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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=1912Charging Around: The Year Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the World Discovered Antarcticaedges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09BLBP3P8|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Chris TurneyFrederic Seager|rating=4.5

|summary=If you read those products designed Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to make you a published author, one way to start according to so many misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the early days of them is to look ahead for a pertinent anniversaryWorld War II from 1939-40, research or know your subject well, and write well in advance and as popularly known as you can on whatever the subject is''Phoney War''. Make no mistakeWe remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, however – Chris Turneywar breaking out, even if he would appear to have followed that dictum and Churchill coming in to save the lastday. Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, is no chancer with the eye to as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was of vital significance in how the temporary relevancewar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845952103</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark White3756228711|title=KennedyCDC: A Cultural History of an American IconThe happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer

|summary=During his lifetime John Fitzgerald Kennedy created an image ''The history of himself that dazzled and which has largely remained intact despite the steady leakage development of information over the years which IT could have been expected to tarnish. It could be argued that - much as in the case of Elvis Presley and Princess Diana - death was an excellent career move, but Mark White examines the way the image was built up, then maintained and - after the assassination - burnished, reinforced and protected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441161864</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV|author=Joe Moran|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=All of us have a love-hate affair with television, or ‘the idiot lantern’. Hardly anybody who has ever owned a set, or been part of a family which has had one, can envisage life without it. It has been a source of endless entertainment and escape from the drudge of everyday life, while at some time it has irritated most of us beyond measure. Love it or loathe it, it has always been part of the fabric of our existence. While to a certain extent it has been superseded by online services which have supplemented if not overtaken or usurped part of its role, its iconic status is unlikely to disappear for the foreseeable future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683912</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Anti-Judaism: A History of a Way of Thinking|author=David Nirenberg|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=Initially the choice of title seemed an odd one on account of the more widely used term, anti-Semitism. The distinction is quickly made though, that unlike the latter, anti-Judaism does not need real Jews to flourish, but is fuelled by an idea alone. In fact this is a core tenet of Nirenberg’s thesis. Throughout history the idea of ‘Judaism’ is raised as an existential spectre in societies where there may be no Jewish members at all. This is a chilling reality, and Nirenberg charts the course fill books of how this came to beseveral hundred pages. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851131</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=Victoria's Madmen: Revolution and Alienation|author=Clive Bloom|rating=4Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that.5|genre=History|summary=Despite the revisionist work of a few writers and historians, our prevailing image of the Victorian age He has generally been one of staid conformity, superiority and stuffiness, during which only a few dissenters put their heads above chosen to tell us about the parapet. Clive Bloom sums it up rather succinctly on the first page as a ‘monolith of steam and class conflictshort, antimacassars and aspidistras’. A page laterbut explosive, he describes the nineteenth century – most history of which was covered by the Victorian era – as one divided by three groupsControl Data Company, namely those who represented the old Georgian decadenceCDC, the young Turks eager for reformwhom he worked. It's a fascinating tale, and finally a group who felt an allegiance to the world of their forebears but were forced to exist told in a world mixture of confirming moralism technological summary and priggishness. The young Turks, he concludes, ultimately wonwry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230313825</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Inferno Decoded: The essential companion to the myths, mysteries Jeremy Dronfield and locations of Dan Brown's InfernoDavid Ziggy Greene|authortitle=Michael HaagFritz and Kurt

|genre=EntertainmentConfident Readers|summary=Here be spoilers. Not so much We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in my review1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, but certainly in its subjecthelping 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 quickly produced companion guide 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 latest [[:Category:Dan Brown|Dan Brown]] blockbusterNazis out, invite them in with open arms. It's not so 'Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much a page-by-page guideas in Germany, but certainly serves 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 educational evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and intelligent look at his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the background same train to Buchenwald and the biggest-selling book stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of 2013.all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781251800</amazonuk>024156574X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Black Count: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte CristoJohn Henry Phillips|authortitle=Tom ReissThe Search

|summary=While Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in the novels 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 Alexandre Dumasthe latter, like ''The Three Musketeers'' and ''The Count as our author promises to locate the topic of Monte Cristo'the titular search. 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, werenand it't trues underwater, they were based when he cannot dive. Latching on to a real hero particular D- DumasDay veteran through helping the heroic old man's own father. Born the son of a slave and a French noblemanvisit back to France, General Alexandre Dumas would go on to rise our author has promised to fame and fortune during find the French Revolution, only landing craft that delivered him to face racism, betrayalNormandy, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a rivalry with Napoleon Bonaparte which would eventually lead memorial to everyone else aboard, the virtual disappearance from history vast majority of this incredible figurewhom perished.Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575132</amazonuk>1472146182

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title=Tutankhamen's Curse: The Developing History of an Egyptian KingFlights for Freedom|author=Joyce TyldesleySteven Burgauer

|genre=HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary=The striking cover It's the later stages of 'Tutankhamen’s Curse' certainly World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a way of arresting young American who has signed up and joined the reader’s attention17 Aero Squadron. The iconic golden funeral mask peers out from an ink-black background This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF and those heavily-lined Egyptian eyes seem the first to stare eerily be sent into the soul of skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the beholdernotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861971664</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0578761718|title=A Very British Killing: The Death Inspiring History of Baha Mousaa Special Relationship|author=A T WilliamsNancy Carver|rating=4.5

|summary=Almost ten years ago on a Sunday morning back The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in September 2003the City of London from at least 1181, British Troops raided a hotel when it was first mentioned in Basrarecords. It Sadly, the original church was a difficult period destroyed in the occupation, six months on from the UGreat Fire of London in 1666.S. led invasion. Temperatures were more than 50 degrees centigrade. Members of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment (QLR) took ten suspects It was rebuilt in for questioning Portland stone from a hotel in design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the vicinity of insurgent weaponry. The Iraqis were hoodedfire and then survived for centuries until World War II, plasticuffed, forced into stress positions and subjected to karate chops and kidney punches when it was again ruined by bombs during the BritishBlitz. Other men and officers watchedBut that wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, walked by or wondered at the stench that resulted stones from vicious punishment. After 36 hours of torturethe church's walls were transported to Fulton, a 26 year-old hotel receptionist lay dead by asphyxiation. His grossly disfigured body bore 93 individual injuriesMissouri. There are now , in the region grounds of another 250 individualsWestminster College, men the church was rebuilt and women, whose families are making legal claims today serves as a memorial to have been killed in further encounters with British patrols or prison guardsWinston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575116</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1784385166|title=The Shadow KingThird Reich in 100 Objects: The Bizarre Afterlife A Material History of King Tut's MummyNazi Germany|author=Jo MarchantRoger Moorhouse

|summary=''Now, if I'd known''<br>''They'd line up just What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to see him,a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Third Reich''<br>''I'd taken s fascist regime in all my money''<br>''And bought me a museumits iniquity.'' These lyrics, taken But some objects and images from a popular Steve Martin song, perfectly epitomize a phenomenon first described in the New York Timesthat time may be less familiar to you. In this short volume, February 1923. The craze came Roger Moorhouse has attempted to be known as ''Tut-Mania'' and even now, ninety years later, there is something about illustrate the boy-king with period of the golden mask that ignites the imagination and curiosity Third Reich through one hundred of each subsequent generationits material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306821338</amazonuk> 

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Last BattleLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|authortitle=Stephen HardingTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|genre=HistoryGraphic Novels|summary=May 4I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, 1945 saw you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the unconditional surrender birth of all German troops in Germany in Northwest Germanythe Tank Man image, I didn't know how the Netherlandsarea had long been a venue for political protest, Denmark and BavariaI didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. Berlin had surrendered two days earlier. A few more areas remained officially at war, but even This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the most diehard supporter must have realised Germany had fallenwhole season of protests back in 1989. |isbn=1684056993}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=The war path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was over, probably determined when her family emigrated to most soldiers, although VE day would be delayed for a few more daysthe USA. But At the most implausible battle time she was just three-years-old but because of the second world war was about some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to beginsail with her parents and three brothers. Had ''The Last Battle'' been fiction Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, I would have scoffed at the unlikely alliance featured both in this book as too unbelievableand out of school. A final battle played out She was the only child in isolated Austrian castle the household and her childhood was to rescue French VIPs held as honour prisonersglorious. They were to be protected by By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the oddest ensemble of soldiers ever known. A ranking member mid-west of the S.S.United States and life was hard, a decorated Wehrmacht officer as Clara was to find out when she and his troops, her grandparents eventually went to join the Austrian resistance and family. Clara would only know her mother for a few American soldiers against months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a suicidal S.S. troop bent heavy burden would fall on carrying as many killings as possible before the inevitable endClara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306822083</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1783784350|title=The Riddle of the LabyrinthThis Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Margalit FoxEsther Rutter

|summary=Meet Linear B. It's the name given to an ancient writing system discovered was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in 1900her office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and has stuck ever since theneven her knitting did not soothe her mind. If you need January was going to know more, it's be a linear style time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of writingthe British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and is linked to Linear A. There, thattelling the story of wool's that cleared up. But it took an awful long time to clear anything more up – while people knew some things about Linear B, and why history and how they got to be holding it in their hands, had made and changed the actual language it contained, and its meaning, was a truly intellectual challengelandscape. It was five whole decades of obscurity, annoyingly secretive archaeologists and more, between Sir Arthur Evans finding Linear B She'd grown up on copious clay tablets a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on Cretethe farm'' - and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and its interpretationher mother's friend. In between those two landmarks This was an unsung American heroine, and this book is both an incredibly readable guide to everything regarding Linear B, and a study of in her contributionblood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251320</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Dimbleby1789017977|title=Destiny in the DesertRonnie and Hilda's Romance: The Road to El Alamein - the Battle that Turned the TideTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating=4.5

|summary=El Alamein is a totemic British battle, standing as it does with others which turned Ronnie Williams was the tide son of our fortunesThomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. The Allies There's some doubt as to whether or not they were still smarting from the effects of Dunkirk and harbouring the knowledge that had Hitler elected ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to press his advantage then the situation could have been very different. Churchill is often quoted as saying that there were no victories before El Alamein born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and no defeats afterwardshe might well have shaved a few years off his age. This isn't true For a while the family was quite well- 'it seemed that' is generally omitted from the beginning of the quote to- do but it does sum up disaster struck in the fact that the battle turned the tide of ''perception'' as well as the fortunes of war, which 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was quite an achievement for fighting which took place on land his need to which none of be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the major participants had any legitimate claimarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684455</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1980891117|title=Ruta's ClosetG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=Keith Morgan with Ruth Kron SigalJohn Webley|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryArt|summary=A Holocaust memoir. There, I've said it, and in George Engleheart was one fell swoop I've consigned this book to a niche marketof the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, and with a small – and very much over-supplied – audience. Such books do find it difficult career lasting from the 1770s to get their heads above the parapet and Regency era. He was also one of the voice within heardmost prolific, and it seems they have slowly filled in all the gaps in the available knowledge about the Holocaustpainting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). But Throughout most of that's time he carefully recorded the point that makes those words sound churlish – every life that survived that nightmare has to fill in a gapnames of each of his clients, and account for those who committed the crimes and those that helped out and rescued a survivor, and serve subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as monument to those six million gaps it created. Luckily, mostly on account of location, this his fee book certainly does serve to fill in a wider gap in our perception of WWII than most.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906509263</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016304|title=The Double Cross System War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=J C MastermanMelanie Martin

|summary=This 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 ''VintageThe Diary of Ann Frank'' re-issue of Mastermanbut then realised that her own family's account of stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the work of city during the Twenty Committee is subtitled the 'classic account of World War Two Spy-Masters'. That's war years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a somewhat misleading teasecountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. The book isn't really about Most people believed that the spy-masters, very little information is given about occupation could never happen: even those recruitingwho thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, turningthat the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it did, running and protecting but initial protests melted away as the spiesorganisers became more circumspect. More information - It's an atrocity on a vast scale but again relatively little - is given about the spies themselvesmade up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578239</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris West1908745819|title=First Class: A History of Britain in 36 Postage StampsSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie

|summary=As Sometimes when people suggest that you read a philatelist and lover of historycertain book, I approached 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 book with even more curiosity than usualcalling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The subtitle suggested blurb speaks of the author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a very intriguing approachbad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the natural world, of those aspects of the poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course, but this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would it work? have found its way to me eventually. I’m glad I am pleased to report that have it didfall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224095463</amazonuk>

  {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Mortimer0857058320|title=A History of Cricket in 100 ObjectsLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|genre=SportHistory|summary=[[A History of Football ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in 100 Objects by Gavin Mortimer|A History of Football in 100 Objects]] was a brave attemptthe Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, but was slightly let down by being a little too clinical. Being a game imbued with passionCercas' great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the book lacked this which took some of the edge off it. Cricket, He died relatively young whilst inspiring passion amongst devotees, has a slightly more laid back following; one that may work better in fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this formatdictator. That said, being a game that has been played The question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for five centuries, narrowing it down his great uncle to just 100 objects is no less an undertaking than be a hero whilst having fought for footballthe wrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689406</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Polly Morland0008294011|title=The Society of Timid Souls: 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 Lose a gentleman called Bernard Gabriel. Mr Gabriel was a piano player who founded a unique club, ''Country: The Society of Timid Souls'' that encouraged timid performers and fear-wracked musicians 7 Steps from Democracy to come in out of the cold 'to play, to criticise and be criticised 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>}} {{newreviewDictatorship|author=Paul Strathern|title=The Spirit of Venice: From Marco Polo to CasanovaEce Temelkuran|rating=4.5

|summary=There are several ways of telling 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 history of question ''Discuss the republic of Venice, factors which is generally regarded as the first great economic and naval power of the western worldled to... '' Strathern has chosen to do so largely through the lives of various famous (I agreed that she was right and also infamous) people from Marco Polo in the late thirteenth century to wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what he calls its destruction, all 'both political and symbolicthis', at the hands of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1797was leading to. On the whole, the major events such as its wars are covered fairly brieflyI think now that I do know. An exception, fittingly enough, is made We are in the case danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a chapter on the war which began its decline in the fifteenth centurybetter one, when it tried to hold Thessalonica against particularly as the Ottomans, and sent ships to help defend Constantinople against the Turkish army but found itself heavily defeated in the subsequent lengthy war, 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as a result of which it lost most of its possessionshen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951921</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Hart1788037812|title=The Great WarFraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|summary=There are certain aspects of world history Originally passed in 1885, the law that we are dutyhad made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-bound to teach to each generationsex relationships did not go unchallenged. World War I was called 'The Great War' for a reason; it changed Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the world scene irrevocably nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and is regarded John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the single most important event margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the twentieth century. The war introduced dreadful new weapons designed to slaughter as many people as possible with maximum efficiencyEuropean Continent, resulting but barely talked about in tens the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of millions homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of deathssame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682460</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Palmer1910593508|title=Made to last: The story of Britain's best-known shoe firmApollo|rating=4.5|genre=Business and Finance|summaryauthor=From its founding by the Quaker brothers Cyrus and James Clark in the Somerset village of Street, to its present-day status as a global shoe brand, the name of Clark has weathered many a storm as it draws close to its bicentenary. This account of the company, by a distant kinsman of the two original foundersMatt Fitch, has drawn heavily on the archives Chris Baker and on in-depth interviews with the family to tell the full story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685206</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emily Cockayne|title=Cheek by Jowl: A History of NeighboursMike Collins|rating=4.5

|summary=As Emily Cockayne emphasises at This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the beginning passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of this, the first chapter, almost everyone has authors take a neighbour; if few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you have 've ever read a comic book adaptation of a neighbour, film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are one yourself; scenes missing and neighbours can enrich or ruin our livesthat dialogue has been trimmed. In this engaging book, she takes various case studies This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and anecdotes of living side by side in Britain from around 1200 to the present daystill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546949</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Mortimer1786331047|title=The Time TravellerRace to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Guide to Elizabethan EnglandImperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport

|summary=For many of us, The basic facts about the Elizabethan age which comprised almost half deaths of the Tudor era seems bathed in sunlightNicholas and Alexandra, the gilded era some of Queen Elizabeth's 'sceptred isle'. It was the period in which Gloriana presided over Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of were deliberately obscured at the globetime for various reasons, have long since been established. For the defeat last few months of their lives in Russia the Spanish Armadaformer Tsar and Tsarina, their children and few remaining servants were held in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. To prevent them from being rescued, in July 1918 the literary epoch of Shakespearerevolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to death in circumstances which, Marloweonce the news was confirmed beyond all doubt, Spenser and Sidneyhorrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099542072</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder|title=Thinking the Twentieth Century|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=In emulating historians from his geographical area of interest, Timothy Snyder poses questions to, and discusses ideas with, the highly esteemed British historian and writer Tony Judt, best known for his 2005 ''Postwar''. This collaboration of the older and the younger thinker engenders the spoken book ''Thinking the Twentieth Century'', a rather intriguing exploration of said time period. Each of its ten chapters begins with Judt’s narrative of a specific point in his personal life, and continues into debates of specific facets of history; a healthy mix of thematic and chronological approaches is used for the latter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009956355X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathryn J Prince|title=Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff|rating=4|genre=History|summary=There is no pun intended when I describe the ship ''Wilhelm Gustloff'' as stern. It just seems from looking at her hard and rigid lines that if you were to design a ship that the Nazi party would use as an ideological tool, to take their favoured workers Move on pleasure cruises around the Mediterranean, you would naturally end up with something that looked like her. However fate had it that within years she became a hospital ship, and it wasn't much longer after that that she was stationed in the northern Polish port now known as Gdynia, ready to help in a major evacuation of thousands of desperate, starving and fevered people fleeing the advancing Soviet army. All they wanted to do was to avoid the perilous snowy overland route to get a few miles along the coast, but they weren't to know that within hours of sailing the ''Wilhelm Gustloff'' would be torpedoed, [[Newest Home and many thousands would perish in the near-frozen Baltic waters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023034156X</amazonuk>}}Family Reviews]]