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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Elizabeth Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of YorkEngland by Electric Car|author=Alison WeirClive Wilkinson|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=Elizabeth Clive Wilkinson has a history of York could have ruled England were she not travelling by unconventional means with a woman and were she not born in the fifteenth centurypreference for slow travel. Oldest daughter of Edward IV, she was As he neared his eightieth birthday the heiress idea of exploring the Yorkist dynasty after the death edges of Richard III at Bosworth (and her own younger brothers England in the Tower of London)an electric car was not totally outrageous. Henry VIIIn fact, the first Tudor king it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and victor by conquesthis wife, had at best a tenuous claim to the English throne. He legitimised it by his marriage to Elizabeth and proclaimed it through the Tudor roseJoan, that joining of the emblems of York and Lancaster. Elizabethshouldn's marriage to Henry produced one of our most famous kings in Henry VIII.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546477</amazonuk>t it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09BLBP3P8|title=A Broken WorldNeville Chamberlain's War: LettersHow Great Britain Opposed Hitler, diaries and memories of the Great War1939-1940|author=Sebastian Faulks and Hope WolfFrederic Seager

|summary=Sebastian Faulks Received wisdom and Dr Hope Wolf have expertly brought together this far-reaching collection simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of memories, diaries, letters and postcards written during and after the First early days of World War. While Faulks is II from 1939-40, known as the author of novels such as ''BirdsongPhoney War'' . We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, and ''Charlotte Gray'', Dr Hope Wolf is a research fellow Churchill coming in English at the University of Cambridge, whose doctoral research focused on archives at to save the Imperial War Museumday. The combination of such a respected author, whose most famous (and arguably his best) novel Very little time is set spent on this period in the First World Warcultural reflections and yet, and an academic whose expertise is the as Frederic Seager argues in the same areathis book, means that this fascinating collection hits all it was of vital significance in how the right notes. It's commemorative, poignant and very humanwar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954223</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=3756228711|title=CDC: The Greatest Escape: How one French community saved thousands of lives from the Nazishappy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Peter GroseHans Bodmer|rating=34

|summary=We've read it before and been grateful, and now we can read it again, and for the same reasons – educational, entertainment, moralistic – we can be grateful. We've probably all heard how one place or circumstance – most famously, Oscar Schindler's factory – led to a major underhand rescue operation to keep Jews from being the victims of the Final Solution in World War Two. This book is a further example, but one of a whole French district being complicit in helping defy the Nazi authorities. Centred around Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in the heart The history of southern France, a very rural community based around Huguenot Protestants with their own experiences of religious persecution decided en masse to act as shelter for a whole host of people – mostly children rescued from transit and internment camps elsewhere in France, and the Jewish victims development of the Vichy government rules demanding they be stateless or, worse, victims IT could fill books of a certain one-way train rideseveral hundred pages. But beyond becoming an idyllic place to hide out in plain view, the towns and villages also conspired to actively export the Jews themselves – to places of safety.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886267</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=The Mill Girls|author=Tracy Johnson|rating=5|genre=History|summary=''The Mill Girls'' Author Hans Bodmer is a collection of true stories based on interviews with women who worked at Lancashire's cotton mills during the war yearsquite right about that. Leaving school at He has chosen to tell us about the tender age of 14short, but explosive, the girls were thrown headlong into the world history of work, at a time when jobs were plentiful and the benefits culture we know today was non-existent. The choice was a simple one: work or starve. Conditions were harshControl Data Company, the mills noisyCDC, dangerous and dirty and pay was lowfor whom he worked. Despite thisIt's a fascinating tale, many told in a mixture of the women look back at their time 'in mill' with warm fondness technological summary and nostalgiawry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958288</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Money: The Unauthorised BiographyJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|authortitle=Felix MartinFritz and Kurt

|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=Occasionally books 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 not exactly what they seemturned 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. When I picked But this up, read is the blurb and began time just before the contents insideAustrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, I was expecting and instead of having a kind of biography or history of money through national vote to keep the agesNazis out, invite them in with open arms. The opening chapter''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, a brief sketch as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the economy younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the Pacific island of Yap US, while Fritz and how it workedhis father are, seemed unknown initially to confirm thiseach other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. It tells And us wondering how in the late nineteenth century Yap, east of titular event for the Philippine Islands, had an unwieldy coinage consisting adult variant of stone wheels around 12ft in diameter, called fei. The population did not carry these around, let alone own them like we possess pounds and pence, as they were part of a sophisticated system of credit management.all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578522</amazonuk>024156574X

 {{newreview|title=How Britain Kept Calm and Carried On: Real-life stories from the Home FrontFrontpage|author=Anton Rippon|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=My generation is now at saturation point with 'Keep Calm and Carry On' posters and all the accompanying variations. So much so, I was surprised to learn from this book was that the now ubiquitous poster was never actually distributed. The poster had been planned as part of a campaign to raise morale, but after they were printed, the government felt it would have been seen as patronising, given that Britons were doing exactly that without the government message to bolster them up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178243190X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewJohn Henry Phillips|title=Tudor: The Family Story|author=Leanda de LisleSearch

|summary=With so many recent books published on various aspects of Tudor historyArchaeology cannot be child's play, it becomes harder when you're scraping in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a new angle or approach fair bit harder when you set out to the subjectfind some specific thing. Leanda de Lisle has thus pulled off the almost-impossible. Her starting point This book is not the battle of Bosworth and Henry Tudor’s claiming a case of the throne latter, as King Henry VII in 1485, but an event nearly fifty years earlier, our author promises to locate the death and funeral topic of Catherine de Valoisthe titular search. The widow of King Henry V, Catherine married secondly And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the Welsh squire Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur, known to posterity as Owen Tudor. Their elder son Edmund later married Margaret Beaufort, search area is a descendant of John of Gauntwide one, one of King Edward III’s several sonsthe target might not exist any more – oh, and it was the only child of this union's underwater, born when his mother was he cannot dive. Latching on to a mere girl thirteen years of age, who would become particular D-Day veteran through helping the victor on Bosworth Field.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955528X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Francis Russell|title=101 Places in Italy : A Private Grand Tour|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Initially I struggled to describe this book. Itheroic old man's not a guide book: maps are intended only visit back to France, our author has promised to give you a rough idea of where find the townslanding craft that delivered him to Normandy, cities and villages are - even major rivers are not shownthat he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. There are no opening times of museums or other details which the visitor might need and whilst it's The secondary aim is to erect a tremendous help memorial to everyone else aboard, the tourist there's a sense throughout the book vast majority of their being people who are best avoided if at all possiblewhom perished. November and February seem Who else would make such promises to be the best months for your visit someone in many cases. The 101 places you'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.their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908524324</amazonuk>1472146182

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title=Steaming to Victory: How Britain's Railways Won the WarFlights for Freedom|author=Michael WilliamsSteven Burgauer

|genre=HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary=Soon after It's the end later stages of the First World War, I and the British railways United States has just entered what the conflict. Petrol Petronus is generally regarded as their golden age, with a young American who has signed up and joined the heyday of 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the ‘Big Four’ companiesfirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the LNER (London and North Eastern), LMS (London, Midlands and Scottish), GWR (Great Western) and Southern Railways. By 1939 they were beginning first to lose their virtual monopoly of land-based transport be attached to lorries, buses the RAF and coaches. Nevertheless, as war became increasingly inevitable, they played a vital part in the preparation first to keep be sent into the country moving, keeping industry and skies to fight the war effort supplied, helping Germans in the evacuation of Dunkirkactive combat. But before that can happen, or as their press office put it in a pamphlet of 1943, 'tackling Petrol has to master flying the biggest job in transport history'notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099557673</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0578761718|title=The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart Inspiring History of Hitler's Berlina Special Relationship|author=Daniel James BrownNancy Carver

|summary=Moving back to his native DetroitThe church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, Mark Binelli tries to see where when it all went wrong for a city which was once ''America's capitalist dream town'' but has shrunk more significantly than anywhere else first mentioned in records. Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the country over recent yearsGreat Fire of London in 1666. How did this happenIt was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, and what effect has when it had on was again ruined by bombs during the residents there? Is Blitz. But that wasn't the decline irreversibleend of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, or can those who want the stones from the church's walls were transported to bring about Fulton, Missouri. There, in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and today serves as a changed and improved Detroit succeed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553880</amazonuk>memorial to Winston Churchill.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1784385166|title=Penny Loaves and Butter CheapThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: Britain in 1846A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Stephen BatesRoger Moorhouse|rating=4.5

|summary=Until I picked up this book, I would never have really thought What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of 1846 as the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a pivotal year concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Third Reich's fascist regime in British historyall its iniquity. But some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to you. Stephen Bates In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has proved convincingly in these pages that if it was not exactly a watershed attempted to illustrate the period of the Third Reich through one, it nevertheless marked an era hundred of changeits material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781852545</amazonuk> 

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Books that Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human HistoryLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|authortitle=Andrew TaylorTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|genre=EntertainmentGraphic Novels|summary=Oh I never really followed the pleasure events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when, as a book reviewer, one can simply point to it was playing out – someone in the title and say – 'yupsecond half of their teens has other priorities, that'you know. Or, I suppose, as in certainly didn't know of the non-existent follow-up, Adverts That Changed weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the World, simply repeat students before the mantra 'it does exactly what it says on massacre and the tin'. This paperback edition birth of the six year old original, fresh with several typos they had time to iron out alongside putting in Seamus Heaney's departure, makes life even easierTank Man image, given that subtitle. Ididn'm sure t know how the more bibliophilic are already soldarea had long been a venue for political protest, and there is little influence I can bear didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on thingseither side. I will, however, soldier on This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782069429</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=Letters to the MidwifeClara Colby: Correspondence with the author of ''Call the Midwife''The International Suffragist|author=Jennifer WorthJohn Holliday

|genre=HistoryBiography|summary=[[:Category:Jennifer Worth|Jennifer Worth]], author The path of the bestselling Clara Dorothy Bewick''Call s life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the Midwife'', sadly passed away in May 2011 following a short illnessUSA. Her books have gained a great deal of popularity in recent At the time she was just three-years with their mixture -old but because of warmthsome childhood ailment, sadness she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and humour based three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her experiences working as and saw that she received a midwife good education, both in and out of school. She was the only child in the East End of Londonhousehold and her childhood was glorious. ''Letters to By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the Midwife'' features some mid-west of the treasured letters received by Worth from former work colleagues United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and fans of her booksgrandparents eventually went to join the family. The resulting book is Clara would only know her mother for a rich testament to few 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 life lived fully heavy burden would fall on Clara and to Wisconsin was a very special lady whose memories have managed to inspire and touch so manyrude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297869086</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert A Caro1783784350|title=The Years of Lyndon JohnsonThis Golden Fleece: Means of AscentA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter

|genre=AutobiographyHistory|summary=Itwas December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she's only a matter of days since I finished listening to [[d never met and preparing spreadsheets. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to Power by Robert A Caro|The Years be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power]]the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the first part story of Robert A Carowool's definitive work on the President history and how it had made and despite having just spent over forty hours on changed the book I wanted to learn morelandscape. I was torn though She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - the second book in '' a series is not often as good as free-range child on the first farm'' - and learned to spin, knit and it struck me that these might not be the most exciting years in Johnsonweave from her mother and her mother's lifefriend. Was this book going to be the link which took us on to the more exciting times? Not a bit of itThis was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GSHD0U6</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert A Caro1789017977|title=The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President of the United States, preceded by John F Kennedy and succeeded by Richard Nixon, with both being remembered most for the way they left office. His five-year term in office was overshadowed at the start by the Kennedy assassination Ronnie and increasingly blighted by the debacle which was Vietnam, but there was something about Johnson which always intrigued me: how does a poor boy from Texas hill country without an exceptional (or even Hilda'good') education become president of the United States? 'The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power' tells you all that you need to know.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GSHTJZQ</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=London Bridge in Americas Romance: The Tall Story of Towards a Transatlantic CrossingNew Life after World War II|author=Travis ElboroughWendy Williams

|summary=The concept Ronnie Williams was the son of people from overseas countries buying and owning old Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and long-established British industries and works of art is not newEthel Wall. Yet one of the most unusual sales of this kind occurred 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 March 1968. It 1863, but he was a time of British economic crisis (where already many years older than Ethel and when he might well have we heard that before) and the ‘I’m Backing Britain’ campaign, and shaved a few years off his age. For a time when while the concept of heritage family was unfashionable quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and the authorities seemed five-year-old Ronnie had to attach more value adjust to modernity than a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to relics of the Regency be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the Victorian agearmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565765</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1980891117|title=Born G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in Siberiathe life of George Engleheart|author=Tamara Astafieva, Michael Darlow and Debbie SlaterJohn Webley

|genre=AutobiographyArt|summary=I tend to shy away from reviewing book titlesGeorge Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, but this time it seems appropriate – here it's with a title that doesn't tell you career lasting from the half of 1770s to the storyRegency era. As much as Tamara Astafieva He was born in Siberiaalso one of the most prolific, and returned there several timespainting nearly 5, for many different reasons and with many very different outcomes, this is much more 000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of a picture King George III). Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the Soviet Union as we in Britain think names of it – Moscow, a bit each of Saint Petersburghis clients, and little else. That's not a fault – and again it's not half of the story. The story here subsequently transcribed them into what is so complex, so rich with detail and incident, and itself came about in such an unusual way, that any summary of the referred to as his fee book has its work cut out in defining its many qualities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373343</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016304|title=Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!War and Love: A World without World War Ifamily's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Richard Ned LebowMelanie Martin|rating=4.5

|summary=On the first page of this bookMelanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, we are given a summary particularly in ''The Diary of events from August 2014Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. Queen Elizabeth is hosting a reception for Prince Harry A hundred and his brideseven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a niece of country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the German Kaiser at Balmoralcity were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, while that the governor-general of India is involved Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in preparations for the next Commonwealth Games. This brief glimpse of a fantasy world is followed by a swift resumé of the twentieth centuryway that it did, but initial protests melted away as everything actually happened, and of changes in the world order wrought by both world warsorganisers became more circumspect. Chapter two tells It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of the assassination tens of Archduke Franz Ferdinand thousands of Austria and his wife Sophie at Sarajevo in June 1914, the final catalyst which precipitated the First World Warindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137278536</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Hundred Days|author=Nick LloydFrontpage|ratingisbn=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 in Shrivenham, Wiltshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670920061</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1908745819|title=Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of AuschwitzSurfacing|author=Thomas HardingKathleen Jamie

|summary=There have been so many books written Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on the subject of Egyptologyit''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it would be hard to imagine turns out that anything new could be said on we didn't like the matterbook. That's a rare experience. HoweverPeople who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, TV presenter and researcher Bob Brierrarely get it wrong. In this case, a self-confessed EgyptophileI was told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering ''an older, has managed to approach the topic from less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a unique perspective by allowing us a glimpse of his fascinating collection bad description of all things Egyptianwhere I am. The collection is an eclectic mix Add to that my love of objectsthe natural world, including jewelleryof those aspects of the poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, private letters from Howard Carter, tobacco packaging, booksand substance most of all, posters and tea-setsabout connection. In Brier’s collectionOf course, his ornate Josiah Wedgwood Egyptian set sits proudly this book had my name on the shelf next it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to Barbie of the Nile and a cheap King Tut cologne bottleme eventually. As he puts I am pleased to have it: 'we all know that something can be fall onto my path so bad that it’s goodquickly. The true collector has no shame.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137278609</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0857058320|title=Fred's WarLord Of All the Dead|author=Andrew DavidsonJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating=3.54

|summary=''Fred's WarLord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the story of the 1st Cameronians actions in the 1st world war from 1914 -1915. The pictures themselves tell their own story. They show the happy young author's lost ancestor's life and carefree faces become gaunt, lined and battle-worn as the war progresses, although there is still laughter at timesdeath. The simple warmth of a roaring fire brings such obvious pleasure, that in a way the joy itself Cercas is heart-breaking. Photos like this make one wonder however they ever coined searching for the name meaning behind his great uncle''The Great War''. This looks anything but great. It shows the desolation of ploughed fields which should have been planted to provide nourishment, instead yielding only a harvest of s death and despair. It shows men wading in water nearly to their knees or scurrying like animals in the muckSpanish Civil War. The pictures show the true horror of trench warfare in a way words can notManuel Mena, but thankfully they show only 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 deathCercas' great uncle, or in agony with wounds. This is not the horror of the battlefield or figure who looms large over the immediate aftermath, but instead of mind-numbing cold, hunger and filth - of living conditions so bleak death itself might not seem such a bad optionbook. But it isnHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco't all doom and glooms forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. There are happier scenes as Fred is an officer and billeted comfortably The question at times. There is also the delight centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a death narrowly missed and simple scenes of camaraderiehero whilst having fought for the wrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721811</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Winter0008294011|author=Adam Gopnik|ratingtitle=4|genre=Reference|summary=In this collection of five essays, each one offering a unique and fascinating perspective on the season of winter, Adam Gopnik takes the reader on a captivating journey, exploring history, art and society, through ''Romantic Winter'', ''Radical Winter'', ''Recuperative Winter'', ''Recreational Winter'' and ''Remembering Winter''. In each essay, Gopnik focuses on one or two central themes, whilst also touching on surrounding ideas. For example, in Romantic Winter his central topics are art and poetry, however, issues such as changing society, technology, sex and culture are also explored, in relation How to these pivotal notions. He also includes two sections featuring collections of artwork to illustrate his viewpoints, which add Lose a charming, individual touch Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780874472</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDictatorship|author=Jonathan Mayo|title=The Assassination of JFK Minute by MinuteEce Temelkuran|rating=4.5

|summary=President John F Kennedy had been warned about going A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to Dallas - he himself referred to it as come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question 'nut country' - but, conscious of Discuss the upcoming 1964 presidential elections, he needed factors which led to bring some support from the city onside ...'' 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 why he and the First Lady found themselves in the motorcade which swept into Dealey Plaza on 22 November 1963leading to. I think now that I do know. There can be few people who We are not aware in danger of what happened next, but Jonathan Mayo has presented losing democracy and whilst it's a chronology flawed system I can't think of events over a better one, particularly as the next four days ('benevolent dictator'four days, three murders, hundreds of storiesis as rare as hen'', as the cover says) demonstrating the pressure under which the officials involved were working and the dreadful impact of what happened.s teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721854</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David G Coleman1788037812|title=The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath Fraternity of the Cuban Missile CrisisEstranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=45

|summary=The commonly-held view of history would have us believe Originally passed in 1885, the law that the Cuban Missile Crisis began had made homosexual relations a crime remained in midplace for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-October 1962 sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and concluded 1908, three books on 28 Octoberthe nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, with as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the world heaving a collective sigh margins of relief society and moving studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to think of other things. The truth is, the scientific understanding of coursehomosexuality, rather different and beginning the crisis rumbled on struggle for weeks recognition and months to comeequality, occasionally almost bubbling leading to the boil again as Kennedy and Krushchev fenced with each other. Historian David G Coleman has used the secret White House recordings to take us into the Oval Office and listen to what really went onmilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393346803</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1910593508|title=The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World WarApollo|author=Margaret MacMillanMatt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=4.5

|summary=One could argue that This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the main title subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of this book is slightly questionable, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. Throughout These shortcuts are the half-century or so before only downside to the outbreak book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of hostilities in 1914, Europe had rarely been free from conflict, a film you will be familiar with the Franco-Prussian, Graeco-Turkish slight feeling that there are scenes missing and Balkan wars for that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a start. Nevertheless, the majority of the continent was at peace with itself graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and most of its neighbours during this periodstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668272X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vincent Bugliosi1786331047|title=ParklandThe Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=4.5

|summary=''Parkland'' is not just a book The basic facts about history but a book ''with'' a history. Vincent Bugliosi published ''Reclaiming History: The Assassination the deaths of President John F. Kennedy'' in 2007 with much Nicholas and Alexandra, some of which were deliberately obscured at the book being based on his preparation time for a mock trial of Lee Harvey Oswald which was shown on British televisionvarious reasons, have long since been established. This book was an exhaustive look at what happened in Dallas and at subsequent events such as For the trial last few months of Jack Ruby and the conspiracy theories which have abounded their lives in Russia the intervening fifty years. ''Four Days former Tsar and Tsarina, their children and few remaining servants were held in November: The Assassination of President John Fincreasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. Kennedy'' was published To prevent them from being rescued, in June 2008 July 1918 the revolutionary regime had them all shot and is - as the title suggests - restricted bayoneted to what happened on 22 November 1963 and death in circumstances which, once the following three days. ''Parkland'' is the film tie-news was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in version of that bookEurope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393347338</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Stephen Jin-Nom Lee and Howard Webster|title=Canton Elegy: A Father's Letter of Sacrifice, Survival and Love|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Stephen Jin-Nom Lee, known in his childhood as Ah Nom, was born early in the twentieth century in the village of Dai Waan in rural China. His father died when he was young and he lived with his grandmother, mother and 'Little Uncle', who was only a matter of months older than Ah Nom. They'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 two. Then Grandfather revealed his reason for returning home - he intended Move on to take the boys to America to be educated. It was a wonderful opportunity and Ah Nom left the village [[Newest Home and his mother not knowing when he would see either again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780285736</amazonuk>}}Family Reviews]]