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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francis Russell1785633457|title=101 Places in Italy Charging Around: A Private Grand TourExploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=4.5

|summary=Initially I struggled to describe this book. It's not Clive Wilkinson has a guide book: maps are intended only to give you history of travelling by unconventional means with a rough preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of where exploring the towns, cities and villages are - even major rivers are edges of England in an electric car was not showntotally outrageous. There are no opening times of museums or other details which the visitor might need and whilst In fact, it's should be a tremendous help to the tourist there's a sense throughout the book of their being people who are best avoided if at all possible. November pleasant holiday for Clive and February seem to be the best months for your visit in many cases. The 101 places youhis wife, Joan, shouldn'll visit in the book are given no wider importance than the works of art within them. Finally I accepted that the subtitle of the book - ''A Private Grand Tour'' was the most appropriate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524324</amazonuk>t it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09BLBP3P8|title=Steaming to VictoryNeville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain's Railways Won the WarOpposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Michael WilliamsFrederic Seager

|summary=Soon after Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the end popular imagination of the First early days of World WarII from 1939-40, the British railways entered what is generally regarded known as their golden age, with the heyday of the ‘Big Four’ companies, the LNER (London and North Eastern), LMS (London, Midlands and Scottish), GWR (Great Western) and Southern Railways. By 1939 they were beginning to lose their virtual monopoly of land-based transport to lorries, buses and coaches''Phoney War''. NeverthelessWe remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, as war became increasingly inevitablebreaking out, they played a vital part and Churchill coming in the preparation to keep save the country moving, keeping industry day. Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and the war effort suppliedyet, helping as Frederic Seager argues in the evacuation of Dunkirkthis book, or as their press office put it was of vital significance in a pamphlet of 1943, 'tackling how the biggest job in transport history'war played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099557673</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin3756228711|authortitle=Daniel James Brown|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=You see, Jesse Owens had it easy – all he had to do was run fast. Alright, he did have to face unknown hardship, heinous prejudice at home and abroad, and make sure he was fast enough to outdo the rest of his compatriots then the worldCDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 's best to win gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but others who wished to do the same had to do more. People such as those rowers in the coxed eights squad – people such as young Joe Rantz. He certainly had to face hardship, the prejudice borne by those in the moneyed east coast yacht clubs against an upstart from the NW USA, and when he got to compete he had to use so many more muscles, and operate at varying tempi, with the temperament of the weather and water against him, all in perfect synchronicity with seven other beefcakes. Despite rowing being the second greatest ticket at those Games, JoePhenomena's story is a lot less well known, and probably a lot more entertaining.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447210980</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant|author=Mark BinelliHans Bodmer

|summary=Moving back to his native Detroit, Mark Binelli tries to see where it all went wrong for a city which was once ''America's capitalist dream townThe history of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'' but has shrunk more significantly than anywhere else in the country over recent years. How did this happen, and what effect has it had on the residents there? Is the decline irreversible, or can those who want to bring about a changed and improved Detroit succeed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553880</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Penny Loaves and Butter Cheap: Britain in 1846|author=Stephen Bates|rating=4Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that.5|genre=History|summary=Until I picked up this book, I would never have really thought of 1846 as a pivotal year in British history. Stephen Bates He has proved convincingly in these pages that if it was not exactly a watershed one, it nevertheless marked an era of change.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781852545</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Books that Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History|author=Andrew Taylor|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=Oh the pleasure when, as a book reviewer, one can simply point chosen to tell us about the title and say – 'yup, that'. Or, I suppose, as in the non-existent follow-upshort, Adverts That Changed the Worldbut explosive, simply repeat the mantra 'it does exactly what it says on the tin'. This paperback edition history of the six year old original, fresh with several typos they had time to iron out alongside putting in Seamus Heaney's departureControl Data Company, makes life even easierCDC, given that subtitlefor whom he worked. IIt'm sure the more bibliophilic are already solds a fascinating tale, told in a mixture of technological summary and there is little influence I can bear on things. I will, however, soldier onwry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782069429</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Letters to the Midwife: Correspondence with the author of ''Call the Midwife''Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|authortitle=Jennifer WorthFritz and Kurt

|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=[[:Category:Jennifer Worth|Jennifer Worth]]We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, author of doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the bestselling ''Call empty market place, helping the Midwife''neighbours, sadly passed away in May 2011 following being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a short illnessvocational school. Her books have gained a great deal of popularity in recent years with Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their mixture of warmth, sadness very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and humour based on her experiences working workmanlike as a midwife in the East End of Londonlight switch. ''Letters to But this is the Midwife'' features some of time just before the treasured letters received by Worth from former work colleagues and fans of her books. The resulting book Austrian leader is a rich testament going to a life lived fully and to a very special lady whose memories have managed cave to inspire and touch so many.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297869086</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert A Caro|title=The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=ItHitler's only a matter of days since I finished listening to [[The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A Caro|The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power]]will, the first part and instead of Robert A Caro's definitive work on the President and despite having just spent over forty hours on a national vote to keep the book I wanted to learn moreNazis out, invite them in with open arms. I was torn though - the second book ''Kristallnacht'' happened in a series is not often Vienna just as much as good in Germany, as did all the first and it struck me that these might not be the most exciting years in Johnson's liferound-ups of Jews. Was this book going These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to be Britain or the link which took us US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the more exciting times? stone quarry there. Not a bit And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of it.all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00GSHD0U6</amazonuk>024156574X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert A CaroJohn Henry Phillips|title=The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to PowerSearch

|summary=The concept of people from overseas countries buying and owning old and long-established British industries and works of art is Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not newalways confident what. Yet one Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of the most unusual sales latter, as our author promises to locate the topic of this kind occurred in March 1968the titular search. It was And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a time of British economic crisis (where wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when have we heard he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that before) and the ‘I’m Backing Britain’ campaigndelivered him to Normandy, and a time when the concept of heritage that he was unfashionable and the authorities seemed lucky to attach more value survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to modernity than erect a memorial to relics everyone else aboard, the vast majority of the Regency and the Victorian agewhom perished.Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099565765</amazonuk>1472146182

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title=Born in SiberiaFlights for Freedom|author=Tamara Astafieva, Michael Darlow and Debbie SlaterSteven Burgauer

|genre=AutobiographyHistorical Fiction|summary=I tend to shy away from reviewing book titles, but this time it seems appropriate – here itIt's a title that doesn't tell you the half later stages of World War I and the storyUnited States has just entered the conflict. As much as Tamara Astafieva was born in Siberia, and returned there several times, for many different reasons and with many very different outcomes, this Petrol Petronus is much more of a picture of young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the Soviet Union as we first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Britain think of it – Moscow, a bit of Saint PetersburgCanada, the first to be attached to the RAF and little else. That's not a fault – and again it's not half of the storyfirst to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. The story here is so complexBut before that can happen, so rich with detail and incident, and itself came about in such an unusual way, that any summary of Petrol has to master flying the book has its work cut out in defining its many qualitiesnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373343</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0578761718|title=Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War IThe Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Richard Ned LebowNancy Carver

|summary=On The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the first page City of this bookLondon from at least 1181, we are given a summary of events from August 2014when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, Queen Elizabeth is hosting a reception for Prince Harry and his bride, a niece of the German Kaiser at Balmoral, while original church was destroyed in the governor-general Great Fire of India is involved London in 1666. It was rebuilt in preparations Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the next Commonwealth GamesBlitz. This brief glimpse But that wasn't the end of its story: after a fantasy world is followed by a swift resumé of phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the twentieth centurychurch's walls were transported to Fulton, as everything actually happenedMissouri. There, and of changes in the world order wrought by both world wars. Chapter two tells grounds of Westminster College, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria church was rebuilt and his wife Sophie at Sarajevo in June 1914, the final catalyst which precipitated the First World Wartoday serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137278536</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Hundred Days1784385166|authortitle=Nick Lloyd|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Nick Lloyd is a historian. Well, actually he's a lecturer in ''Defence Studies'' at Kings College London - based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College The Third Reich in Shrivenham, Wiltshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670920061</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Hanns and Rudolf100 Objects: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant A Material History of AuschwitzNazi Germany|author=Thomas HardingRoger Moorhouse

|summary=There have been so many books written on What is the subject first image that comes to mind when you think of Egyptology, it would be hard to imagine that anything new could be said on the matter. However, TV presenter and researcher Bob Brier, a self-confessed Egyptophile, has managed Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to approach the topic from a unique perspective by allowing us a glimpse concentration camp? None of his fascinating collection these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Third Reich's fascist regime in all things Egyptianits iniquity. The collection is an eclectic mix of But some objects, including jewellery, private letters and images from Howard Carter, tobacco packaging, books, posters and tea-setsthat time may be less familiar to you. In Brier’s collectionthis short volume, his ornate Josiah Wedgwood Egyptian set sits proudly on Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the shelf next to Barbie period of the Nile and a cheap King Tut cologne bottle. As he puts it: 'we all know that something can be so bad that it’s good. The true collector has no shameThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137278609</amazonuk> 

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fred's WarLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|authortitle=Andrew DavidsonTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating=34.5|genre=HistoryGraphic Novels|summary=''Fred's War'' is I never really followed the story events of the 1st Cameronians actions Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the 1st world war from 1914 -1915. The pictures themselves tell second half of their own storyteens has other priorities, you know. They show I certainly didn't know of the happy young weeks of protests and carefree faces become gaunt, lined hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and battle-worn as the war progresses, although there is still laughter at times. The simple warmth birth of a roaring fire brings such obvious pleasurethe Tank Man image, that in a way the joy itself is heart-breaking. Photos like this make one wonder however they ever coined the name I didn''The Great War''. This looks anything but great. It shows t know how the desolation of ploughed fields which should have area had long been planted to provide nourishmenta venue for political protest, instead yielding only a harvest of death and despair. It shows men wading in water nearly to their knees or scurrying like animals in the muck. The pictures show the true horror of trench warfare in I didn't know more than a way words can not, but thankfully they show only spit about the lulls between battles. There are no scenes of horror as men are blown to bits. I think the men of this time had too much respect to photograph comrades in the throes of death, or in agony with woundspeople involved on either side. This book is not the horror of the battlefield or the immediate aftermath, but instead of mind-numbing cold, hunger and filth - of living conditions so bleak death itself might not seem such practically flawless in giving a bad option. But it isngeneral browser't all doom and gloom. There are happier scenes as Fred is an officer and billeted comfortably at times. There is also s context for the delight whole season of a death narrowly missed and simple scenes of camaraderieprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780721811</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=WinterClara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=Adam GopnikJohn Holliday

|genre=ReferenceBiography|summary=In this collection The path of five essays, each one offering a unique and fascinating perspective on Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the season time she was just three-years-old but because of wintersome childhood ailment, Adam Gopnik takes the reader on a captivating journeyshe wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, exploring historyshe remained with her grandparents, art who doted on her and societysaw that she received a good education, through ''Romantic Winter'', ''Radical Winter'', ''Recuperative Winter'', ''Recreational Winter'' both in and ''Remembering Winter''out of school. In each essay, Gopnik focuses on one or two central themes, whilst also touching on surrounding ideas She was the only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. For example By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in Romantic Winter his central topics are art the mid-west of the United States and poetry, howeverlife was hard, issues such as changing societyClara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, technologyhad ten pregnancies, sex seven surviving children and culture are also explored, died in relation to these pivotal notionschildbirth not long after Clara arrived. He also includes two sections featuring collections of artwork to illustrate his viewpoints As the eldest girl, which add a charming, individual touch to this bookheavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780874472</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Mayo1783784350|title=The Assassination of JFK Minute by MinuteThis Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=45

|summary=President John F Kennedy had been warned about going It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to Dallas - he himself people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. referred January was going to it as 'nut country' - but, conscious be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the upcoming 1964 presidential electionsBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, he needed to bring some support from discovering and telling the city onside story of wool's history and that was why he how it had made and changed the First Lady found themselves in the motorcade which swept into Dealey Plaza on 22 November 1963landscape. There can be few people who are not aware of what happened next, but Jonathan Mayo has presented She'd grown up on a chronology of events over the next four days (sheep farm in Suffolk - ''four days, three murders, hundreds of storiesa free-range child on the farm''- and learned to spin, as the cover says) demonstrating the pressure under which the officials involved were working knit and weave from her mother and the dreadful impact of what happenedher mother's friend. This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721854</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David G Coleman1789017977|title=The Fourteenth DayRonnie and Hilda's Romance: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile CrisisTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams

|summary=The commonly-held view Ronnie Williams was the son of history would Thomas 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 us believe that the Cuban Missile Crisis began been born in mid-October 1962 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and concluded on 28 October, with the world heaving he might well have shaved a collective sigh of relief and moving on to think of other thingsfew years off his age. The truth is, of course, rather different and For a while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the crisis rumbled on for weeks 1929 Depression and months five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to come, occasionally almost bubbling a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to the boil again as Kennedy be well-turned-out and Krushchev fenced this would stay with each otherhim throughout his life. Historian David G Coleman has used He joined the secret White House recordings to take us into the Oval Office and listen to what really went onarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393346803</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1980891117|title=The War that Ended PeaceG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: How Europe abandoned peace for A year in the First World Warlife of George Engleheart|author=Margaret MacMillanJohn Webley

|summary=One could argue 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 Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the main title of war years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this book is slightly questionablecould be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Throughout Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the half-century or so before Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the outbreak of hostilities Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in 1914, Europe had rarely been free from conflictthe way that it did, with but initial protests melted away as the Franco-Prussian, Graeco-Turkish and Balkan wars for a startorganisers became more circumspect. Nevertheless, the majority It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of the continent was at peace with itself and most thousands of its neighbours during this periodindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668272X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vincent Bugliosi1908745819|title=ParklandSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating=4.5

|summary=Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''Parklandthis one has your name on it'' is . Mostly we take them at their word, or not just a book about history , but a rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the book . That''with'' s a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a historybook calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. Vincent Bugliosi published The blurb speaks of the author considering ''Reclaiming History: The Assassination an older, less tethered sense of President John Fherself. Kennedy'' in 2007 with much of the book being based on his preparation for Older. Less tethered. That's not a mock trial bad description of Lee Harvey Oswald which was shown on British televisionwhere I am. This book was an exhaustive look at what happened in Dallas and at subsequent events such as Add to that my love of the trial natural world, of Jack Ruby those aspects of the poetic and the conspiracy theories which have abounded in the intervening fifty yearslyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. ''Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John FIt was written for me. Kennedy'' was published in June 2008 and is - as the title suggests - restricted It would have found its way to what happened on 22 November 1963 and the following three daysme eventually. ''Parkland'' is the film tie-in version of that bookI am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393347338</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Jin-Nom Lee and Howard Webster0857058320|title=Canton Elegy: A Father's Letter of Sacrifice, Survival Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and LoveAnne McLean (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyHistory|summary=Stephen Jin-Nom Lee, known in ''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 childhood as Ah Nom, was born early in the twentieth century great uncle's death in the village of Dai Waan in rural ChinaSpanish Civil War. His father died when he was young and he lived with his grandmotherManuel Mena, mother and 'Little UncleCercas'great uncle, is the figure who was only a matter of months older than Ah Nomlooms large over the book. TheyHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco'd become friends as they grew older, but when his Grandfather returned after a long absence in America there as a distinct rivalry between the twos forces. Then Grandfather revealed Cercas ruminates on why his reason uncle fought for returning home - he intended to take this dictator. The question at the boys to America centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be educated. It was a wonderful opportunity and Ah Nom left hero whilst having fought for the village and his mother not knowing when he would see either againwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780285736</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Adams0008294011|title=The King in the NorthHow to Lose a Country: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran

|summary=Born A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in 604 and around for only 38 years, Oswald didn't live that long but he packed a lot in. Born into Bernician royalty, Oswald the teenager had to flee come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with his mother and siblings when his father Aelfrith was killed at the Battle of question ''Discuss the River Idlefactors which led to... '' Any noble wanting to beat his way I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to the top would naturally kill Oswald's family and so an obscure upbringing in Ireland seemed the answer. However, Oswald grows strong and bides his time until he comes home and clears his own path, ruling Northumbria for 8 years until his own untimely demiseI think now that I do know. During those 8 years he united kingdoms, helped establish Christianity We are in danger of losing democracy and became the inspiration whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of writers a better one, particularly as disparate as St Bede and Tolkien. As Oswald became St Oswald he left behind the 'benevolent dictator' is as many legends rare as historical events and this book seeks to separate the man from the myth while explaining the time we call the Dark Ages in the brutally separated lands that we now call Great Britain and Irelandhen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781854181</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=Empress Dowager CixiThe Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Jung ChangBrian Anderson

|summary=''The Explorer Gene'' relates Originally passed in 1885, the remarkable story of law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three generations books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the Piccard family, each of whom managed to push heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the boundaries margins of travel society and break new frontiers. The grandfather, Auguste Piccard studying homosexuality was common on the first human to enter European Continent, but barely talked about in the stratosphereUK, using en experimental balloon so the publications of his own invention. His later work, designing submarines, enabled his son Jacques to become the first person to descend these men were hugely significant – contributing to the bottom scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the infamous Mariana trenchstruggle for recognition and equality, setting a world record for the deepest dive. Grandson Bertrand became the first person leading to fly around the world in a balloon and now seeks to break new records by means milestone legalisation of a solarsame-powered craft that he intends to pilot all the way around the earthsex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720890</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold1910593508|title=Tudor Monastery Farm: Life in rural England 500 years agoApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=45

|summary=Think This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the 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 it as time travelthis, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. Three professional historians have travelled back some five hundred years These shortcuts are the only downside to put what they've learned into practicethe book. On a monastery farm theyIf you've experienced what it was really like in rural Tudor England. It's ever read a comic book to accompany the BBC television series but it's still adaptation of a rich and rewarding experience if - like me - film you missed will be familiar with the showslight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. There's This is a wealth of experience between the graphic novel that could easily have been three authors times as long and they write about what they each know best and it's all supplemented by some sumptuous photographs of Bayleaf Farm in west Sussex and the surrounding farmlandstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849906920</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786331047|title=High MindsThe Race to Save the Romanovs: The Victorians and Truth Behind the Birth of Modern BritainSecret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Simon HefferHelen Rappaport|rating=4.5

|summary=Between 1840 The basic facts about the deaths of Nicholas and 1880 British life and society underwent a gradual but major change. Young adults in Alexandra, some of which were deliberately obscured at the latter year would time for various reasons, have seen a very different country from that in which an earlier generation came to maturitylong since been established. The land For the last few months of their lives in which povertyRussia the former Tsar and Tsarina, disease, squalor their children and injustice few remaining servants were endemicheld in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. To prevent them from being rescued, in July 1918 the revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to death in circumstances which , once the Chartists had agitated for fairer rights for news was confirmed beyond alldoubt, had been largely transformed by the modernising factors of social upheaval and industrial changehorrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946771</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Anthony Summers|title=Not In Your Lifetime: The Assassination of JFK|rating=4.5|genre=True Crime|summary=Originally published as ''The Kennedy Conspiracy'', Anthony Summers has massively revised the text, updated it with the latest evidence and it's been republished as ''Not in Your Lifetime: The Assassination of JFK'' which refers to the statement made by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was asked if the truth about what happened would come out. He said that it would, but added the rider that ''it might not be in your lifetime''. Fifty years Move on most of the people directly involved are now dead, but the truth has not officially emerged. In fact, it's difficult to avoid the thought that the US government would prefer that it did not see the light of day. Further documents are due to be released in 2017, but, in the meantime Anthony Summer has examined what is available, investigated on his own behalf [[Newest Home and given us this comprehensive book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755365429</amazonuk>}}Family Reviews]]