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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__{{newreview|title=Inferno Decoded: The essential companion to the myths, mysteries and locations of Dan Brown's Inferno|author=Michael Haag|rating=4|genre=Entertainment|summary=Here be spoilers. Not so much in my review, but certainly in its subject, a very quickly produced companion guide to the latest [[:Category:Dan Brown|Dan Brown]] blockbuster. It's not so much a page<!--byINSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-page guide, but certainly serves as an educational and intelligent look at the background to the biggest-selling book of 2013.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251800</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=The Black CountCharging Around: Glory, revolution, betrayal and Exploring the real Count Edges of Monte CristoEngland by Electric Car|author=Tom ReissClive Wilkinson

|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=While the novels Clive Wilkinson has a history of Alexandre Dumas, like ''The Three Musketeers'' and ''The Count of Monte Cristo'', weren't true, they were based on travelling by unconventional means with a real hero - Dumas's own fatherpreference for slow travel. Born As he neared his eightieth birthday the son idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a slave and a French nobleman, General Alexandre Dumas would go on to rise to fame pleasant holiday for Clive and fortune during the French Revolutionhis wife, only to face racismJoan, betrayal, and a rivalry with Napoleon Bonaparte which would eventually lead to the virtual disappearance from history of this incredible figure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575132</amazonuk>shouldn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09BLBP3P8|title=TutankhamenNeville Chamberlain's CurseWar: The Developing History of an Egyptian KingHow Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Joyce TyldesleyFrederic Seager

|summary=The striking cover 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'Tutankhamen’s Curse' certainly has a way of arresting the reader’s attention. The iconic golden funeral mask peers We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out from an ink-black background , and those heavily-lined Egyptian eyes seem Churchill coming in to stare eerily into save the soul 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 beholderwar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861971664</amazonuk>

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. }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=A Very British Killing: The Death Fritz and Kurt|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start with the 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 synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt 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. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. 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. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of Baha Mousaall this could come about…|isbn=024156574X}}{{Frontpage|author=A T WilliamsJohn Henry Phillips|title=The Search

|summary=Almost ten years ago on a Sunday morning back Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in September 2003the dirt looking to find what you can find, British Troops raided often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a hotel in Basrafair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. It was This book is a difficult period in case of the occupationlatter, six months on from as our author promises to locate the U.S. led invasion. Temperatures were more than 50 degrees centigrade. Members topic of the Queentitular search. And he really hasn's Lancashire Regiment (QLR) took ten suspects in t made it easy for questioning from himself – the search area is a hotel in wide one, the vicinity of insurgent weaponry. The Iraqis were hoodedtarget might not exist any more – oh, plasticuffedand it's underwater, forced into stress positions and subjected when he cannot dive. Latching on to karate chops and kidney punches by a particular D-Day veteran through helping the British. Other men and officers watchedheroic old man's visit back to France, walked by or wondered at our author has promised to find the stench landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and that resulted he was lucky to survive when it sank from vicious punishmentbeneath him. After 36 hours of tortureThe secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, a 26 year-old hotel receptionist lay dead by asphyxiation. His grossly disfigured body bore 93 individual injuries. There are now in the region vast majority of another 250 individuals, men and women, whose families are making legal claims whom perished. Who else would make such promises to have been killed someone in further encounters with British patrols or prison guards.their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575116</amazonuk>1472146182

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title=The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's MummyFlights for Freedom|author=Jo MarchantSteven Burgauer|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary=It''Now, if s the later stages of World War I'd known''<br>''They'd line up and the United States has just to see him,''<br>''I'd taken all my money''<br>''And bought me entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a museumyoung American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron.'' These lyrics, taken from a popular Steve Martin song, perfectly epitomize a phenomenon This company was the first described US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the New York Times, February 1923. The craze came first to be known as ''Tut-Mania'' attached to the RAF and even now, ninety years later, there is something about the boy-king with first to be sent into the skies to fight the golden mask Germans in active combat. But before that ignites can happen, Petrol has to master flying the imagination and curiosity of each subsequent generationnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306821338</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0578761718|title=The Last BattleInspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Stephen HardingNancy Carver

|summary=May 4, 1945 saw the unconditional surrender The church of all German troops in Germany St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in Northwest Germany, the NetherlandsCity of London from at least 1181, Denmark and Bavariawhen it was first mentioned in records. Berlin had surrendered two days earlier. A few more areas remained officially at warSadly, but even the most diehard supporter must have realised Germany had fallenoriginal church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The war It was overrebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, to most soldiers, although VE day would be delayed for a few more dayswhen it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn't the most implausible battle end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the second world war was about church's walls were transported to beginFulton, Missouri. Had ''The Last Battle'' been fictionThere, I would have scoffed at the unlikely alliance featured in this book as too unbelievable. A final battle played out in isolated Austrian castle was to rescue French VIPs held as honour prisoners. They were to be protected by the oddest ensemble grounds of soldiers ever known. A ranking member of the S.S., a decorated Wehrmacht officer and his troopsWestminster College, the Austrian resistance church was rebuilt and today serves as a few American soldiers against a suicidal S.S. troop bent on carrying as many killings as possible before the inevitable endmemorial to Winston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306822083</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1784385166|title=The Riddle Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of the LabyrinthNazi Germany|author=Margalit FoxRoger Moorhouse

|summary=Meet Linear B. It's What is the name given first image that comes to an ancient writing system discovered in 1900, and has stuck ever since then. If mind when you need think of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to know more, it's a linear style concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of writing, and is linked to Linear A. There, thatthe Third Reich's that cleared upfascist regime in all its iniquity. But it took an awful long time to clear anything more up – while people knew some things about Linear B, objects and why and how they got images from that time may be less familiar to be holding it in their hands, the actual language it contained, and its meaning, was a truly intellectual challenge. It was five whole decades of obscurity, annoyingly secretive archaeologists and more, between Sir Arthur Evans finding Linear B on copious clay tablets on Crete, and its interpretationyou. In between those two landmarks was an unsung American heroinethis short volume, and this book is both an incredibly readable guide Roger Moorhouse has attempted to everything regarding Linear B, and a study illustrate the period of the Third Reich through one hundred of her contributionits material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251320</amazonuk> 

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan DimblebyLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=Destiny in the DesertTiananmen 1989: The Road to El Alamein - the Battle that Turned the TideOur Shattered Hopes

|genre=HistoryGraphic Novels|summary=El Alamein is a totemic British battle, standing as I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it does with others which turned was playing out – someone in the tide second half of our fortunestheir teens has other priorities, you know. The Allies were still smarting I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the effects students before the massacre and the birth of Dunkirk and harbouring the knowledge that Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had Hitler elected to press his advantage then the situation could have long been very different. Churchill is often quoted as saying that there were no victories before El Alamein a venue for political protest, and no defeats afterwardsI didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This isn't true - 'it seemed that' book is generally omitted from the beginning of the quote - but it does sum up the fact that the battle turned the tide of practically flawless in giving a general browser''perception'' as well as s context for the fortunes whole season of war, which was quite an achievement for fighting which took place on land to which none of the major participants had any legitimate claimprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846684455</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=Ruta's ClosetClara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=Keith Morgan with Ruth Kron SigalJohn Holliday

|genre=HistoryBiography|summary=A Holocaust memoirThe path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. ThereAt the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, Ishe wasn've said itt allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and in one fell swoop I've consigned this book to saw that she received a niche marketgood education, both in and a small – and very much over-supplied – audienceout of school. Such books do find it difficult to get their heads above She was the only child in the parapet household and the voice within heardher childhood was glorious. By contrast, and it seems they have slowly filled her family had become pioneer farmers in all the gaps in mid-west of the available knowledge about United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the Holocaustfamily. But that's the point that makes those words sound churlish – every life that survived that nightmare has to fill in Clara would only know her mother for a gapfew months: she was married for fifteen years, and account for those who committed the crimes and those that helped out and rescued a survivorhad ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and serve as monument to those six million gaps it createddied in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. LuckilyAs the eldest girl, mostly a heavy burden would fall on account of location, this book certainly does serve to fill in Clara and Wisconsin was a wider gap in our perception of WWII than mostrude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906509263</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1783784350|title=The Double Cross System This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=J C MastermanEsther Rutter

|summary=This It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she''Vintage'' re-issue of Masterman's account of d never met and preparing spreadsheets. The 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 work length and breadth of the Twenty Committee is subtitled British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the 'classic account story of World War Two Spy-Masterswool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. ThatShe's d grown up on a somewhat misleading tease. The book isnsheep farm in Suffolk - ''t really about a free-range child on the spyfarm'' -mastersand learned to spin, very little information is given about those recruiting, turning, running knit and weave from her mother and protecting the spiesher mother's friend. More information - but again relatively little - is given about the spies themselvesThis was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578239</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris West1789017977|title=First ClassRonnie and Hilda's Romance: A History of Britain in 36 Postage StampsTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating=54

|summary=As a philatelist Ronnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and lover of historyEthel 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, I approached this book with even more curiosity but he was already many years older than usualEthel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. The subtitle suggested For a while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very intriguing approach, but different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and this would it work? stay with him throughout his life. I’m glad to report that it didHe joined the army at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224095463</amazonuk>

  {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Mortimer1980891117|title=G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A History year in the life of Cricket in 100 ObjectsGeorge Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating=4.5|genre=SportArt|summary=[[A History George Engleheart was one of Football in 100 Objects by Gavin Mortimer|A History the leading portrait miniaturists of Football in 100 Objects]] was a brave attemptGeorgian London, but was slightly let down by being with a little too clinicalcareer lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. Being a game imbued with passion, the book lacked this which took some He was also one of the edge off it. Cricketmost prolific, whilst inspiring passion amongst devoteespainting nearly 5, has a slightly more laid back following; one that may work better in this format000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). That said, being a game Throughout most of that has been played for five centuriestime he carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, narrowing it down and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to just 100 objects is no less an undertaking than for footballas his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689406</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Polly Morland1789016304|title=The Society of Timid SoulsWar and Love: Or, How to be Brave|rating=3.5|genre=Reference|summary='I see no reason why the shy and timid in any community couldn’t get together and help each other.' The above words were uttered in 1943 by a gentleman called Bernard Gabriel. Mr Gabriel was a piano player who founded a unique club, 'A family'The Society s testament of Timid Souls'' that encouraged timid performers and fear-wracked musicians to come in out of the cold 'to playanguish, to criticise endurance and be criticised devotion in order to conquer that old bogey of stage fright.' The method evidently worked, as many a timid soul claimed to be cured by these unorthodox methods and club membership grew considerably in the years that followed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251908</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewoccupied Amsterdam|author=Paul Strathern|title=The Spirit of Venice: From Marco Polo to CasanovaMelanie Martin|rating=45

|summary=There are several ways of telling the history of the republic of Venice, which is generally regarded as the first great economic and naval power of the western world. Strathern has chosen Melanie Martin read about what happened to do so largely through the lives of various famous (Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and also infamous) people from Marco Polo in the late thirteenth century to was entranced by what he calls its destructionshe discovered, particularly in 'both political and symbolic', at the hands The Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1797Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. On A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the wholewar years, the major events such as its wars are covered fairly brieflybut 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. An exception, fittingly enough, is made in Most people believed that the case of a chapter on occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the war which began its decline in Germans might reach the fifteenth centurycity were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, when it tried to hold Thessalonica against that the Ottomans, and sent ships Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to help defend Constantinople against the Turkish army but found itself heavily defeated escalate in the subsequent lengthy warway that it did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a result vast scale but made up of tens of which it lost most thousands of its possessionsindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951921</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Hart1908745819|title=The Great WarSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie

|summary=There are Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain aspects of world history 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 duty-bound sensitive to teach to each generationhearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. World War In this case, I was called told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.''The Great War Older. Less tethered. That' for s not a reason; it changed bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the natural world scene irrevocably , of those aspects of the poetic and is regarded as the single lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most important event of the twentieth 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. The war introduced dreadful new weapons designed I am pleased to slaughter as many people as possible with maximum efficiency, resulting in tens of millions of deathshave it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682460</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Palmer0857058320|title=Made to last: The story of Britain's best-known shoe firmLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceHistory|summary=From its founding by ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the Quaker brothers Cyrus author's lost ancestor's life and James Clark death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Somerset village of StreetSpanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, to its present-day status as a global shoe brandCercas' great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the name centre of Clark has weathered many a storm as this book is whether it draws close is possible for his great uncle to its bicentenary. This account of the company, by be a distant kinsman of the two original founders, has drawn heavily on hero whilst having fought for the archives and on in-depth interviews with the family to tell the full storywrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685206</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Cockayne0008294011|title=Cheek by JowlHow to Lose a Country: A History of NeighboursThe 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran

|summary=As Emily Cockayne emphasises at A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the beginning of question ''Discuss the first chapter, almost everyone has a neighbour; if you have factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a neighbour, you are one yourself; and neighbours can enrich good or ruin our livesbad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. In this engaging book, she takes various case studies We are in danger of losing democracy and anecdotes whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of living side by side in Britain from around 1200 to a better one, particularly as the present day'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546949</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Mortimer1788037812|title=The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|summary=For many of usOriginally passed in 1885, the Elizabethan age which comprised almost half of the Tudor era seems bathed law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in sunlightplace for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the gilded era nature of Queen Elizabeth's 'sceptred isle'homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. It Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the period European Continent, but barely talked about in which Gloriana presided over Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the globeUK, so the defeat publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the Spanish Armadascientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the literary epoch milestone legalisation of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser and Sidneysame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099542072</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder1910593508|title=Thinking the Twentieth CenturyApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=4.5

|summary=In emulating historians from his geographical area of interest, Timothy Snyder poses questions This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to, the Moon landings and discusses ideas withthe passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, the highly esteemed British historian Chris Baker and writer Tony Judt, best known for his 2005 ''Postwar''Mike Collins. This collaboration is a story we know well and because of this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the older and blanks. These shortcuts are the younger thinker engenders only downside to the spoken book . If you''Thinking the Twentieth Century'', ve ever read a rather intriguing exploration comic book adaptation of said time period. Each of its ten chapters begins a film you will be familiar with Judt’s narrative of a specific point in his personal life, the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and continues into debates of specific facets of history; that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a healthy mix of thematic graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and chronological approaches is used for the latterstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009956355X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathryn J Prince1786331047|title=Death in The Race to Save the BalticRomanovs: The World War II Sinking of Truth Behind the Wilhelm GustloffSecret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=45

|summary=There is no pun intended when I describe The basic facts about the ship ''Wilhelm Gustloff'' as stern. It just seems from looking at her hard deaths of Nicholas and rigid lines that if you Alexandra, some of which were to design a ship that deliberately obscured at the Nazi party would use as an ideological tooltime for various reasons, to take have long since been established. For the last few months of their favoured workers on pleasure cruises around lives in Russia the Mediterraneanformer Tsar and Tsarina, you would naturally end up with something that looked like hertheir children and few remaining servants were held in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. However fate had it that within years she became a hospital shipTo prevent them from being rescued, and it wasn't much longer after that that she was stationed in July 1918 the northern Polish port now known as Gdynia, ready revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to help death in a major evacuation of thousands of desperatecircumstances which, starving and fevered people fleeing once the advancing Soviet army. All they wanted to do news was to avoid the perilous snowy overland route to get a few miles along the coastconfirmed beyond all doubt, but they weren't to know that within hours of sailing the ''Wilhelm Gustloff'' would be torpedoed, and many thousands would perish horrified their relatives in the near-frozen Baltic watersEurope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023034156X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Peter Frankopan|title=The First Crusade: The Call from the East|rating=3.5|genre=History|summary=At the now famous Council of Clermont in November 1095, Pope Urban II responded to calls of distress from the eastern Byzantine Empire by issuing the dramatic call to arms that sparked the First Crusade. But there are at least two sides to every story, especially in history. Western histories of the Crusades have concentrated Move on that Council and the journeys of Crusaders across Europe: Peter Frankopan's 'The Call from the East' instead draws attention to Emperor Alexios I Komnenus [[Newest Home and the plight of his Byzantine Empire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555034</amazonuk>}}Family Reviews]]