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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Stephen HallidayClive Wilkinson|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09BLBP3P8|title=Cathedrals and Abbeys (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager

|summary=What makes a cathedral? It's not automatically Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the principal church popular imagination of anywhere that is made a city – St Davids is a village the early days of 2,000 people, and wasn't always a city, but always had a cathedralWorld War II from 1939-40, known as did Chelmsford. Itthe 's not the seat of a bishop – Glasgow has the building but not the person, and hasn't had a bishop since 1690. ItPhoney War's not a minster – that's something completely different. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, and if you can understand the sign Churchill coming in to save the delightful Beverley Minster describing the difference, that I saw only the other month, you're a better man I, Gunga Dinday. Luckily Very little time is spent on this book doesn't touch on minsters much, period in cultural reflections and we can understand abbeysyet, so it's only the vast majority of as Frederic Seager argues in this book that is saddled with the definition problem. It's clearly not a real problem, and those it does have are by-passable, for this successfully defines a cathedral as somewhere was of major importance, fine trivia and greatly worthy of our attentionvital significance in how the war played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821047</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dominic Pearce3756228711|title= Henrietta MariaCDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=''The phrase history of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'tragic Queen'  Author Hans Bodmer is an often overused onequite right about that. He has chosen to tell us about the short, but the French princess who became the second Stuart Queen Consort explosive, history of Britain surely has as strong a claim as any to the titleControl Data Company, CDC, for whom he worked. In British history she was unique It's a fascinating tale, told in that she not only lived to see her husband defeated in civil war, but also sentenced to death a mixture of technological summary and in effect judicially murderedwry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445645475</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Zoe BramleyJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title= The Shakespeare TrailFritz and Kurt|rating= 4|genre= TriviaConfident Readers|summary= It has been 400 years since William ShakespeareWe start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the man heralded as empty market place, helping the greatest writer in neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the English language, synagogue choir and England's national poet, diedat a vocational school. Shakespeare Kurt has made a profound mark to make sure the lamps are turned on our culture at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and heritageworkmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, yet many aspects and instead of his life remain in having a national vote to keep the shadowsNazis out, and many places throughout England have forgotten their association invite them in with himopen arms. Here ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, Zoe Bramley takes as did all the reader on a journey through hundreds round-ups of places associated Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with Shakespeare – many whose connections will come as a surprise his mother and sisters anxious to most. Filled with intriguing titbits hear word of information about Shakespearean evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, Elizabethan Englandunknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the places that she talks about, stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this is no mere travel guide. could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445646846</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen HallidayJohn Henry Phillips|title=London (Amazing The Search|rating=5|genre=History|summary=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 case of the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic of the titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and Extraordinary Facts)it's underwater, when 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 Normandy, and that 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?|isbn=1472146182}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|genre=TriviaHistorical Fiction|summary= What makes a city? Is it It's the materials, such as later stages of World War I and the very London Stone itself, of mythological repute, that United States has moved around several times, and now forms part of just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a WH Smith's branch? (This young American who has nothing, of course, on Temple Bar, which has also been known to walksigned up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron.) Is it This company was the people – the butchers [[Jack the Ripper: CSI: Whitechapel by John Bennett and Paul Begg|(Jack the Ripper)]]first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the bakers (or whoever set fire first to be attached to the entire city from Pudding Lane) RAF and the candlestick makers? Is it the infrastructure, from first to be sent into the Underground, whose one-time boss got a medal from Stalin for his success, skies to fight the London Bridge itself, Germans in active combat. But before that in its own wanderlust means it's highly unlikely the Thames will freeze again? However you define a citycan happen, London certainly Petrol has a lot going for it as regards weird and wonderful, and to master flying the trivial yet fascinatingnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. And, luckily for us, so has this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821020</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen Halliday0578761718|title=London Underground (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)The Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating=4.5|genre=TravelHistory|summary= From initial worries about smuttyThe church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, enclosed air with a pungent smell to decades when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of human hair and engine grease causing escalator fires; London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from just a few lines connecting London termini to major jaunts out into Metro-land 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 suburbia-bound commuters; and from end of its story: after a few religious-minded if financially dodgy pioneer investment managers to Crossrail; phenomenal fundraising effort, the history of stones from the worldchurch's most extensive underground system (even when a majority is actually above ground) is fascinating walls were transported to manyFulton, Missouri. This book is a repository There, in the grounds of much that is entirely trivialWestminster College, but is also pretty much thoroughly interestingthe church was rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821039</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Holland1784385166|title=Railways (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating=35|genre=TravelHistory|summary=How and when did Laurel and Hardy replace the Duke of York (George VI)? They reopened the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway when peacetime resumed, at whose launch the latter had officiated before the War. What's is the worst first image that can happen comes to mind when you travel internationally and arrive on think of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a London goods train with no further destination documentsconcentration camp? Well, if youNone of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Third Reich're an unidentifiable Peruvian mummy you can get buried as an unknown corpse before the invoice turns up to prove you were wanted s fascist regime in Belgiumall its iniquity. After so many miles and so much drama, it's no surprise odd facts But some objects and fun trivia derive images from our country's trainsthat time may be less familiar to you. This book is designed In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to be an ideal source illustrate the period of quick articles and fun mini-essays for use in the smallest roomThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821004</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paddy HayesLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= Queen of SpiesTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryGraphic Novels|summary= Paddy Hayes 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 created an extensive account other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the life massacre and career the birth of an extraordinary female spy. Daphne Park has faced sexismthe Tank Man image, brutality and betrayal. She has bravely stood against terrorI didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, charmed diplomats and navigated her way through I didn't know more than a spit about the then alien Soviet Russiapeople involved on either side. Hers This book is an incredible life, one that brings practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the nail-biting and seat teetering that we expect from a spy storywhole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715650432</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanne Parker0648684806|title=Britannia ObscuraClara Colby: Mapping Britain's Hidden LandscapesThe International Suffragist|author=John Holliday

|summary=What shape do you assume Britain It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to be? people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. If you merely go by the current map, you're holding yourself ransom by the secessionists wanting devolution, The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a time for making changes to the boundaries within Britain, but doesn't the place go beyond and she decided that outline on she would travel the page? Remember, it used to be connected to mainland Europe, length and once we'd sort-breadth of-settled into one kingdom on our shores [[Divorcedthe British Isles with occasional forays abroad, Beheaded, Died...: The History discovering and telling the story of Britainwool's Kings history and how it had made and Queens in Bite-Sized Chunks by Kevin Flude|changed the people in charge]] were also ruling over parts of Francelandscape. And of course – She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the twofarm'' -dimensional plan of the British Isles is nowhere near the real story, for we have many coastal waters, we have airspaceand learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and we have a large subterranean territoryher mother's friend. You can definitely throw away the imagined space of Britain, for the reality is far granderThis was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700002</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Suzannah Lipscomb1789017977|title= The King is Dead|rating= 5|genre= History|summary= Shortly before his death in January 1547, King Henry VIII's last will Ronnie and testament was read, stamped and sealed. It has remained one of the most intriguing and contested documents in British history. This book examines it from every angle, and analyses the background against the last days of the KingHilda's life and the events which followed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081922</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRomance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author= Ian Mortimer|title= Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on EarthWendy Williams

|genre= History|summary= We are an astonishing species. Over Ronnie Williams was the past millennium son of plagues Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and exploration, revolution and scientific discovery, womenEthel Wall. There's rights and technological advances, human society has changed beyond recognition. Best known for his ''Time Travellersome doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's Guide'' history booksbirthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, Ian Mortimer here gives 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 reader a whistlefamily was quite well-to-stop tour through ten centuries. ''Human Race'' contains do but disaster struck in the lunar leaps 1929 Depression and lightbulb moments that, for better or worse, have sent humanity swerving down five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a path that novery different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-one could have predictedout and this would stay with him throughout his life. The question here is which of He joined the last ten centuries saw the greatest change army at eighteen in human history?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593386</amazonuk>1942.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Catherine Hewitt1980891117|title= The Mistress G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of ParisGeorge Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyArt|summary= Born into povertyGeorge Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, no-one could have guessed that with a career lasting from the 1770s to the girl who would Regency era. He was also one day be known as Valtesse de la Bigne would have achieved greatness. This is of the tale of her rise to wealth and power – starting in a dress shop as a thirteen year oldmost prolific, painting nearly 5, but fast becoming a courtesan who would be fought 000 miniatures altogether (over by some twenty of them being of the greatest men King George III). Throughout most of her that time. A woman who kept an air he carefully recorded the names of mystery about many details each of her life, Catherine Hewitt nevertheless paints an incredible story around the gapshis clients, and this proves subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to be both a full and intriguing biography, and a fascinating portrait of the time periodas his fee book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848319266</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Beard1789016304|title= SPQR War and Love: A History of Ancient Rome|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=How do we know what really happened at any moment in history? At best we make educated guesses based on (often conflicting) evidence. The most striking aspect of Mary Beardfamily's new examination testament of Roman history is how far she goes to see all sides and all possible explanations of events. For exampleanguish, were the emperors Nero and Caligula mad or simply the victims of their successors' smear campaign? What's behind all that nonsense about the city of Rome being founded by twin boys suckled by wolves? This is a book that explodes some of the myths endurance and presents alternative answers. Mary Beard analyses the evidence to shed new light on how a small community grew to become an empire. Military force was important, but other threads devotion in the weave (such as social mobility and the effect of extending citizenship to many of the conquered) made the Roman experience unique. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683807</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewoccupied Amsterdam|author=Despina Stratigakos|title=Hitler at HomeMelanie Martin

|summary=Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''Please do not make Hitler look good.The Diary of Ann Frank'' Words to live by but then realised that the author of this volume received from her mother, a Kefalonian who knew Nazi abuse when she saw itown family's stories were equally fascinating. Rest assured that A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the book does not do thatwar years, but it certainly provides a much fresher, more eloquent only five thousand survived and interesting look at certain aspects of his life, and introduces us Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to someone else from the Nazi times – Gerdy Troost, happen in a country with liberal values who might as well be summarised as Hitler's interior designerwere resistant to German occupation. In picking apart Most people believed that the entire life of Troost, occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the nature of her work and how Germans might reach the buildings and décor she surrounded Hitler in became a part of his propaganda, we get a refreshingly new yet authoritative bookcity were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that for those with an interest the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in this side of our recent history will easily be considered one of, if not theway that it did, best book of but initial protests melted away as the yearorganisers became more circumspect. The person who does come out with the laurels worn highest is our authorIt's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>030018381X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elizabeth Norton1908745819|title= The Temptation Of Elizabeth Tudor|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Life, or rather survival, in Tudor England was a precarious business. Being close to the crown was anything but a guarantee of safety, as the fate of two of King Henry VIII's Queen's amply demonstrated. His second daughter Elizabeth led a charmed life and went on to reign as Queen for over forty years, but she too had some narrow escapes when her liberty if not her very existence was under threat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081728</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSurfacing|author=Alison Maloney|title=Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian ServantsKathleen Jamie

|summary=Life in Edwardian times is currently Sometimes when people suggest that you read a popular subjectcertain book, thanks in no small part to they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out thatwe didn't like the book. That' period drama currently showing its final series on ITVs 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 author considering ''Life Below Stairsan older, less tethered sense of herself.'' examines Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the subject in greater detailnatural world, looking at documents of those aspects of the poetic and memoirs from the time to discover what life was really like for those in service. We learn lyrical that are about the strict hierarchy in the household style not form, and the duties expected substance most of each individualall, about connection. We see how much each member of staff Of course, this book had my name on it. It was paid and how workers were hired (and in many cases, fired) from their positionswritten for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. Welcome I am pleased to a slice of Edwardian life, served up with a delicious mix of period illustrations and newspaper clippings|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434356</amazonuk>have it fall onto my path so quickly.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lucy Adlington0857058320|title= Stitches in Time: The Story of Lord Of All the Clothes We Wear Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|genre= History|summary=''Stitches in TimeLord Of All the Dead'' is a lively history of clothingjourney to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Riffling through Cercas is searching for the wardrobes of years gone by, costume historian Lucy Adlington reveals the stories underneath the clothes we wear meaning behind his great uncle's death in this tour of the history of fashion, ranging from ancient times to the present daySpanish Civil War. With beautiful illustrations and full colour photographsManuel Mena, Cercas''Stitches in Time'' great uncle, is a reminder of how the way we dress is inextricably bound up with considerations of aesthetics, sex, gender, class and lifestyle – and offers the reader the chance to appreciate figure who looms large over the extraordinary qualities of the clothing we wear, and the rich history it has ledbook. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947263</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jeffrey James|title= Edward IV: Glorious Son of York|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= Medieval EnglandHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's own game of thrones, forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The Wars of the Roses, was question at the centre of a turbulent age. In retrospect much of the history of medieval England, between the Norman conquest and the advent of the Tudors, seems this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to have been 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 for thirty years, were more protracted and even more brutal than the rest, with several fierce battles and sudden changes of fortune hero whilst having fought for the two rival families, both descended from King Edward III. The rise, fall and rise again of King Edward IV was a constant theme of the warswrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445646218</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dan Jones0008294011|title= Realm Divided: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= 1215 has gone down in history as the year of Magna Carta, the result of King John's increasingly discontented barons attempts How to exert control over their wayward and stubborn monarch. John had succeeded to the throne of England in 1199, at the end of an often turbulent century. His father, Henry II, had succeeded in restoring the authority of the crown after almost twenty years of civil war between the supporters of two rival claimants to the kingdom. He had inherited Lose a challenging set on both sides of the Channel, and within four years had been driven out of most of the French ones, notably the duchy of Normandy. Posterity would bestow on him the unflattering nicknames 'John Softsword' and later 'John Lackland'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858829</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Keith Jeffery|title=1916Country: A Global History|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=1916 was a pivotal year in modern history. It witnessed the Easter Rising in Dublin, the battles of Verdun and the Somme, and the election of Woodrow Wilson as American President. These, and several other events described in this book in detail, were later seen as crucial staging points in the course of the First World War.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408834308</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gary Cox|title= Deep Thought: 42 Fantastic Quotes that Define Philosophy |rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= Who really knows what ''Cogito ergo sum'' means? Yes, you may know that Descartes said it, and that it translates as 'I think, therefore I am', but what was it the French philosopher was trying The 7 Steps from Democracy to say about human existence when he said this most quotable and definitive phrase? And, for that matter, ''where'' did he say it? Was it in the seventeenth century or the eighteenth? If these are 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 to your library. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472567269</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDictatorship|author=Kevin Flude|title=Divorced, Beheaded, Died...: The History of Britain's Kings and Queens in Bite-Sized ChunksEce Temelkuran

|summary=History lives. Proof of A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that sweeping statement can we were living through what in years to come would be had in this book, and in discussed by A level history students when faced with the fact that while it only reached question ''Discuss the grand old age of six, it has had the dust brushed off it and has been reprinted – and while the present royal incumbent it ends its main narrative with has not changed, other things havefactors which led to... '' This has quietly been updated to include the reburial of Richard III in Leicester, I agreed that she was right and seems to have been rereleased at wasn't certain whether it was a perfectly apposite time, as only the week before I write these words the Queen has surpassed good or bad thing that we didn't know what all those who came before her as our longest serving ruler'this' was leading to. Such details may be trivia to some – especially those of us of a more royalist bent – and important facts to othersI think now that I do know. The perfect balance We are in danger of that coupling – trivia losing democracy and detail – whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is what makes this book so worthwhileas rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434631</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma Marriott1788037812|title= I Used to Know ThatThe Fraternity of the Estranged: HistoryThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating= 45|genre= Politics and SocietyHistory|summary= I've picked up Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a few things over the crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, most notably from English language text three books while TEFLing abroad (there's nothing like an exciting lesson on Guy Fawkes to have a classroom the nature of Mexicans wondering why we so love to celebrate a terrorist attack that didn't happen)homosexuality appeared. But I have gapsThey were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of this I am suresociety and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, and I thought so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to get a basic the scientific understanding ofhomosexuality, welland beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the basics that we all should know, a quick read milestone legalisation of this book wouldn't hurtsame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434488</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bruce Hugman1910593508|title= Out 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>}}{{newreviewApollo|author=Christopher Dell|title=Mythology: 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 answersMatt Fitch, Chris Baker 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 SecretsMike Collins|rating=3.5

|summary=''Village of Secrets'' This incredible graphic novel is an account of resistance (with a small 'r') love letter to the Moon landings and rescue in a series of small villages scattered across the Vivarais-Lignon plateau in Vichy Francepassion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. Residents of these villages harboured This is 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 story we know well and because of this chapter in French history and, of course, the authors take a great many books about Vichy France few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in generalthe blanks. However, These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you''Village ve ever read a comic book adaptation of Secrets'' a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is, perhaps, the most detailed, much of it based on primary sources (interviews with both rescuers a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and the rescued, or their families), backed up by extensive documentary researchstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955464X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Finn and Petra Couvee1786331047|title=The Zhivago AffairRace to Save the Romanovs: The Kremlin, Truth Behind the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden BookSecret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport

|genre=BiographyHistory|summary=One of The basic facts about the many things to come out deaths of this incredibly clear Nicholas and readable book is that we BritsAlexandra, 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 some of the nation a la Danny Boyle's Olympics ceremonies, and which were deliberately obscured at the same time have the cultural heft of Larkin, Rushdie, Graham Greene 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 versevarious reasons, who spent twelve years and more on a huge, society-defining novel, only for the country to nix every plan to get it publishedhave long since been established.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581345</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ingrid von Oelhafen and Tim Tate|title=Hitler's Forgotten Children: My Life Inside For the Lebensborn|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=You see that name that credits the author last few months 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 their lives in Russia the name of her father, who was so desperately absent, 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 – former Tsar and indeed her mother did move on to have a second familyTsarina, and was terribly distant herself – young Ingrid would plead and plead for her company while in a remote their children's home, and a lot of family secrets few remaining servants were not passed down at opportune times. Oh, and legally, due to what little documentation was to be seen, such as immunisation record cards, Ingrid was not Ingrid at allheld in increasingly squalid, but Erika Matkohumiliating captivity. Through this book, we find she was not blood-kin with her brotherTo prevent them from being rescued, 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 July 1918 the fault of the Lebensborn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783961201</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Francis O'Gorman|title= Worrying: A Literary revolutionary regime had them all shot 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 bayoneted to death in circumstances which, once the early hours, unable to switch offnews was confirmed beyond all doubt, thoughts turning over horrified their relatives in your headEurope. If this common situation hits home, ‘This book’, its author Francis O’Gorman writes, ‘is for you.’|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144115129X</amazonuk>