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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]==History==__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Kelly1785633457|title=Finding PolandCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson
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|summary=Scott, Amundsen, Bleriot, Stanley and Livingstone, John Glenn, et all - any child should be drummed out Clive Wilkinson has a history of school if they can't name half travelling by unconventional means with a dozen explorers, preference for slow travel pioneers and adventurers. But give them a gold star if they can name a single female entrant to history's listAs he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. Hence this bookIn fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for while some mountains have been topped by a lady first of all, Clive and some landmark achievements by the guys have been quickly followed by the galshis wife, there is just too much ground to be made up in recognising what the fairer sex have done in the world ofJoan, well, going round our world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688412</amazonuk>shouldn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David BennettB09BLBP3P8|title=A Magnificent Disaster: The Failure of the Market Garden, the Arnhem Operation, September 1944|rating=3.5|genre=History|summary=Operation Market Garden, September 1944 is encapsulated for most people in the Hollywood movie "A Bridge Too Far" which, like most movies, gets some of it right and some of it wrong. Such anyway is BennettNeville Chamberlain's assessment. So what is the true story of what one Major Norton called a magnificent disasterWar: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, perhaps consciously echoing that judgement on the charge of the Light Brigade in a far earlier conflict "C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre"?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>193514989X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1939-1940|author=Lynn Peril|title=Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the OfficeFrederic Seager
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|summary=The subtitle of this book suggests a survival guide Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to secretarial workmisconceptions about history. However, this One such is definitely not a handbook, but an examination the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the portrayal early days of World War II from 1939-40, known as the job ''Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, and those who do it Churchill coming in to save the media and in handbooks over the last 100 yearsday. It Very little time is an American book and all the references are to handbooks, media, popular fiction spent on this period in cultural reflections and advertising from the USyet, but as a secretary Frederic Seager argues in Britainthis book, I still found it relevant, interesting and very entertainingwas of vital significance in how the war played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393338541</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Niall McCrae3756228711|title=CDC: The Moon and Madnesshappy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer
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|summary=If you had to name one particular artefact which personifies the ''The history of England, it would be hard to choose anything more appropriate than the building which has at various times been a castle, a palace, a prison, a torture chamber, and execution site, an armoury, and is now the most visited tourist attraction in the nationdevelopment of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936659</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel Allen ButlerJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian, Fritz and the Night the Titanic Was LostKurt
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|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=It's now almost a century since We start with the loss pair of 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, being dutiful when it comes to the ''Titanic'' synagogue choir and although much has been written about almost every aspect of that dreadful night one point has remained at a mysteryvocational school. When Kurt has to make sure the wireless operator lamps are turned on the at their very Orthodox neighbours'unsinkable' Titanic radioed that each Friday night – the ship had hit an iceberg, had too few lifeboats Sabbath preventing them for all passengers using anything nearly as mechanical and was sinking fast there were two ships in the vicinityworkmanlike as a light switch. Captain Arthur Rostron on But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler''Carpathia'' responded to the distress signal s will, and hastened instead of having a national vote to keep the Titanic's aidNazis out, invite them in with open arms. But Captain Stanley Lord of the ''CalifornianKristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did not respondall the round-ups of Jews. The ship's radio officer had retired for These in their turn leave the night younger Kurt at home with his mother and Lord failed sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to take decisive action later that night when told about distress flares from Britain or the Titanic. The controversy as US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to why each other, packed off on the two captains should have acted so differently has raged across same train to Buchenwald and the intervening yearsstone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1935149857</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=D R ThorpeJohn Henry Phillips|title=Supermac: The Life of Harold MacmillanSearch
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|genre=History
|summary=As Wilson rightly points outArchaeology cannot be child's play, history is generally written by when you're scraping in the winnersdirt 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 turns the tables by looking at ten is a case of the worst episodes from latter, as our author promises to locate the point topic of view of those who were on the losing sidetitular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, from the sixth target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to the late twentieth centuries. Starting with the plague and war of 541a particular D-2 which accelerated Day veteran through helping the collapse of heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the Roman Empirelanding craft that delivered him to Normandy, and that he was lucky to the recent Rwandan genocide in which the death toll over just survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a few months probably exceeded a millionmemorial to everyone else aboard, history has had an uncomfortable habit the vast majority of repeating itselfwhom perished.Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907595457</amazonuk>1472146182
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger MoorhouseB09F4CTKJR|title=Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer
|rating=4.5
|genre=HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary=Berlin at War is an account of It's the day to day lives later stages of the ordinary people of Berlin, the then capital of Nazi Germany, during the Second World War. Berlin was heavily bombed throughout much of the war, I and suffered greatly as the symbolic target of Allied forces at United States has just entered the endconflict.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551896</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jacqueline Percival|title=Elbow Grease: How our Grandmothers Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and Great-Grandmothers Kept House|rating=3joined the 17 Aero Squadron.5|genre=History|summary=Sometimes I look at This company was the housework that needs first US Aero Squadron to be done and it seems like a mountain that has trained in Canada, the first to be climbed. It's not until I look back at attached to the work that my mother, her mother RAF and even my great grandmother had the first to do be sent into the skies to keep fight the house clean and free of pests as well as doing all the laundry Germans in active combat. But before that I realise that my problems are more of a molehill and a lot less strenuous than their daily grind ever was. Jacqueline Percival can happen, Petrol has taken a look back at the way that things really were for the women who went before us – and in those days housework generally was down to master flying the woman in the housenotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956559530</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Schwartz0578761718|title=A Serious Endeavour: Gender, Education and Community at St Hugh's, 1886-2011The Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary='A Serious Endeavour' is an account The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the role City of one Oxford college London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the history original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of higher education for womenLondon in 1666. When it It was first founded rebuilt in 1886 there were very different views on what such education should bePortland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, even among when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn't the end of its supporters. The university would not even grant female students degrees until 1920story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, and students the stones from the church's walls were allowed transported to choose their own course Fulton, Missouri. There, in the grounds of study Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and whether they would take formal exams or not before thistoday serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668515X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Cooke1784385166|title=The Damnation of John DonellanThird Reich in 100 Objects: A Mysterious Case Material History of Death and Scandal in Georgian EnglandNazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse
|rating=5
|genre=History
|summary=Truth What is stranger than fiction - the first image that comes to mind when you think of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but it is not always this gripping. The Boughtons they are emblematic of Lawford Hall, Warwickshire, have a colourful history, including the ghost of One-Handed Boughton, who haunted their land long before this new misfortune befell themThird Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. With marriages creating more branches of family, delicate relationships abound But some objects and help images from that time may be less familiar to shape the complex events detailed in the bookyou. We begin with Sir Theodosius BoughtonIn this short volume, heir Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the estate when he comes period of age, suffering from venereal disease. He is obliged to take medication and is well known for neglecting the recommendations Third Reich through one hundred of physicians. One fateful morning, he takes a new medicine, and dies in agonyits material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668482X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stacy SchiffLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=CleopatraTiananmen 1989: A LifeOur Shattered Hopes
|rating=4.5
|genre=BiographyGraphic Novels|summary=Stacey Schiff's biography starts more I never really followed the events of less from Cleopatra's infamous meeting Tiananmen Square with Caesarmuch attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, where she sneaks into his rooms in a sackyou know. This is one I certainly didn't know of the most popular images weeks of Cleopatra in protests and hunger strikes from the students before the public consciousness massacre and Schiff happily refutes the birth of the Tank Man image of her emerging as a well polished seductress, pointing out that anyone who I didn't know how the area had long been carried in a sack venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a considerable period of time will more likely be fairly dishevelledspit about the people involved on either side. Schiff takes us through from this moment up to Cleopatra This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's much dramatised death, and beyond, to context for the end whole season of the Ptolemaic dynastyprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>075353956X</amazonuk>1684056993
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirin Ebadi0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One DestinyInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=As I read The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick'How s life was probably determined when her family emigrated to Survive the TitanicUSA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn' I was conscious t allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that we're only she received a matter good education, both in and out of months away from school. She was the centenary of only child in the sinking – household and a slew of media to mark the occasionher childhood was glorious. Given that By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the subject has been mined extensively over mid-west of the years it will be interesting United States and life was hard, as Clara was to see whether there's anything new find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to be said about join the tragedyfamily. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. It's As the eldest girl, a subject which has always fascinated me – heavy burden would fall on Clara and it Wisconsin was with a sense of anticipation that I opened the bookrude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809222</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank McLynn1783784350|title=The Burma CampaignThis Golden Fleece: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45|rating=4.5|genre=A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|summary=I'm no military historian; I'm not really interested in war. In the Second World War, if push came to shove, I would probably have claimed pacificism. But when this paperback version of the recently published hardback came up, by prolific and highly-esteemed historian Frank McLynn, I just had to read it. The subject is very special in our family, because “Grandad was there”. Grandad fought over the tennis court at Kohima, and he has carried the trauma in his head to this day. Frank McLynn describes that particular battle as “... a scene from Hieronymus Bosch out of Passchendaele”. I knew I had to steel myself to read this book, and was very pleased that the author wrote sensitively about the reality of close combat for lily livers like mine.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551780</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nathaniel Philbrick|title=The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big HornEsther Rutter|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=I have It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to admit that I people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was rather underinformed about Custer before reading this book; I knew going to be a time for making changes and she decided that he was killed at she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the Battle story of Little Big Horn wool's history and how it had made and that opinion seemed to be split changed the landscape. She'd grown up on whether he was an arrogant and overa sheep farm in Suffolk -confident commander or '' a dashing and brilliant one. From reading this admirably evenfree-handed account, not just of his famous Last Stand but also of range child on the events leading up farm'' - and learned to itspin, I found out a huge amount about him knit and weave from her mother and the other personalities involved her mother's friend. This was in his defeather blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521245</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Knapp1789017977|title=Invisible RomansRonnie and Hilda's Romance: Prostitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators, Ordinary Men and Women … the Romans that History ForgotTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=This academic title by Robert Knapp, Professor Emeritus at Ronnie Williams was the University son of CaliforniaThomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, will be welcomed by serious students of the Roman Empirebut he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. It goes without saying that this research provides For a valuable supplement while the family was quite well-to -do but disaster struck in the existing academic literature. From the meticulous attention 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to detail, I suspect that amassing the material was a labour of love over a lifetime of analysing more prominent Roman citizensvery different lifestyle. Clues have been inferred One thing he did inherit from classical literature, culled from epitaphs his father was his need to be well-turned-out and deduced from archaeological finds (particularly Pompeii), since hardly any evidence of ordinary folks' lives has otherwise survivedthis would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684013</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Mitchell1980891117|title=Jacobs BeachG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: The Mob, the Garden, and A year in the Golden Age life of BoxingGeorge Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating=4.5|genre=SportArt|summary=Despite not being a particular fan George Engleheart was one of the sport leading portrait miniaturists of boxingGeorgian London, Kevin Mitchell's compelling knowledge with a career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. He was also one of the personalities involved in most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the fight game in the 20th centurynames of each of his clients, coupled with a staccato writing style which got my attention quickly and kept it subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to the very last page, meant this as his fee book actually rose far above my expectations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224075098</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Dickie1789016304|title=Blood BrotherhoodsWar and Love: The Rise A family's testament of the Italian Mafiasanguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin
|rating=5
|genre=History
|summary=There can be few people who are unaware Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary of the Ann Frank'mafia' particularly as the word is used as a catch-all to cover the Italian criminal fraternity – but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and by extension seven thousand Jews were deported from the off-shoots which have spread throughout city during the world – war years, but the south of Italy has three major mafiasonly 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. Sicily is Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the birthplace of and home to Cosa NostraGermans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, whilst Naples and its hinterland hosts that the camorra. In Calabria, possibly Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the poorest region of Italyway that it did, you'll find but initial protests melted away as the 'ndranghetaorganisers became more circumspect. There are plenty of myths and legends about the birth of the criminal organisations, It's an atrocity on a vast scale but Professor John Dickie has looked at their early history from 1851 through to the liberation made up of Italy at the end tens of the Second World War. He looks at their rituals and their methods and much thousands of what you will read has been a secret until nowindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340963921</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex Kershaw1908745819|title=To Save a PeopleSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=Raoul WallenbergSometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a Swedish diplomat of Jewish ancestrybook calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was without doubt one told why. The blurb speaks of the heroes author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of the Second World Warwhere I am. This bookAdd to that my love of the natural world, by one of those aspects of the war's foremost modern historianspoetic and lyrical that are about style not form, tells the story and substance most of his humanitarian work which began with his posting all, 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 Budapest in July 1944have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539136</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Wheen0857058320|title=Dot-Dash To Dot.ComLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=The Premise ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is simple: take twelve men (and unfortunately they are all men, but thata journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's not life and death. Cercas is searching for the authormeaning behind his great uncle's fault) who have achieved high office and look at each of themdeath in the Spanish Civil War. FirstlyManuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, take a look at is the road to figure who looms large over the high office, then how they performed once they reached their goal and finally a look at their private lifebook. Suetonius did it first when he wrote 'He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The Twelve Caesars'' and now Nigel Hamilton has taken question at the same journey with ''American Caesars'', centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a remarkably in-depth look at twelve consecutive American presidents from hero whilst having fought for the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, starting with Franklin D Roosevelt and finishing with George W Bushwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520419</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ciaran O Murchadha0008294011|title=How to Lose a Country: The Great Famine: Ireland's Agony 1845-1852 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=In August 1845, reports began A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to circulate of the destruction of growing potatoes in the south of England, killed come would be discussed by a mysterious and so far unknown plant disease. As yet, the scientific aspects of what was given A level history students when faced with the name of question 'blight' were not fully recognised, let alone understood. At the end of Discuss the month, small instances of failure in the potato crop in Ireland were reported, but there seemed factors which led to be no cause for alarm until the main crop was dug out in October. ..'' Only then did I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it become apparent was a good or bad thing that an we didn't know what all 'awful plaguethis' had appeared was leading to. I think now that I do know. We are in several areas, with decomposing vegetables producing a strong, foul stench that assailed the nostrils danger of cultivators losing democracy and passers-by alike.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847252176</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Holmes|title=Churchillwhilst it's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart a flawed system I can't think of Britain's Victory|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Nowadays, when there is a security threat it seems to be mandatory to whisk the leader and other important personages off to a secret location deep inside a mountain or in a distant forestbetter one, but Churchill fought his war – our war – from a series of basement rooms right in particularly as the heart of London and within sight of Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament. The Cabinet War Rooms didn't have their own air supply, were infested with vermin and lacked proper toilet facilities, but they were Churchillbenevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's choice. He spent a few nights down in the CWR but usually lived in the No 10 Annex upstairs – throughout the worst of the bombingteeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682312</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=RussiaThe Fraternity of the Estranged: A 1The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England,0001891-Year Chronicle of the Wild East1908|author=Martin SixsmithBrian Anderson
|rating=5
|genre=History
|summary=As Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a former BBC correspondent crime remained in Moscow at place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the time that heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the Cold War margins of society and studying homosexuality was endingcommon on the European Continent, Sixsmith is but barely talked about in a unique position the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to write a history the scientific understanding of Russiahomosexuality, based partly on research and partly on his own experiencesbeginning the struggle for recognition and equality, after having witnessed at first hand some leading to the milestone legalisation of the upheavals same-sex relationships in recent years which play such an important part in the story1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849900728</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Shephard1910593508|title=The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World WarApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins
|rating=5
|genre=History
|summary=In This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the immediate aftermath of passion for the Second World War Europe was in tatterssubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and millions because of its citizens were stranded far from homethis, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. How These shortcuts are the only downside to cope with these Displaced Persons was one of the biggest issues book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the immediate post-war periodslight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. In 'The Long Road Home' Ben Shephard tells their storyThis is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712600590</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Blixen1786331047|title=Out Of AfricaThe Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport
|rating=5
|genre=History
|summary=The Home Intelligence Department had been set up by basic facts about the government to assess home morale by studying immediate reactions to specific events deaths of Nicholas and to find out public opinion on important issuesAlexandra, including pacifism. One reason some of which were deliberately obscured at the time for this was 'to provide a basis for publicity'various reasons, that is, to plan propaganda and test its effectivenesshave long since been established. The reports drew on various sources, including Mass Observation, a market research style Wartime Social Survey, staff listening to conversations on For the way to work, and visiting pubs and other places where lots last few months of people went their lives in Russia the former Tsar and talked to each other.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548747</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Betty Lussier|title=Intrepid Woman: Betty Lussier's Secret WarTsarina, 1942-1945|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Betty Lussier was born their children and few remaining servants were held in Albertaincreasingly squalid, Canadahumiliating captivity. At the height of the depression her father bought a Maryland farm at a bank foreclosure saleTo prevent them from being rescued, they crossed in July 1918 the border to the States revolutionary regime had them all shot and settled down bayoneted to death in circumstances which, once the hard life of raising dairy cattle and the crops needed to feed themnews was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1591144493</amazonuk>
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