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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Dell1785633457|title=MythologyCharging Around: An Illustrated Journey Into Our Imagined Worlds|rating=4.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=What does a rainbow mean to you? How would you explain the creation of the world if you had no science as such, or the changing of the seasons? What other kinds of natures – chaotic trickery, evil personae or even the characteristics of goats – people your world? And why is it that the answers man and woman have collectively formed to such questions have been so similar across the oceans and across the centuries? This highly pictorial volume looks at the mythologies that formed those answers, and locks on to a multitude of subjects – blood, music, godly activity – to show us what has followed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500291519</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Caroline Moorehead|title=Village of Secrets|rating=3.5|genre=History|summary=''Village of Secrets'' is an account of resistance (with a small 'r') and rescue in a series of small villages scattered across the Vivarais-Lignon plateau in Vichy France. Residents of these villages harboured a number of people, many of them children, many of them Jews, seeking to avoid deportation to concentration camps, at great personal risk. There have been other accounts of this chapter in French history and, of course, a great many books about Vichy France in general. However, ''Village of Secrets'' is, perhaps, Exploring the most detailed, much Edges of it based on primary sources (interviews with both rescuers and the rescued, or their families), backed up England by extensive documentary research.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955464X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewElectric Car|author=Peter Finn and Petra Couvee|title=The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden BookClive 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 the Lebensborn|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=You see that name that credits As he neared his eightieth birthday the author idea of this book? Forget it, it's not accurate. (I don't mean Tim Tate's workmanlike, journalistic ghost writing, more 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 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 pleasant holiday 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>}}{{newreview|author= Philip Parker|title= The Northmen’s Fury: A History of the Viking World|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= In AD793, 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>shouldn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon WilcoxB09BLBP3P8|title=Mudlark RiverNeville Chamberlain's War: Down the Thames with a Victorian Map How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=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?G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating=34.5|genre=EntertainmentArt|summary=Essentially, the three authors (all George Engleheart was one of whom have long careers in the book industry) revel in the idea leading portrait miniaturists of being whining old curmudgeons who miss the good old days of publishing. This unashamed nostalgia provides the focus of the book and allows Georgian London, with a career lasting from the writers 1770s to recount numerous anecdotes from their days in the publishing businessRegency era. Whilst He was also one of the primary audience for this book may well be students of creative writing and media studiesmost prolific, painting nearly 5, it also serves as an interesting exploration 000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of an aspect them being of modern history: how a once-burgeoning industry is now a shell of its former self, much like a lot of manufacturingKing George III). Because Throughout most of this, I was disappointed that no space was given to a consideration of how time he carefully recorded the rise names of the e-book and Kindle has directly damaged both the sale each of books his clients, and the potential for new books subsequently transcribed them into what is referred 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 adultshis fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704372983</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Van der Kiste1789016304|title=The Prussian PrincessesWar and Love: The Sisters A family's testament of Kaiser Wilhelm IIanguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyHistory|summary=Kaiser Wilhelm Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II is well known and not for the best was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary of reasons and heAnn Frank'' but then realised that her own family's certainly over-shadowed his six younger siblingsstories were equally fascinating. John Van der Kiste's first biography was of his fatherA hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, Kaiser Friedrich III but only five thousand survived and he has also written about Emperor Wilhelm II so he is well placed Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to write about the three youngest children Kaiser Friedrich and Victoria, Princess RoyalGerman occupation. Originally he intended to write about Friedrich's second daughter, but it quickly became obvious Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the most satisfying biography - for reader and author - Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be a biography of Victoriapushed back, Sophie and Margaretthat the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it did, their motherbut initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's ''kleebatt'' or trio, as they were knownan atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00QKROC9W</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Weight1908745819|title=MOD: From Bebop to Britpop, Britain's Biggest Youth MovementSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie

|summary=Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''Mod. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the book. That' is arguably s a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a rather-overused termbook calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. First The blurb speaks of allthe author considering ''an older, there is the matter less tethered sense of establishing a precise definitionherself. ''Modernism Older. Less tethered. That'', which was soon abbreviated for convenience, began as the working-class movement s not a bad description of a newly affluent nationwhere I am. Once Add to that my love of the age natural world, of immediate post-war austerity was gone, the cult those aspects of a youth keen to shake off the drab conformity poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of life in 1950s Britain took holdall, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. It was more than anything else an amalgam of American music written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0857058320|title=Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and European fashions, beginning as Anne McLean (translator)|rating=4|genre=History|summary=''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a popular cult journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and gradually becoming death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a mainstream culturehero whilst having fought for the wrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099597888</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)0008294011|title=Massacre in NorwayHow to Lose a Country: The 2011 Terror Attack on Oslo and the Utoya Youth Camp7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating=24.5

|summary=Anders Behring Breivik was 32 when he both planted A little while ago a van bomb friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in Osloyears to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question 's central government district 'Discuss the factors which led to hit out at ...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what he thought was all 'Cultural Marxismthis', which killed 8, then left for an island in a lake 24 miles away, where a notably political youth gathering was enjoying itselfleading to. I think now that I do know. He gunned down 69 people – more than one We are in ten danger of those at the camp – losing democracy and wounded many scores more. He also spammed countless people with another whilst it's a flawed system I can't think 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 better one of the more superlative events in modern Nordic history – , particularly as was the surprisingly lenient sentence for over 70 lives of just 21 years. This 'benevolent dictator' is, as yourare as hen'd expect, one of the many books to result from the cases teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612346685</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Jones1788037812|title=Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy Fraternity of the Great CharterEstranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|summary=For what do we – and by courtesy of a lengthy timeline Originally passed in history1885, would the Americans likewise – most likely owe thanks to law that had made homosexual relations a spigurnel? What is 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 most revered legal document in historynature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, which sets out as well as the rights heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of man – society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but also has time to talk barely talked about widows' rightsin the UK, fish traps, and to be both sexist and to discuss so the importance to people's estates publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to debts owed Jewish moneylenders? What will probably be the only notable historical experience scientific understanding of Britain in 1215homosexuality, when we finally get diverted from thinking about WWI and discuss beginning the 800 years of something elsestruggle for recognition and equality, even though leading to the authority milestone legalisation of no less than the Pope declared it null and void within ten weeks of its being finished?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858853</amazonuk>same-sex relationships in 1967.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Iain Gately1910593508|title=Rush HourApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=45

|summary=Rush Hour. 500 Million commuters go through it This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every dayApollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and it's hard because of this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to avoid - whether like me the book. If you're ve ever read a jaded Londoner stuck in someone's armpit whilst attempting to read on comic book adaptation of a cramped tube, or trying to navigate busy country lanes in order to do film you will be familiar with the school run slight feeling that there are scenes missing and get to work on time, we've probably all experienced itthat dialogue has been trimmed. But This is a graphic novel that could easily have you ever thought about the history of it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781854068</amazonuk>been three times as long and still felt too short.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Evans1786331047|title=Merchant AdventurersThe Race to Save the Romanovs: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=4.5

|summary=We tend to associate The basic facts about the golden age deaths of global navigation Nicholas and exploration with Alexandra, some of which were deliberately obscured at the Elizabethan age time for various reasons, have long since been established. For the last few months of their lives in Russia the former Tsar and such luminaries as DrakeTsarina, Raleigh their children and Hawkinsfew remaining servants were held in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. This book does us To prevent them from being rescued, in July 1918 the revolutionary regime had them all a service shot and bayoneted to death in reminding us of circumstances which, once the original pioneersnews was confirmed beyond all doubt, whom they overshadowed and who seem less well-remembered these dayshorrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780221029</amazonuk>