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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bruce Hugman1785633457|title= Out Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of BoundsEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 45|genre= AutobiographyTravel|summary= Author Bruce Hugman Clive Wilkinson has been a school teacher, probation officer, smallholder, university lecturer, PR Professional, is an international communications consultant and teacher in healthcare and patient safetyhistory of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. Having nursed two partners through As he neared his eightieth birthday the final stages idea of AIDS, and survived exploring the 2004 Asian Tsunamiedges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. A varied and interesting life then – In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it is the first thirty years of it that Hugman chooses to concentrate on here. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1508423709</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher DellB09BLBP3P8|title=MythologyNeville Chamberlain's War: An Illustrated Journey Into Our Imagined WorldsHow Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager

|genre=Spirituality and ReligionHistory|summary=What does a rainbow mean Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to you? How would you explain misconceptions about history. One such is the creation of scrubbing from the world if you had no science as such, or the changing popular imagination of the seasons? What other kinds early days of natures – chaotic trickeryWorld War II from 1939-40, evil personae or even known as the characteristics of goats – people your world? And why is it that the answers man ''Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, and woman have collectively formed Churchill coming in to such questions have been so similar across save the oceans day. Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and across the centuries? This highly pictorial volume looks at the mythologies that formed those answersyet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, and locks on to a multitude it was of subjects – blood, music, godly activity – to show us what has followedvital significance in how the war played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500291519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Moorehead3756228711|title=Village of SecretsCDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating=3.54

|summary=''Village The history of the development of IT could fill books of Secretsseveral hundred pages.''  Author Hans Bodmer is an account of resistance (with a small 'r') and rescue in a series of small villages scattered across quite right about that. He has chosen to tell us about the Vivarais-Lignon plateau in Vichy France. Residents of these villages harboured a number of peopleshort, many of them childrenbut explosive, many history of them Jews, seeking to avoid deportation to concentration campsthe Control Data Company, at great personal risk. There have been other accounts of this chapter in French history andCDC, of course, a great many books about Vichy France in generalfor whom he worked. However, It''Village of Secrets'' iss a fascinating tale, perhaps, the most detailed, much told in a mixture of it based on primary sources (interviews with both rescuers technological summary and the rescued, or their families), backed up by extensive documentary researchwry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955464X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter Finn Jeremy Dronfield and Petra CouveeDavid Ziggy Greene|title=The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book|rating=5|genre=Biography|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 a la Danny Boyle's Olympics ceremonies, and at the same time have the cultural heft of Larkin, Rushdie, Graham Greene Fritz and more combined. Someone connected 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 for the country to nix every plan to get it published.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581345</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ingrid von Oelhafen and Tim Tate|title=Hitler's Forgotten Children: My Life Inside the LebensbornKurt

|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=You see that name that credits We start with the author pair of this book? Forget itbrothers Fritz and Kurt, it's not accurate. (I don't mean Tim Tate's workmanlikeand their muckers, journalistic ghost writing, more of which later.) The narrator of this book did change her name by deed poll doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to something like Ingrid von Oelhafen some time agodo – kicking things around the empty market place, but not exactly how she wanted. She grew up as Ingrid von Oelhafen, although that was helping the name of her fatherneighbours, who was so desperately absent, in being over dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a generation older than his wife, with whom he was separatedvocational school. She might well have had her motherKurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours's maiden name if her parents had divorced each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and indeed her mother did move on workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to have a second family, and was terribly distant herself – young Ingrid would plead and plead for her company while in a remote childrenHitler's homewill, and instead of having a lot of family secrets were not passed down at opportune timesnational vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. Oh, and legally, due to what little documentation was to be seen''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, such as immunisation record cards, Ingrid was not Ingrid at did all, but Erika Matkothe round-ups of Jews. Through this book, we find she was not blood-kin These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with her brother, her step-brother was his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to dieBritain or the US, she was not blood-kin with her sisterwhile Fritz and his father are, but was her brother's, – ohunknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and even in this day and age you can still find a changeling foundlingthe stone quarry there. Such incredibly convoluted family trees are And us wondering how the titular event for the fault adult variant of the Lebensborn.all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783961201</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Francis O'GormanJohn Henry Phillips|title= Worrying: A Literary and Cultural HistoryThe Search|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= ‘’Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History’’ begins with Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a familiar scene for anyone who experiences that persistent feeling case of fretful panic: lying awake in the early hourslatter, unable as our author promises to switch offlocate the topic of the titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, thoughts turning over in your headthe target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. If this common situation hits homeLatching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, ‘This book’our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, its author Francis O’Gorman writesand that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, ‘is for youthe vast majority of whom perished.’Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144115129X</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LoadesB09F4CTKJR|title=The Seymours of Wolf Hall: A Tudor Family StoryFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary= In medieval times Wolf Hall or Wolfhall (or even Wulfhall), It's the long-since-demolished family seat in Wiltshire, was later stages of World War I and the home of United States has just entered the Seymour familyconflict. Their greatest triumph, followed by Petrol Petronus is a speedy decline young American who has signed up and fall, joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was part of Tudor historythe first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF and is thus the focus of this bookfirst to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445634953</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip Parker0578761718|title= The Northmen’s Fury: A History of the Viking World|rating= 4|genre= Inspiring 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>}}{{newreviewSpecial Relationship|author=Simon Wilcox|title=Mudlark River: Down the Thames with a Victorian Map Nancy Carver

|genre=TravelHistory|summary=Do you think finding The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a 19th century map would inspire you to walk design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn't the entire length end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the Thames? Because thatstones from the church's what Simon Wilcox didwalls were transported to Fulton, Missouri. I think there's something impossibly romantic about thatThere, in the grounds of Westminster College, don't you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993016308</amazonuk>the church was rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Williams1784385166|title=The Trains Now DepartedThird Reich in 100 Objects: Sixteen Excursions into the Lost Delights A Material History of Britain's RailwaysNazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating=3.5

|summary=Beaching wasn't What is the only buffer to the fate of various train lines of our land – it could have been sheer managerial incompetence, the birth of the package air holiday, or even road-builders' bloody-minded spite first image that served comes to bring down the end of the line. Yes, the fact mind when you can easily pepper your words with idiom from the world think of trains shows how important they have been over the last two hundred years, and this book is geared around that as well, if happily cliché-free. Our author takes us on Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a journey around various sites where train lines and elements concentration camp? None of what once rode proudly upon them have been and gone. So grab a platform ticket (RIP) and see what class these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of journey wethe Third Reich're travelling s fascist regime in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848094353</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John George Freeman and Ronnie Scott (editor)|title=Three Men and a Bradshaw|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=This book is quite the very time machine, and because of that some of all its own history is needed in summaryiniquity. A year or two ago, our presenter Shaun Sewell was buying But some private documents objects and images from the descendants of John George Freeman, that time may be less familiar to complete a set of illustrated travel journals he'd met with when risking a punt on the first few at auctionyou. He was intent on getting them published since finding themIn this short volume, and seemed Roger Moorhouse has attempted to be the first person with that desire since they were first written in illustrate the 1870s. Back then they were well-written, educative and entertaining looks at the early days period of the travel industry, when for example piers were novel(ty) ways for the rail companies to justify sending people to the ends Third Reich through one hundred of the country where previously there had been little for them to do. Here then is railwayana, travel and social history, all between two covers. So even if this doesn't find the perfectly huge audience of some books, it will certainly raise interest in many householdsits material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947441</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Steven Nightingale|title= Granada: The Light of Andalucia|rating=4 |genre= History |summary= Don't expect (as I did) a ''Parrot-in-the-Pepper-Tree'' type collection of comedic mishaps and tales about the joys -- and perils -- of joining a new community. This isLun Zhang, more than anythingAdrien Gombeaud, a history book, albeit one in which the writer's deep love of his adopted home Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (Granada and, more specifically, the Albayzín, the district he lives intranslator), his family and his neighbours makes every sentence sparkle. Even better, it's a history book that assumes no knowledge on the part of the reader. Steven Nightingale covers centuries of events in Spain, describing them with clarity and in a typically engaging style. He starts with the Moorish occupation of Spain in 711 and ends post-Civil War. Despite its vast chronological span, the book is more than a dry recounting of events and dates. Yes, that information is there, as befits any good history book. But Steven Nightingale's focus is more on the effects of these historical events, and the achievements of the times, particularly the ongoing legacy of the Moorish occupation. He writes in detail about Arabic poetry, the timeless nature of love, developments in maths, science and the arts, geometry in tiling, and much more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886313</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paul O'Keeffe|title=WaterlooTiananmen 1989: The AftermathOur Shattered Hopes

|genre=HistoryGraphic Novels|summary=There have been several accounts 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 battle weeks of Waterloo protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the events that led up to itTank 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. But it This book is always interesting to discover practically flawless in giving a book which finds a different way general browser's context for the whole season of telling the tale, or protests back in this case focusing more on what happened directly afterwards1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099563797</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Buk-Swienty0648684806|title=1864Clara Colby: The forgotten war that shaped modern EuropeInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday

|genre=HistoryBiography|summary=The brief path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but bloody clash because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of arms between Denmark school. She was the only child in the household and Prussia which took place her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in 1864 has never been regarded as one the mid-west of the major 19th century European warsUnited States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and I cannot recall having ever seen a single volume devoted her grandparents eventually went to it so farjoin the family. In this bookClara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, which forms seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the basis of a new TV drama serieseldest girl, Tom Buk-Swienty has done us a service in reminding us that it had heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a far greater political impact than we may have appreciatedrude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252769</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Treglown1783784350|title=FrancoThis Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=3.5

|summary=With It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she''Franco’s Crypt'' Jeremy Treglown has taken a highly charged subject – life in Spain under Franco – d never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and placed it under what to some might appear a somewhat revisionist microscopeeven her knitting did not soothe her mind. His aim appears January was going to be twofold: to consider a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the nature length and breadth of collective memorythe British Isles with occasional forays abroad, particularly in discovering and telling the light story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the exhumations of mass graves that commenced earlier this centurylandscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the farm'' - and learned to spin, knit and, secondly, to examine – weave from her mother and celebrate - Spain’s cultural output during Franco’s years as dictatorher mother's friend. This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701157</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Derek Niemann1789017977|title=A Nazi in the Family: The Hidden Story of an SS Family in Wartime Germany|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=I'm sure someone somewhere has rewritten The DevilRonnie and Hilda's Dictionary to include the following – ''familyRomance: noun; place where the greatest secrets are kept''. The Niemann family is no exception. It was long known that grandfather Karl was in Germany during the Second Towards a New Life after World War, 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 to the Glasgow environs, and there was even a family quip concerning Goebbels and Gorbals (''family: noun; place where the worst things are spoken in the best way''). What was a surprise to our author, and many of his relatives, was that things were a lot closer to 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 in unlikely ways, the whole truth can be known. But this is certainly not just of interest to that one small family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722222</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewII|author=Jessie Childs|title=God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan EnglandWendy Williams|rating=4.5

|summary=It goes almost without saying that sixteenth-century England, at Ronnie Williams was the height son of religious persecutionThomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a pretty perilous few years off his age. Queen Mary For a while the family was notorious for quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the number of Protestants who were burnt at the stake for their beliefs during her 1929 Depression and five-year reign-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. A belief widely held by many (depending on your religion, as likely as not) One thing he did inherit from his father was that during the fortyhis need to be well-turned-five years that ‘Good Queen Bess’ reigned, greater toleration held swayout and this would stay with him throughout his life. This has recently been disproved beyond doubt by several historians, and this book likewise helps to underline He joined the savagery towards Catholics that was endemic under her rulearmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700053</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Greene1980891117|title=Midnight in SiberiaG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A Train Journey into year in the Heart life of RussiaGeorge Engleheart|author=John Webley

|genre=Politics and SocietyArt|summary=It's no mistake that George Engleheart was one of the cover leading portrait miniaturists of my edition of this book is Georgian London, with a photo where career lasting from the Trans-Siberian Railway is horizontal in 1770s to the frameRegency era. It's well known for going east-west, left to right across the map He was also one of the largest country by far in the world. 9most prolific,288 kilometres from Moscow to the eastern stretches of Russiapainting nearly 5, it could only be a long, thin line across the cover, as it is in our imagination 000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of it as a form them being of transport and a travel destination in its own rightKing George III). So when this book mentions it as the spine or backbone of Russia a couple Throughout most of times, that's got to be time he carefully recorded the names of a prone Russia – one lying down, not upright or active. David Greene, a stalwart each of northern American radio journalismhis clients, uses this book to see just how active or otherwise Russia and Russians are – and finds their lying down subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to be quite a definite verdict, as well as a slight indictmenthis fee book. It's no mistake either for this cover to have people in the frame alongside the train carriages, for the people met both riding and living alongside the tracks of the Railway are definitely the ribs of the piece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Bates1789016304|title=1815War and Love: Regency Britain A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in the Year of Waterloooccupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=4.5

|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 idea Diary of taking a pivotal year Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the past and devoting a whole book to city during the themewar years, embracing political, social but only five thousand survived and military history, is Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a very interesting onecountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Stephen Bates did so successfully not long ago with ‘Two NationsMost people believed that the occupation could never happen: Britain even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in 1846’the way that it did, and here he does but initial protests melted away as the same again, taking organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a step three decades backvast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858217</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lena Mukhina and Amanda Love Darragh (translator)1908745819|title=The Diary of Lena Mukhina: 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 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>}}{{newreviewSurfacing|author=Jerry White|title=Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World WarKathleen Jamie

|summary=It seems Sometimes when people suggest that only recentlyyou read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, with but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the centenary book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the outbreak author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the First World War upon usnatural world, of those aspects of the poetic and lyrical that historians have really looked thoroughly at the social history aspect are about style not form, and the effect it substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on the population at homeit. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. Jerry White, who has already made a study of London over the last three centuries or I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so in previous titles, now turns his attention to life in the capital during those momentous four yearsquickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556049</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Esterly0857058320|title=The Lost Carving: A Journey to Lord Of All the Heart of MakingDead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|genre=AutobiographyHistory|summary=Bouncing between his studio in upstate New York and ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the sites of various English sojourns, woodcarver David Esterlyauthor's seems to be an idyllic existence. Yet itlost ancestor's not all cosy cottages in the snow and watching geese life and coyotes when he looks up from his workbenchdeath. There Cercas is an element of hard-won retreat from searching for the trials of life meaning behind his great uncle's death in this memoirthe Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, but at the same time there is an argument for the essential difficulty of figure who looms large over the artistbook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's lifeforces. 'Carvers are starvers,' a wizened English carver once told himCercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. Certainly there The question at the centre of this book is whether it is no possible for his great fortune uncle to be won from a profession as obscure as limewood carving, but the rewards outweigh hero whilst having fought for the hard graft for Esterlywrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649191</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Tennant, Hilary Bailey and David Elliott0008294011|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 in the idea of being whining old curmudgeons who miss the good old days of publishing. This unashamed nostalgia provides the focus of the book and allows the writers How to recount numerous anecdotes Lose a Country: The 7 Steps 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 Democracy 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>}}{{newreviewDictatorship|author=John Van der Kiste|title=The Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm IIEce Temelkuran

|genre=BiographyHistory|summary=Kaiser Wilhelm II is well known and not for A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the best of reasons and hequestion ''s certainly over-shadowed his six younger siblingsDiscuss the factors which led to... '' John Van der KisteI agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this's first biography was of his father, Kaiser Friedrich III and he has also written about Emperor Wilhelm II so he is well placed leading to write about the three youngest children Kaiser Friedrich and Victoria, Princess Royal. Originally he intended to write about Friedrich's second daughter, but it quickly became obvious I think now that the most satisfying biography - for reader and author - would be a biography I do know. We are in danger of Victoria, Sophie losing democracy and Margaret, their motherwhilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the 'kleebattbenevolent dictator'is as rare as hen' or trio, as they were knowns teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00QKROC9W</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Weight1788037812|title=MODThe Fraternity of the Estranged: From Bebop to BritpopThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, Britain's Biggest Youth Movement1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|summary=''Mod'' is arguably Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a rathercrime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-overused termsex relationships did not go unchallenged. First of allBetween 1891 and 1908, there is three books on the matter nature of establishing a precise definitionhomosexuality appeared. ''Modernism''They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, which was soon abbreviated for convenience, began as well as the working-class movement of a newly affluent nationheterosexual Havelock Ellis. Once Exploring the age margins of immediate post-war austerity society and studying homosexuality was gonecommon on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the cult publications of a youth keen these men were hugely significant – contributing to shake off the drab conformity scientific understanding of life in 1950s Britain took hold. It was more than anything else an amalgam of American music homosexuality, and European fashions, beginning as a popular cult the struggle for recognition and gradually becoming a mainstream cultureequality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099597888</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)1910593508|title=Massacre in Norway: The 2011 Terror Attack on Oslo Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and the Utoya Youth CampMike Collins|rating=2.5

|summary=Anders Behring Breivik was 32 when he both planted This incredible graphic novel is a van bomb in Oslo's central government district love letter to hit out at what he thought was 'Cultural Marxism', which killed 8, then left the Moon landings and the passion for an island in a lake 24 miles awaythe subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, where Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a notably political youth gathering was enjoying itself. He gunned down 69 people – more than one in ten of those at the camp – story we know well and wounded many scores more. He also spammed countless people with another because of his projectsthis, the authors take a lengthy manifesto declaring his ideas about Islamisation and what he saw as a pernicious multiculturalism ruining his countryfew narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. His case was one of These shortcuts are the more superlative events in modern Nordic history – as was only downside to the surprisingly lenient sentence for over 70 lives book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of just 21 yearsa film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is, a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as you'd expect, one of the many books to result from the caselong and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612346685</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Jones1786331047|title=Magna CartaThe Race to Save the Romanovs: The Making and Legacy of Truth Behind the Great CharterSecret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport

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