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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Paul OClive 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 edges 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'Keeffet it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09BLBP3P8|title=WaterlooNeville Chamberlain's War: The AftermathHow Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager
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|summary=There have been several accounts Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the battle early days of Waterloo World War II from 1939-40, known as the ''Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, and of Churchill coming in to save the events that led up to itday. But it Very little time is always interesting to discover a spent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book which finds a different way , it was of telling vital significance in how the tale, or in this case focusing more on what happened directly afterwardswar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563797</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Buk-Swienty3756228711|title=1864CDC: The forgotten war that shaped modern Europehappy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer
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|summary=''The brief but bloody clash history of the development of IT could fill books of arms between Denmark and Prussia which took place in 1864 several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. He has never been regarded as one chosen to tell us about the short, but explosive, history of the major 19th century European warsControl Data Company, CDC, and I cannot recall having ever seen a single volume devoted to it so farfor whom he worked. In this book, which forms the basis of It's a new TV drama seriesfascinating tale, Tom Buk-Swienty has done us a service told in reminding us that it had a far greater political impact than we may have appreciatedmixture of technological summary and wry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252769</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy TreglownDronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture Fritz and Memory Since 1936Kurt|rating=3.54|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=With ''Franco’s Crypt'' Jeremy Treglown has taken a highly charged subject – life We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in Spain under Franco 1930s Vienna would want to do – and placed kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it under what comes to some might appear the synagogue choir and at a somewhat revisionist microscopevocational school. His aim appears Kurt has to be twofold: make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to consider cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the nature of collective memoryNazis out, particularly invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the light round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the exhumations younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of mass graves that commenced earlier this centuryan evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz andhis father are, secondlyunknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to examine – Buchenwald and celebrate - Spain’s cultural output during Franco’s years as dictatorthe stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784701157</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek NiemannJohn Henry Phillips|title=A Nazi in the Family: The Hidden Story of an SS Family in Wartime GermanySearch
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|summary=It goes almost without saying that sixteenth-century EnglandArchaeology cannot be child's play, at when you're scraping in the height of religious persecutiondirt looking to find what you can find, was often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a pretty perilous agefair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. Queen Mary was notorious for This book is a case of the latter, as our author promises to locate the number topic of Protestants who were burnt at the stake titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for their beliefs during her five-year reignhimself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. A belief widely held by many (depending Latching on your religionto a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, as likely as not) was that during our author has promised to find the forty-five years landing craft that ‘Good Queen Bess’ reigneddelivered him to Normandy, greater toleration held swayand that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. This has recently been disproved beyond doubt by several historiansThe secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, and this book likewise helps to underline the savagery towards Catholics that was endemic under her rulevast majority of whom perished.Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784700053</amazonuk>1472146182
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David GreeneB09F4CTKJR|title=Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of RussiaFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer
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|genre=Politics and SocietyHistorical Fiction|summary=It's no mistake that the cover later stages of my edition of this book is a photo where World War I and the Trans-Siberian Railway is horizontal in the frame. It's well known for going east-west, left to right across United States has just entered the map of the largest country by far in the worldconflict. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow to the eastern stretches of Russia, it could only be a long, thin line across the cover, as it Petrol Petronus is in our imagination of it as a form of transport young American who has signed up and a travel destination in its own rightjoined the 17 Aero Squadron. So when this book mentions it as This company was the spine or backbone of Russia a couple of times, that's got first US Aero Squadron to be of a prone Russia – one lying downtrained in Canada, not upright or active. David Greene, a stalwart of northern American radio journalism, uses this book to see just how active or otherwise Russia and Russians are – and finds their lying down the first to be quite a definite verdict, as well as a slight indictment. It's no mistake either for this cover attached to have people in the frame alongside the train carriages, for the people met both riding RAF and living alongside the tracks of first to be sent into the Railway are definitely skies to fight the ribs of Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the piecenotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Bates0578761718|title=1815: Regency Britain in the Year The Inspiring History of Waterlooa Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver
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|summary=The idea church of taking a pivotal year St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the past and devoting original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a whole book to design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the themefire and then survived for centuries until World War II, embracing politicalwhen it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, social and military historythe stones from the church's walls were transported to Fulton, is a very interesting oneMissouri. Stephen Bates did so successfully not long ago with ‘Two Nations: Britain There, in 1846’the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and here he does the same again, taking today serves as a step three decades backmemorial to Winston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858217</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lena Mukhina and Amanda Love Darragh (translator)1784385166|title=The Diary of Lena MukhinaThird Reich in 100 Objects: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=If life as a girl of school-leaving age is hard enough, think about it when you're stuck in a great city under a horrendous siege. Lena Mukhina's diary only covers half the 800-odd days the nightmare in Leningrad lasted, but so palpably singular were the circumstances that it feels like one is given the clearest insight into what it was like, courtesy of these pages. I've been there and never felt the ghost of the siege in the modern St Petersburg, anything like (for example) the ruination of Warsaw had lived on. But a dreadful time this was. At the peak times Material History of Nazi oppression and aerial bombing, the city lost 2 or 3 residents' lives ''every minute'' of the day on average. The city was desperate for fuel, and food – and this is a place where it can – and does here – snow in June. Without giving too much of the diet away, it's notable that later on Lena dreams of having a menagerie of small animals to live with – but no dogs or cats.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144726987X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGermany|author=Jerry White|title=Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World WarRoger Moorhouse
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|summary=It seems What is the first image that only recently, with comes to mind when you think of the centenary Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of the outbreak these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the First World War upon us, Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and images from that historians have really looked thoroughly at the social history aspect and the effect it had on the population at hometime may be less familiar to you. Jerry WhiteIn this short volume, who Roger Moorhouse has already made a study attempted to illustrate the period of London over the last three centuries or so in previous titles, now turns his attention to life in the capital during those momentous four yearsThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556049</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David EsterlyLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=The Lost CarvingTiananmen 1989: A Journey to Our Shattered Hopes|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I 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, you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the Heart whole season of Makingprotests back in 1989.|isbn=1684056993}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday
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|summary=Kaiser Wilhelm II is well known and not for the best The path of reasons and heClara Dorothy Bewick's certainly over-shadowed his six younger siblingslife was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. John Van der Kiste's first biography At the time she was just three-years-old but because of his fathersome childhood ailment, Kaiser Friedrich III she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and he has also written about Emperor Wilhelm II so he is well placed to write about the three youngest children Kaiser Friedrich and Victoria, Princess Royalbrothers. Originally he intended to write about Friedrich's second daughterInstead, she remained with her grandparents, but it quickly became obvious who doted on her and saw that the most satisfying biography - for reader and author - would be she received a biography of Victoriagood education, Sophie both in and Margaret, their mother's ''kleebatt'' or trio, as they were known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00QKROC9W</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Weight|title=MOD: From Bebop to Britpop, Britain's Biggest Youth Movement|rating=5|genre=History|summary=''Mod'' is arguably a rather-overused termout of school. First of all, there is She was the only child in the matter of establishing a precise definitionhousehold and her childhood was glorious. ''Modernism''By contrast, which was soon abbreviated for convenience, began as her family had become pioneer farmers in the workingmid-class movement west of a newly affluent nation. Once the age of immediate post-war austerity United States and life was gonehard, the cult of a youth keen as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to shake off join the drab conformity of life in 1950s Britain took holdfamily. It Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was more than anything else an amalgam of American music married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and European fashionsdied in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, beginning as a popular cult heavy burden would fall on Clara and gradually becoming Wisconsin was a mainstream culturerude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099597888</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)1783784350|title=Massacre in NorwayThis Golden Fleece: The 2011 Terror Attack on Oslo and the Utoya Youth Camp|rating=2.5|genre=History|summary=Anders Behring Breivik was 32 when he both planted a van bomb in OsloA Journey Through Britain's central government district to hit out at what he thought was 'Cultural Marxism', which killed 8, then left for an island in a lake 24 miles away, where a notably political youth gathering was enjoying itself. He gunned down 69 people – more than one in ten of those at the camp – and wounded many scores more. He also spammed countless people with another of his projects, a lengthy manifesto declaring his ideas about Islamisation and what he saw as a pernicious multiculturalism ruining his country. His case was one of the more superlative events in modern Nordic history – as was the surprisingly lenient sentence for over 70 lives of just 21 years. This is, as you'd expect, one of the many books to result from the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612346685</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKnitted History|author=Dan Jones|title=Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great CharterEsther Rutter
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|summary=For what do we – It was December and by courtesy of a lengthy timeline Esther Rutter was stuck in historyher office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the Americans likewise – most likely owe thanks to a spigurnel? What is length and breadth of the most revered legal document in historyBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, which sets out discovering and telling the rights story of man – but also has time to talk about widowswool' rights, fish traps, s history and to be both sexist how it had made and to discuss changed the landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the importance farm'' - and learned to peoplespin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's estates to debts owed Jewish moneylenders? friend. What will probably be the only notable historical experience of Britain This was in 1215, when we finally get diverted from thinking about WWI and discuss the 800 years of something else, even though the authority of no less than the Pope declared it null and void within ten weeks of its being finished?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858853</amazonuk>her blood.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Iain Gately1789017977|title=Rush HourRonnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams
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|summary=Rush HourRonnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. 500 Million commuters go through it every day, and itThere's hard some doubt as to avoid - whether like me you're a jaded Londoner stuck in someoneor not they were ever married or even Harry's armpit whilst attempting birthdate: he claimed to read on have been born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a cramped tube, or trying few years off his age. For a while the family was quite well-to navigate busy country lanes -do but disaster struck in order to do the school run 1929 Depression and get five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to work on time, we've probably all experienced itbe well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. But have you ever thought about He joined the history of it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781854068</amazonuk>army at eighteen in 1942.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Evans1980891117|title=Merchant AdventurersG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: The Voyage A year in the life of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England George Engleheart|author=John Webley
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|genre=HistoryArt|summary=We tend George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a career lasting from the 1770s to associate the golden age Regency era. He was also one of global navigation and exploration with the Elizabethan age and such luminaries as Drakemost prolific, painting nearly 5, Raleigh and Hawkins000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). This book does us all a service in reminding us Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the original pioneersnames of each of his clients, whom they overshadowed and who seem less well-remembered these dayssubsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780221029</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Marriott1789016304|title=War and Love: A History family's testament of the World anguish, endurance and devotion in Numbersoccupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=45
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|summary=Make no mistake, this book does Melanie Martin read about what it says on the cover. That also goes happened to say that it is ''not'' A History of the Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary ofAnn Frank'' Numbers, or A History of the Worldbut then realised that her own family's Numbers stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and what they might meanseven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, as other books providebut only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. This is a primer of Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the world's historycity were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, right from that the earliest days of civilisation up Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the close of World War Twoway that it did, in handy bite-sized chunks, where but initial protests melted away as the headline data can be given using organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a numbervast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432175</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1908745819|title=Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under HitlerSurfacing|author=Philip BallKathleen Jamie|rating=4.5
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|summary=Picture yourself in Nazi Germany, at any time of the Reich's powers. What do Sometimes when people suggest that you doread a certain book, and how do they tell you behave? Do you recognise the fact Jews are being oppressed and have been since the first days of the Nazi regime? Do you do anything about ''thisone has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or are you aware of not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the problems the country has had due to losing the Great War and having the whole Weimar Republic and hyperinflation, and just look after number one? Now picture yourself as book. That's a scientistrare experience. All you've known your adult life has been People who are sensitive to furthering hearing a book calling your knowledge inname, sayrarely get it wrong. In this case, physicsI was told why. Do you again work purely for your own ends? For The blurb speaks of the countryauthor considering ''s – knowing all about its rulers? Or can you segregate your bosses and their leaders from your needsan older, and perhaps seek knowledge for the sake less tethered sense of the world? herself.'' ItOlder. Less tethered. That's probably not a conundrum bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the natural world, of those aspects of the poetic and lyrical that has hit you beforeare about style not form, and substance most of all, given its scientific bentabout connection. Of course, but this book had my name on it's worth looking at what . It was going on at that timewritten for me. Which It would have found its way did Planck walk? to me eventually. Did Heisenberg I am pleased to have principles?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581647</amazonuk>it fall onto my path so quickly.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0857058320|title=Slideshow: Memories of a Wartime ChildhoodLord Of All the Dead|author=Marjorie Ann WattsJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating=3.54
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|summary=''SlideshowLord Of All the Dead'' may seem an unusual title for is a book about growing up during journey to uncover the Second World War, but author Marjorie Ann Watts is quick to explain why it was chosen. Her job as a book illustrator and artist requires astute observation skills and she has what might be known as a 'photographic memorys lost ancestor', or a gift for recalling specific scenes from her past in great details life and death. She explains it this way: 'All I have to do Cercas is pull a 'slide' from searching for the accumulated silt of memory...there it is: a varnish-clear image as vivid as the day it was recorded, however long ago.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373599</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Hitlermeaning behind his great uncle's Furies: German Women death in the Nazi Killing Fields|author=Wendy Lower|rating=3Spanish Civil War.5|genre=History|summary=If one were to describe the Nazi regime with one's own adjectivesManuel Mena, ICercas'm sure that sooner or latergreat uncle, after all is the ruder and more pejorative emotional ones had been thought of, 'masculine' would come up. Let's face it, it would be a scholar who could name any leading female Nazis beyond Eva Braun and Mrs Goebbels, figure who nobody I think has ever put at looms large over the forefront of actual policy, thinking or actionsbook. But there were females at the front – many thousands, it seems, taking themselves away from Germany with ideas of the He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco''Lebensraum'' being opened up out East; moving their skills as either secretary, nurse, teacher or just willing ''Hausfrau'' to the occupied territories, where… well, that would be tellings forces. This book is the one to read if you want that told, but it doesn't do it in the most brilliant wayCercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572281</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard|author=Rochus Misch|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=I am proud to declare an interest in all things Holocaust, one of question at the key areas centre of which was the last days of Hitler – the Downfall, if you like, way before youtube satirists. So this book, from the man who is whether it is possible for some unspecified years was the last eye-witness to have been in the Fuhrerbunker at the end of the Nazi regime, was always going his great uncle to be a great read. It remained that even after the foreword dismissed its own book, pointing out differences here to the canon of thought about the timings etc of April/May 1945, and declaring the author somewhat naïve in not being so aware, circumspect and authoritative about hero whilst having fought for the major points of WWIIwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848327498</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008294011|title=How to Lose a Country: The Making of Home7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Judith FlandersEce Temelkuran
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|summary=It has been over 125 A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years since to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the first Sherlock Holmes story was written and since then, question ''Discuss the character has been subject factors which led to countless interpretations on stage, screen ...'' I agreed that she was right and in literature. Such wasn't certain whether it was the popularity of the famous detective, a good or bad thing that his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, attempted on more than one occasion to we didn'free himselft know what all ' from Holmes, the most notable example being his this'death' at Reichenbach Falls. Readers were most upset and Doyle eventually bowed was leading to public pressure, reviving the eponymous hero for further adventures. In the years I think now that followed, Holmes took on I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a life independent flawed system I can't think of his authora better one, particularly as his stories were adapted for stage and film. An unconcerned Doyle allowed free rein with the character, famously saying: 'You may marry or murder or do whatever you like with himbenevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958725</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=WitchesThe Fraternity of the Estranged: James I and the English Witch HuntsThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Tracy BormanBrian Anderson|rating=4.5
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|summary=Gossip is as old as human natureOriginally passed in 1885, but generally harmless. It was the law that had made homosexual relations a different matter crime remained in medieval timesplace for 82 years. But during this time, when what might start as relatively innocuous tittlerestrictions on same-tattle could breed suspicionsex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, paranoia, and ultimately accusations against women and girls three books on the nature of witchcrafthomosexuality appeared. More often than not, it would end in a horrible death They were written by execution - drowningtwo homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, strangulation as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the gallowsEuropean Continent, or being burned alive. The unsavoury business of witchcraft trials but barely talked about in early seventeenth-century England was encouraged by King James Ithe UK, who with his obsession with and knowledge so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the black arts scientific understanding of homosexuality, and his firm belief in beginning the threat of demonic forces believed that witches had been responsible struggle for fierce storms that had come close recognition and equality, leading to drowning his future bride on her voyage by sea from Scotland to Englandthe milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954914X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1910593508|title=Rest in PiecesApollo|author=Bess LovejoyMatt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=45
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|summary=All sorts has happened This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to deceased famous people - stolenthe Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, soldChris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of this, stuffed, etcthe authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. Bess Lovejoy has collected These shortcuts are the only downside to the fates book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the celebrity deceased slight feeling that there are scenes missing and tells them here - in that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a cracking little book graphic novel that will be ideal could easily have been three times as a stocking filler or small gift for those who enjoy slightly gruesome taleslong and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715648489</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786331047|title=The Last EscaperRace to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Peter TunstallHelen Rappaport|rating=4.5
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|summary=''The Last Escaper'' opens differently to many basic facts about the deaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, some of the great escape biographies that which were released soon after deliberately obscured at the war as it is told some 70 years latertime for various reasons, have long since been established. Peter Tunstall was an RAF pilot who was shot down For the last few months of their lives in Russia the former Tsar and spent many years as a Prisoner Of War across occupied EuropeTsarina, including their children and few remaining servants were held in Colditzincreasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. He lived through the warTo prevent them from being rescued, but also lived through many decades of peace. Will these years of in July 1918 the relative quiet life lesson the tales of bravery revolutionary regime had them all shot and dare doing of bayoneted to death in circumstances which, once the war? Of course not!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071564923X</amazonuk>news was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europe.
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