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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Finn and Petra Couvee1785633457|title=The Zhivago AffairCharging Around: The Kremlin, Exploring the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden BookEdges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson

|genre=BiographyTravel|summary=One of the many things to come out of this incredibly clear and readable book is that we Brits, for all our literary heritage, have got nothing like an equivalent to Boris Pasternak. He or she would have to sell like Rowling, regularly capture the enjoyment and spirit of the nation Clive Wilkinson has a la Danny Boyle's Olympics ceremonies, and at the same time have the cultural heft history of Larkin, Rushdie, Graham Greene and more combined. Someone connected travelling by unconventional means with choosing recipients of the Nobel Prize declare him here to be the Soviet TS Eliot, but that's nothing like. So the reader probably has to stretch herself to see someone so well-respected and well-loved for his verse, who spent twelve years and more on a huge, society-defining novel, only preference for the country to nix every plan to get it publishedslow travel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581345</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ingrid von Oelhafen and Tim Tate|title=Hitler's Forgotten Children: My Life Inside As he neared his eightieth birthday the Lebensborn|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=You see that name that credits the author of this book? Forget it, it's not accurate. (I don't mean Tim Tate's workmanlike, journalistic ghost writing, more idea of which later.) The narrator of this book did change her name by deed poll to something like Ingrid von Oelhafen some time ago, but not exactly how she wanted. She grew up as Ingrid von Oelhafen, although that was exploring the name edges of her father, who was so desperately absent, England in being over a generation older than his wife, with whom he was separated. She might well have had her mother's maiden name if her parents had divorced – and indeed her mother did move on to have a second family, and an electric car was terribly distant herself – young Ingrid would plead and plead for her company while in a remote children's home, and a lot of family secrets were not passed down at opportune timestotally outrageous. OhIn fact, and legally, due to what little documentation was to it should be seen, such as immunisation record cards, Ingrid was not Ingrid at all, but Erika Matko. Through this book, we find she was not blood-kin with her brother, her step-brother was to die, she was not blood-kin with her sister, but was her brother's, – oh, and even in this day and age you can still find a changeling foundling. Such incredibly convoluted family trees are the fault of the Lebensborn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783961201</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Francis O'Gorman|title= Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= ‘’Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History’’ begins with a familiar scene pleasant holiday for anyone who experiences that persistent feeling of fretful panic: lying awake in the early hours, unable to switch off, thoughts turning over in your head. If this common situation hits home, ‘This book’, its author Francis O’Gorman writes, ‘is for you.’|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144115129X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Loades|title=The Seymours of Wolf Hall: A Tudor Family Story|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= In medieval times Wolf Hall or Wolfhall (or even Wulfhall), the long-since-demolished family seat in Wiltshire, was the home of the Seymour family. Their greatest triumph, followed by a speedy decline Clive and fallhis wife, was part of Tudor historyJoan, and is thus the focus of this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445634953</amazonuk>shouldn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip ParkerB09BLBP3P8|title= The Northmen’s FuryNeville Chamberlain's War: A History of the Viking World|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= In AD793How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, the Vikings arrived on our shores. Bringing death and destruction, they sacked the island monastery of Lindisfarne. Bloodthirsty warriors, they soon descended on northern Europe. However, for all their reputation as terrible and brutal thugs, the Vikings possessed a culture that was far more sophisticated than they are often given credit for, producing art, literature and long lasting kingdoms. Philip Parker describes how these people came to rule over much of Europe for nearly three centuries, in this fascinating and intriguing read. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551845</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1939-1940|author=Simon Wilcox|title=Mudlark River: Down the Thames with a Victorian Map Frederic Seager

|summary=Beaching wasn't Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the only buffer to scrubbing from the fate popular imagination of various train lines the early days of our land – it could have been sheer managerial incompetenceWorld War II from 1939-40, known as the birth of the package air holiday''Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, or even road-builders' bloody-minded spite that served and Churchill coming in to bring down save the end of the lineday. YesVery little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, the fact you can easily pepper your words with idiom from the world of trains shows how important they have been over the last two hundred years, and as Frederic Seager argues in this book is geared around that as well, if happily cliché-free. Our author takes us on a journey around various sites where train lines and elements of what once rode proudly upon them have been and gone. So grab a platform ticket (RIP) and see what class it was of journey we're travelling vital significance inhow the war played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848094353</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John George Freeman and Ronnie Scott (editor)3756228711|title=Three Men and CDC: The happy years with a Bradshawspectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer

|summary=There have been several accounts ''The history of the battle development of Waterloo and IT could fill books of the events several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that led up to it. But it is always interesting He has chosen to discover a book which finds a different way tell us about the short, but explosive, history of telling the Control Data Company, CDC, for whom he worked. It's a fascinating tale, or told in this case focusing more on what happened directly afterwardsa mixture of technological summary and wry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563797</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Buk-SwientyJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=1864: The forgotten war that shaped modern EuropeFritz and Kurt

|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=The brief but bloody clash We start with the pair of arms between Denmark brothers Fritz and Kurt, and Prussia which took their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place in 1864 , helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has never been regarded to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as one of mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the major 19th century European warsAustrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and I cannot recall instead of having ever seen a single volume devoted national vote to it so farkeep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. In this book''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, which forms as did all the basis round-ups of a new TV drama seriesJews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, Tom Buk-Swienty has done packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us a service in reminding us that it had a far greater political impact than we may have appreciated.wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781252769</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy TreglownJohn Henry Phillips|title=Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936The Search|rating=3.5

|summary=With Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you'Franco’s Crypt'' Jeremy Treglown has taken a highly charged subject – life re scraping in Spain under Franco – and placed it under 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 fair bit harder when you set out to find some might appear specific thing. This book is a somewhat revisionist microscope. His aim appears to be twofold: case of the latter, as our author promises to consider locate the nature topic of collective memorythe titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, particularly in the light of the exhumations of mass graves that commenced earlier this centurytarget might not exist any more – oh, andit's underwater, secondlywhen 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 delivered him to examine – Normandy, and celebrate - Spain’s cultural output during Franco’s years as dictatorthat he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perished.Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784701157</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Derek NiemannB09F4CTKJR|title=A Nazi in the Family: The Hidden Story of an SS Family in Wartime GermanyFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyHistorical Fiction|summary=I'm sure someone somewhere has rewritten The DevilIt's Dictionary to include the following – ''family: noun; place where later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the greatest secrets are kept''conflict. The Niemann family Petrol Petronus is no exceptiona young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. It was long known that grandfather Karl This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Germany during the Second World WarCanada, people could easily work that out from the family biography. Yet little was spoken of, apart from him being an office-bound worker, either in logistics or finance. Since the War two of three surviving siblings had relocated first to be attached to the Glasgow environs, RAF and there was even a family quip concerning Goebbels and Gorbals (''family: noun; place where the worst things are spoken in first to be sent into the best way''). What was a surprise to our author, and many of his relatives, was that things were a lot closer skies to fight the former than had been expected, for Karl was such an office worker – for the SS. With a lot of family history finally out of the closet of silent mouths, and with incriminating photographic evidence revealed Germans in unlikely ways, the whole truth can be knownactive combat. But this is certainly not just of interest before that can happen, Petrol has to that one small familymaster flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722222</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jessie Childs0578761718|title=God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan EnglandThe Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver

|summary=It goes almost without saying that sixteenth-century England, at The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the height City of religious persecutionLondon from at least 1181, when it was a pretty perilous agefirst mentioned in records. Sadly, Queen Mary the original church was notorious for destroyed in the number Great Fire of Protestants who were burnt at London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the stake fire and then survived for their beliefs during her five-year reign. A belief widely held by many (depending on your religioncenturies until World War II, as likely as not) when it was that again ruined by bombs during the forty-five years Blitz. But that ‘Good Queen Bess’ reignedwasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported to Fulton, greater toleration held swayMissouri. This has recently been disproved beyond doubt by several historiansThere, in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and this book likewise helps today serves as a memorial to underline the savagery towards Catholics that was endemic under her ruleWinston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700053</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Greene1784385166|title=Midnight The Third Reich in Siberia100 Objects: A Train Journey into the Heart Material History of RussiaNazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyHistory|summary=It's no mistake that the cover of my edition of this book What is a photo where the Trans-Siberian Railway is horizontal in the frame. It's well known for going east-west, left first image that comes to right across the map mind when you think of the largest country by far in the world. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to the eastern stretches of Russia, it could only be a long, thin line across the cover, as it is in our imagination concentration camp? None of it as a form these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of transport and a travel destination the Third Reich's fascist regime in all its own rightiniquity. So when this book mentions it as the spine or backbone of Russia a couple of times, But some objects and images from that's got time may be less familiar to be of a prone Russia – one lying down, not upright or activeyou. David Greene, a stalwart of northern American radio journalism, uses In this book to see just how active or otherwise Russia and Russians are – and finds their lying down to be quite a definite verdictshort volume, as well as a slight indictment. It's no mistake either for this cover Roger Moorhouse has attempted to have people in the frame alongside the train carriages, for the people met both riding and living alongside illustrate the tracks period of the Railway are definitely the ribs Third Reich through one hundred of the pieceits material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen BatesLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=1815Tiananmen 1989: Regency Britain in the Year of WaterlooOur Shattered Hopes

|genre=HistoryGraphic Novels|summary=The idea I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of taking a pivotal year their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the past students before the massacre and devoting a whole book to the themebirth of the Tank Man image, embracing I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for politicalprotest, social and military history, is I didn't know more than a very interesting onespit about the people involved on either side. Stephen Bates did so successfully not long ago with ‘Two Nations: Britain This book is practically flawless in 1846’, and here he does giving a general browser's context for the same again, taking a step three decades whole season of protests backin 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781858217</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lena Mukhina and Amanda Love Darragh (translator)0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of LeningradInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday

|genre=AutobiographyBiography|summary=If The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life as a girl was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of school-leaving age is hard enoughsome childhood ailment, think about it when youshe wasn're stuck in a great city under a horrendous sieget allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Lena Mukhina's diary only covers half the 800-odd days the nightmare in Leningrad lastedInstead, she remained with her grandparents, but so palpably singular were the circumstances who doted on her and saw that it feels like one is given the clearest insight into what it was likeshe received a good education, courtesy both in and out of these pagesschool. I've been there and never felt She was the ghost of the siege only child in the modern St Petersburg, anything like (for example) the ruination of Warsaw had lived on. But a dreadful time this household and her childhood wasglorious. At By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the peak times mid-west of Nazi oppression the United States and aerial bombinglife was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the city lost 2 or 3 residents' lives ''every minute'' of the day on averagefamily. The city Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was desperate married for fuelfifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and food – and this is a place where it can – and does here – snow died in Junechildbirth not long after Clara arrived. Without giving too much of As the diet awayeldest girl, it's notable that later a heavy burden would fall on Lena dreams of having Clara and Wisconsin was a menagerie of small animals to live with – but no dogs or catsrude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144726987X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jerry White1783784350|title=Zeppelin NightsThis Golden Fleece: London in the First World WarA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter

|summary=It seems was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her 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 only recently, with she would travel the centenary length and breadth of the outbreak of the First World War upon usBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, that historians have really looked thoroughly at discovering and telling the social story of wool's history aspect and the effect how it had on made and changed the population at homelandscape. Jerry White, who has already made She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a study of London over free-range child on the last three centuries or so in previous titlesfarm'' - and learned to spin, now turns his attention to life knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in the capital during those momentous four yearsher blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556049</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Esterly1789017977|title=The Lost CarvingRonnie and Hilda's Romance: A Journey to the Heart of MakingTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams

|genre=AutobiographyHistory|summary=Bouncing between his studio in upstate New York and Ronnie Williams was the sites son of various English sojourns, woodcarver David EsterlyThomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's seems some doubt as to be an idyllic existence. Yet itwhether or not they were ever married or even Harry's not all cosy cottages birthdate: he claimed to have been born in the snow 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and watching geese and coyotes when he looks up from might well have shaved a few years off his workbenchage. There is an element of hard For a while the family was quite well-to-won retreat from the trials of life do but disaster struck in this memoir, but at the same time there is an argument for the essential difficulty of the artist's life. 'Carvers are starvers,' 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a wizened English carver once told himvery different lifestyle. Certainly there is no great fortune One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be won from a profession as obscure as limewood carving, but well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the rewards outweigh the hard graft for Esterlyarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649191</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Tennant, Hilary Bailey and David Elliott1980891117|title=Did We Meet on Grub Street?|rating=3.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=Essentially, the three authors (all of whom have long careers in the book industry) revel G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the idea of being whining old curmudgeons who miss the good old days of publishing. This unashamed nostalgia provides the focus life of the book and allows the writers to recount numerous anecdotes from their days in the publishing business. Whilst the primary audience for this book may well be students of creative writing and media studies, it also serves as an interesting exploration of an aspect of modern history: how a once-burgeoning industry is now a shell of its former self, much like a lot of manufacturing. Because of this, I was disappointed that no space was given to a consideration of how the rise of the e-book and Kindle has directly damaged both the sale of books and the potential for new books to be written (fewer real books sold = fewer financial advances paid to writers = fewer books written). Also, given the clear love of books as treasured artifacts, the dismissal of the Harry Potter phenomenon seems truculent, given the impetus the series gave to reading amongst both the young and adults.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704372983</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGeorge Engleheart|author=John Van der Kiste|title=The Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm IIWebley

|genre=BiographyArt|summary=Kaiser Wilhelm II is well known and not for George Engleheart was one of the best leading portrait miniaturists of reasons and he's certainly over-shadowed his six younger siblingsGeorgian London, with a career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. John Van der Kiste's first biography He was also one of his fatherthe most prolific, painting nearly 5, Kaiser Friedrich 000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III 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 Royal). Originally Throughout most of that time he intended to write about Friedrich's second daughter, but it quickly became obvious that carefully recorded the most satisfying biography - for reader and author - would be a biography names of each of Victoriahis clients, Sophie and Margaret, their mother's ''kleebatt'' or trio, subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as they were knownhis fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00QKROC9W</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Weight1789016304|title=MODWar and Love: From Bebop to Britpop, BritainA family's Biggest Youth Movementtestament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin

|summary=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'Mod'but then realised that her own family' is arguably a rather-overused terms stories were equally fascinating. First of allA hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, there is the matter of establishing but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a precise definitioncountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. ''Modernism'', which was Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon abbreviated for conveniencebe pushed back, began as that the working-class movement of a newly affluent nation. Once Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the age of immediate post-war austerity was goneway that it did, but initial protests melted away as the cult of a youth keen to shake off the drab conformity of life in 1950s Britain took holdorganisers became more circumspect. It was more than anything else 's an amalgam atrocity on a vast scale but made up of American music and European fashions, beginning as a popular cult and gradually becoming a mainstream culturetens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099597888</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)1908745819|title=Massacre in Norway: 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 Oslo'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>}}{{newreviewSurfacing|author=Dan Jones|title=Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great CharterKathleen Jamie

|summary=For what Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we – and by courtesy of ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the book. That's a lengthy timeline in history, would the Americans likewise – most likely owe thanks rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a spigurnel? book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. What is The blurb speaks of the most revered legal document in historyauthor considering ''an older, which sets out the rights less tethered sense of man – but also has time to talk about widowsherself.'' rights, fish traps, and to be both sexist and to discuss the importance to people Older. Less tethered. That's estates not a bad description of where I am. Add to debts owed Jewish moneylenders? What will probably be that my love of the only notable historical experience natural world, of those aspects of Britain in 1215the poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, when we finally get diverted from thinking about WWI and discuss the 800 years substance most of something elseall, even though the authority of no less than the Pope declared about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it null and void within ten weeks of . It was written for me. It would have found its being finished?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858853</amazonuk>way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Iain Gately0857058320|title=Rush HourLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|summary=Rush Hour. 500 Million commuters go through it every day, and it''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's hard to avoid - whether like me youlost ancestor're a jaded Londoner stuck in someones life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's armpit whilst attempting to read on a cramped tube, or trying to navigate busy country lanes death in order to do the school run and get to work on timeSpanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, weis the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco've probably all experienced its forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. But have you ever thought about The question at the history centre of this book is whether it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781854068</amazonuk>is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Evans0008294011|title=Merchant AdventurersHow to Lose a Country: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran

|summary=We tend A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to associate come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the golden age of global navigation and exploration with question ''Discuss the Elizabethan age factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and such luminaries as Drake, Raleigh and Hawkinswasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. This book does us all We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a service in reminding us flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the original pioneers, whom they overshadowed and who seem less well-remembered these days'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780221029</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Emma MarriottBrian Anderson|rating=5|titlegenre=A History |summary=Originally passed in 1885, the 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 books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the World heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and 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 the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in Numbers1967.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1910593508|title=Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=45

|summary=Make no mistake, this book does what it says on This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the cover. That also goes to say that it is ''not'' A History of passion for the World ''of'' Numberssubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, or A History of the World's Numbers Chris Baker and what they might mean, as other books provideMike Collins. This is a primer story we know well and because of this, the world's history, right from authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the earliest days of civilisation up only downside to the close book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of World War Two, in handy bite-sized chunks, where a film you will be familiar with the headline data can be given using slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a numbergraphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432175</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786331047|title=Serving The Race to Save the ReichRomanovs: The Struggle for Truth Behind the Soul of Physics under HitlerSecret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Philip BallHelen Rappaport|rating=4.5

|summary=Picture yourself in Nazi GermanyThe basic facts about the deaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, some of which were deliberately obscured at any the time of the Reich's powers. What do you dofor various reasons, and how do you behave? Do you recognise the fact Jews are being oppressed and have long since been since established. For the first days last few months of their lives in Russia the Nazi regime? Do you do anything about this, or are you aware of the problems the country has had due to losing the Great War and having the whole Weimar Republic former Tsar and hyperinflationTsarina, their children and just look after number one? Now picture yourself as a scientist. All you've known your adult life has been to furthering your knowledge few remaining servants were held inincreasingly squalid, sayhumiliating captivity. To prevent them from being rescued, physics. Do you again work purely for your own ends? For in July 1918 the country's – knowing revolutionary regime had them all about its rulers? Or can you segregate your bosses shot and their leaders from your needsbayoneted to death in circumstances which, and perhaps seek knowledge for once the sake of the world? It's probably not a conundrum that has hit you beforenews was confirmed beyond all doubt, given its scientific bent, but it's worth looking at what was going on at that timehorrified their relatives in Europe. Which way did Planck walk? Did Heisenberg have principles?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581647</amazonuk>