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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jeffrey James1785633457|title= Edward IVCharging Around: Glorious Son Exploring the Edges of YorkEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryTravel|summary= Medieval England's own game of thrones, The Wars of the Roses, was at the centre Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a turbulent agepreference for slow travel. In retrospect much As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the history edges of medieval Englandin an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, between the Norman conquest and the advent of the Tudors, seems to have been it should be a chronicle of instability often verging on and sometimes erupting into rebellion or civil war. The fifteenth-century conflicts between the houses of Lancaster and York, lasting intermittently pleasant holiday for thirty years, were more protracted Clive and even more brutal than the resthis wife, with several fierce battles and sudden changes of fortune for the two rival familiesJoan, both descended from King Edward III. The rise, fall and rise again of King Edward IV was a constant theme of the wars.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445646218</amazonuk>shouldn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dan JonesB09BLBP3P8|title= Realm DividedNeville Chamberlain's War: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet EnglandHow Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= 1215 has gone down in Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history as . One such is the year of Magna Carta, scrubbing from the result popular imagination of King John's increasingly discontented barons attempts to exert control over their wayward and stubborn monarch. John had succeeded to the throne early days of England in 1199World War II from 1939-40, at known as the end of an often turbulent century''Phoney War''. His fatherWe remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, Henry IIwar breaking out, had succeeded and Churchill coming in restoring the authority of the crown after almost twenty years of civil war between the supporters of two rival claimants to save the kingdomday. He had inherited a challenging set Very little time is spent on both sides of the Channelthis period in cultural reflections and yet, and within four years had been driven out of most of the French onesas Frederic Seager argues in this book, notably the duchy it was of Normandy. Posterity would bestow on him vital significance in how the unflattering nicknames 'John Softsword' and later 'John Lackland'war played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858829</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith Jeffery3756228711|title=1916CDC: A Global HistoryThe happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=1916 was a pivotal year in modern ''The historyof the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages. It witnessed '' Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. He has chosen to tell us about the Easter Rising in Dublinshort, but explosive, the battles history of Verdun and the SommeControl Data Company, CDC, and the election of Woodrow Wilson as American Presidentfor whom he worked. TheseIt's a fascinating tale, and several other events described told in this book in detail, were later seen as crucial staging points in the course a mixture of the First World Wartechnological summary and wry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408834308</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gary CoxJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title= Deep Thought: 42 Fantastic Quotes that Define Philosophy Fritz and Kurt|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryConfident Readers|summary= Who really knows what ''Cogito ergo sum'' means? YesWe start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, you may know that Descartes said itand their muckers, and that it translates as 'I thinkdoing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, therefore I am'helping the neighbours, but what was being dutiful when it comes to the French philosopher was trying synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to say about human existence when he said make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this most quotable is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and definitive phrase? And, for that matterinstead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''whereKristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did he say it? Was it all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the seventeenth century younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the eighteenth? If these US, while Fritz and his father are , unknown initially to each other, packed off on the sort of question that keep you awake at night, then Gary Cox's ''Deep Thought: 42 Fantastic Quotes that Define Philosophy'' will be a welcome addition same train to your libraryBuchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472567269</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin FludeJohn Henry Phillips|title=Divorced, Beheaded, Died...: The History of Britain's Kings and Queens in Bite-Sized ChunksSearch|rating=4.5

|summary=History livesArchaeology 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. Proof of that sweeping statement can Archaeology must be had in this a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This bookis a case of the latter, and in as our author promises to locate the topic of the fact that while titular search. And he really hasn't made it only reached easy for himself – the grand old age of sixsearch area is a wide one, it has had the dust brushed off it and has been reprinted target might not exist any more – oh, and while the present royal incumbent it ends its main narrative with has not changed's underwater, other things havewhen he cannot dive. This Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has quietly been updated promised to include find the reburial of Richard III in Leicesterlanding craft that delivered him to Normandy, and seems that he was lucky to have been rereleased at a perfectly apposite time, as only the week before I write these words the Queen has surpassed all those who came before her as our longest serving rulersurvive when it sank from beneath him. Such details may be trivia The secondary aim is to some – especially those of us of erect a more royalist bent – and important facts memorial to others. The perfect balance everyone else aboard, the vast majority of that coupling – trivia and detail – is what makes this book so worthwhilewhom perished.Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782434631</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma MarriottB09F4CTKJR|title= I Used to Know That: HistoryFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyHistorical Fiction|summary= It's the later stages of World War I've picked and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up a few things over and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the yearsfirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, most notably from English language text books while TEFLing abroad (there's nothing like an exciting lesson on Guy Fawkes the first to be attached to the RAF and the first to have a classroom of Mexicans wondering why we so love be sent into the skies to celebrate a terrorist attack fight the Germans in active combat. But before that didn't can happen). But I have gaps, of this I am sure, and I thought Petrol has to get a basic understanding of, well, master flying the basics that we all should know, a quick read of this book wouldn't hurtnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434488</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bruce Hugman0578761718|title= Out The Inspiring History of Bounds|rating= 4|genre= Autobiography|summary= Author Bruce Hugman has been a school teacher, probation officer, smallholder, university lecturer, PR Professional, is an international communications consultant and teacher in healthcare and patient safety. Having nursed two partners through the final stages of AIDS, and survived the 2004 Asian Tsunami. A varied and interesting life then – and it is the first thirty years of it that Hugman chooses to concentrate on here. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1508423709</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSpecial Relationship|author=Christopher Dell|title=Mythology: An Illustrated Journey Into Our Imagined WorldsNancy Carver

|genre=Spirituality and ReligionHistory|summary=What does a rainbow mean to you? 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, How would you explain the creation original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the world if you had no science as suchfire and then survived for centuries until World War II, or when it was again ruined by bombs during the changing of Blitz. But that wasn't the seasons? What other kinds end of natures – chaotic trickeryits story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, evil personae or even the characteristics of goats – people your world? And why is it that stones from the answers man and woman have collectively formed church's walls were transported to such questions have been so similar across Fulton, Missouri. There, in the oceans and across grounds of Westminster College, the centuries? This highly pictorial volume looks at the mythologies that formed those answers, church was rebuilt and locks on to today serves as a multitude of subjects – blood, music, godly activity – memorial to show us what has followedWinston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500291519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Moorehead1784385166|title=Village The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of SecretsNazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating=3.5

|summary=''Village of Secrets'' What is an account the first image that comes to mind when you think of resistance (with the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a small 'r') and rescue in a series concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of small villages scattered across the Vivarais-Lignon plateau Third Reich's fascist regime in Vichy Franceall its iniquity. Residents of these villages harboured a number of people, many of them children, many of them Jews, seeking to avoid deportation But some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to concentration camps, at great personal riskyou. There have been other accounts of In this chapter in French history andshort volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the period of course, a great many books about Vichy France in general. However, ''Village of Secrets'' is, perhaps, the most detailed, much Third Reich through one hundred of it based on primary sources (interviews with both rescuers and the rescued, or their families), backed up by extensive documentary researchits material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955464X</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter Finn Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Petra CouveeEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=The Zhivago AffairTiananmen 1989: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden BookOur Shattered Hopes|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyGraphic Novels|summary=One I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the many things to come out second half of this incredibly clear and readable book is that we Brits, for all our literary heritagetheir teens has other priorities, have got nothing like an equivalent to Boris Pasternakyou know. He or she would have to sell like Rowling, regularly capture I certainly didn't know of the enjoyment and spirit weeks of the nation a la Danny Boyle's Olympics ceremonies, protests and at hunger strikes from the same time have students before the cultural heft of Larkin, Rushdie, Graham Greene massacre and more combined. Someone connected with choosing recipients the birth of the Nobel Prize declare him here to be the Soviet TS EliotTank Man image, but thatI didn's nothing like. So t know how the reader probably has to stretch herself to see someone so well-respected and well-loved area had long been a venue for his versepolitical protest, who spent twelve years and I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a huge, society-defining novel, only general browser's context for the country to nix every plan to get it publishedwhole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581345</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ingrid von Oelhafen and Tim Tate0648684806|title=Hitler's Forgotten ChildrenClara Colby: My Life Inside the LebensbornThe International Suffragist|author=John Holliday

|genre=AutobiographyBiography|summary=You see that name that credits the author The path of this book? Forget it, itClara Dorothy Bewick's not accuratelife was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. (I don't mean Tim Tate's workmanlike, journalistic ghost writing, more At the time she was just three-years-old but because of which later.) The narrator of this book did change her name by deed poll to something like Ingrid von Oelhafen some time agochildhood ailment, but not exactly how she wantedwasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. She grew up as Ingrid von OelhafenInstead, although that was the name of she remained with her fathergrandparents, who was so desperately absentdoted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in being over a generation older than his wife, with whom he was separatedand out of school. She might well have had her mother's maiden name if her parents had divorced – was the only child in the household and indeed her mother did move on to have a second familychildhood was glorious. By contrast, and was terribly distant herself – young Ingrid would plead and plead for her company while family had become pioneer farmers in a remote children's home, and a lot the mid-west of family secrets were not passed down at opportune times. Oh, the United States and legally, due to what little documentation life was to be seenhard, such as immunisation record cards, Ingrid Clara was not Ingrid at all, but Erika Matko. Through this book, we to find out when she was not blood-kin with and her brother, grandparents eventually went to join the family. Clara would only know her step-brother was to die, mother for a few months: she was not blood-kin with her sistermarried for fifteen years, but was her brother's, – ohhad ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and even died in this day and age you can still find a changeling foundlingchildbirth not long after Clara arrived. Such incredibly convoluted family trees are As the fault of the Lebensborneldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783961201</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Francis O'Gorman1783784350|title= WorryingThis Golden Fleece: A Literary and Cultural Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= ‘’Worrying: A Literary It 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 Cultural History’’ begins with even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a familiar scene time for anyone who experiences making changes and she decided that persistent feeling she would travel the length and breadth of fretful panic: lying awake the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the early hours, unable farm'' - and learned to switch offspin, thoughts turning over in your headknit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. If this common situation hits home, ‘This book’, its author Francis O’Gorman writes, ‘is for youThis was in her blood.’|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144115129X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Loades1789017977|title=The Seymours of Wolf HallRonnie and Hilda's Romance: A Tudor Family StoryTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= In medieval times Wolf Hall Ronnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or Wolfhall (not they were ever married or even Wulfhall)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 few years off his age. For a while the longfamily was quite well-sinceto-demolished family seat do but disaster struck in Wiltshire, was the home of the Seymour family1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. Their greatest triumph, followed by a speedy decline and fall, One thing he did inherit from his father was part of Tudor history, his need to be well-turned-out and is thus the focus of this bookwould stay with him throughout his life.|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, He joined 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, army at eighteen in this fascinating and intriguing read1942. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551845</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Wilcox1980891117|title=Mudlark RiverG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: Down A year in the Thames with a Victorian Map life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley

|genre=TravelArt|summary=Do you think finding George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a 19th century map would inspire you career lasting from the 1770s to walk the entire length Regency era. He was also one of the Thames? Because most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of that's time he carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, and subsequently transcribed them into what Simon Wilcox didis referred to as his fee book. I think there's something impossibly romantic about that, don't you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993016308</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Williams1789016304|title=The Trains Now DepartedWar and Love: Sixteen Excursions into the Lost Delights of BritainA family's Railwaystestament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=3.5

|summary=Beaching wasnMelanie 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''t but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, but only buffer five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Most people believed that the fate of various train lines of our land – it occupation could have been sheer managerial incompetence, the birth of the package air holiday, or never happen: even road-builders' bloody-minded spite those who thought that served to bring down the end of Germans might reach the line. Yescity were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the fact you can easily pepper your words with idiom from Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the world of trains shows how important they have been over the last two hundred yearsway that it did, and this book is geared around that but initial protests melted away as well, if happily cliché-freethe organisers became more circumspect. Our author takes us It's an atrocity on a journey around various sites where train lines and elements vast scale but made up of tens of what once rode proudly upon them have been and gone. So grab a platform ticket (RIP) and see what class thousands of journey we're travelling inindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848094353</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John George Freeman and Ronnie Scott (editor)1908745819|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 its own history is needed in summary. A year or two ago, our presenter Shaun Sewell was buying some private documents from the descendants of John George Freeman, to complete a set of illustrated travel journals he'd met with when risking a punt on the first few at auction. He was intent on getting them published since finding them, and seemed to be the first person with that desire since they were first written in the 1870s. Back then they were well-written, educative and entertaining looks at the early days of the travel industry, when for example piers were novel(ty) ways for the rail companies to justify sending people to the ends 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 households.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947441</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSurfacing|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 is, more than anything, a history book, albeit one in which the writer's deep love of his adopted home (Granada and, more specifically, the Albayzín, the district he lives in), 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=Waterloo: The AftermathKathleen Jamie|rating=4.5

|summary=There have been several accounts of the battle of Waterloo and of the events Sometimes when people suggest that led up to you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. But Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it is always interesting turns out that we didn't like the book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to discover hearing a book which finds calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a different way bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the natural world, of those aspects of telling the talepoetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course, or in this case focusing more book had my name on what happened directly afterwardsit. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563797</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Buk-Swienty0857058320|title=1864: The forgotten war that shaped modern EuropeLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|summary=The brief but bloody clash of arms between Denmark ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and Prussia which took place death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in 1864 has never been regarded as one of the major 19th century European warsSpanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, and I cannot recall having ever seen a single volume devoted to it so faris the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. In Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this book, which forms dictator. The question at the basis centre of a new TV drama series, Tom Buk-Swienty has done us a service in reminding us that this book is whether it had is possible for his great uncle to be a far greater political impact than we may have appreciatedhero whilst having fought for the wrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252769</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Treglown0008294011|title=Franco's CryptHow to Lose a Country: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating=34.5

|summary=With 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 question ''Franco’s CryptDiscuss the factors which led to...'' Jeremy Treglown has taken a highly charged subject – life in Spain under Franco – I agreed that she was right and placed wasn't certain whether it under was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to some might appear a somewhat revisionist microscope. His aim appears to be twofold: to consider the nature of collective memory, particularly I think now that I do know. We are in the light danger of the exhumations losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of mass graves that commenced earlier this centurya better one, and, secondly, to examine – and celebrate - Spain’s cultural output during Franco’s years particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701157</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Derek Niemann1788037812|title=A Nazi in The Fraternity of the FamilyEstranged: The Hidden Story of an SS Family Fight for Homosexual Rights in Wartime GermanyEngland, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|summary=It goes almost without saying Originally passed in 1885, the law that sixteenthhad made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-century Englandsex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, at three books on the height nature of religious persecution, was a pretty perilous agehomosexuality appeared. Queen Mary was notorious for the number of Protestants who They were burnt at the stake for their beliefs during her five-year reign. A belief widely held written by many (depending on your religiontwo homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as likely well as not) the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was that during common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the forty-five years that ‘Good Queen Bess’ reignedUK, greater toleration held sway. This has recently been disproved beyond doubt by several historiansso the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and this book likewise helps beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to underline the savagery towards Catholics that was endemic under her rulemilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700053</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Greene1910593508|title=Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of RussiaApollo|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summaryauthor=It's no mistake that the cover of my edition of this book is a photo where the Trans-Siberian Railway is horizontal in the frame. It's well known for going east-west, left to right across the map of the largest country by far in the world. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow to the eastern stretches of Russia, it could only be a long, thin line across the cover, as it is in our imagination of it as a form of transport and a travel destination in its own right. So when this book mentions it as the spine or backbone of Russia a couple of times, that's got to be of a prone Russia – one lying down, not upright or active. David Greene, a stalwart of northern American radio journalismMatt Fitch, uses this book to see just how active or otherwise Russia Chris Baker and Russians are – and finds their lying down to be quite a definite verdict, as well as a slight indictment. 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>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen Bates|title=1815: Regency Britain in the Year of WaterlooMike Collins|rating=4.5

|summary=The idea of taking This incredible graphic novel is a pivotal year from love letter to the past Moon landings and devoting a whole book to the themepassion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, embracing political, social Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and military historybecause of this, is the authors take a very interesting onefew narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. Stephen Bates did so successfully not long ago If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with ‘Two Nations: Britain in 1846’, the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and here he does the same again, taking that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a step graphic novel that could easily have been three decades backtimes as long and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858217</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lena Mukhina and Amanda Love Darragh (translator)1786331047|title=The Diary of Lena MukhinaRace to Save the Romanovs: 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 Truth Behind the diet away, itSecret Plans to Rescue Russia'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>}}{{newreviewImperial Family|author=Jerry White|title=Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World WarHelen Rappaport

|summary=It seems that only recently, with The basic facts about the centenary deaths of the outbreak Nicholas and Alexandra, some of which were deliberately obscured at the First World War upon ustime for various reasons, that historians have really looked thoroughly at the social history aspect and the effect it had on the population at homelong since been established. Jerry White, who has already made a study of London over For the last three centuries or so few months of their lives in previous titlesRussia the former Tsar and Tsarina, now turns his attention to life their children and few remaining servants were held in the capital during those momentous four yearsincreasingly squalid, humiliating captivity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556049</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Esterly|title=The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of Making|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Bouncing between his studio To prevent them from being rescued, in upstate New York and July 1918 the sites of various English sojourns, woodcarver David Esterly's seems to be an idyllic existence. Yet it's not revolutionary regime had them all cosy cottages in the snow shot and watching geese and coyotes when he looks up from his workbench. There is an element of hard-won retreat from the trials of life bayoneted to death in this memoircircumstances which, but at once the same time there is an argument for the essential difficulty of the artist's life. 'Carvers are starversnews was confirmed beyond all doubt,' a wizened English carver once told him. Certainly there is no great fortune to be won from a profession as obscure as limewood carving, but the rewards outweigh the hard graft for Esterlyhorrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649191</amazonuk>