news was confirmed beyond all doubt, Marquise Marchioness de La Tour du Pinhorrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099490528</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=John Van der Kiste|title=William and Mary: Heroes of the Glorious Revolution|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=At school I remember spending a lot of time Move on the Tudors and the early Stuarts – obviously great favourites of the history teacher and then galloping unceremoniously through the intervening years until we reached another ''meaningful'' period – the Victorian era. The importance of William and Mary was completely overlooked in favour of a quick mention of the fact that William wasn't in direct line of succession to the throne [[Newest Home and Mary had never wanted to marry him in the first place. Their successor, Queen Anne I remember simply as 'tables'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075094577X</amazonuk>}}Family Reviews]]