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|author=Jessie Childs
|title=God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=It goes almost without saying that sixteenth-century England, at the height of religious persecution, was a pretty perilous age. Queen Mary was notorious for the number of Protestants who were burnt at the stake for their beliefs during her five-year reign. A belief widely held by many (depending on your religion, as likely as not) was that during the forty-five years that ‘Good Queen Bess’ reigned, greater toleration held sway. This has recently been disproved beyond doubt by several historians, and this book likewise helps to underline the savagery towards Catholics that was endemic under her rule.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700053</amazonuk>
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|author=David Greene
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704372983</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Van der Kiste
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099597888</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612346685</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dan Jones
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858853</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Iain Gately
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781854068</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=James Evans
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780221029</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emma Marriott
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432175</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581647</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Slideshow: Memories of a Wartime Childhood
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373599</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572281</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848327498</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Making of Home
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848877986</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived and Will Never Die
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958725</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Witches: James I and the English Witch Hunts
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649167</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Golden Parasol
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555999</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Great War: The People's Story
|genre=History
|summary=During this centenary year, we have seen many ways of telling the history of the conflict which broke out among the Great Powers of Europe and soon involved all four corners of the world. This volume, based on a recent ITV series of the same title, approaches it from an angle which I have not seen before. It follows the course of events over the four years through the letters, memoirs and diaries of about a dozen individuals as it presents their story against the background of fighting on the continental mainland, and of bereavement, shortages and more at home.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947255</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Elizabeth of York
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546477</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=A Broken World: Letters, diaries and memories of the Great War
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954223</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Greatest Escape: How one French community saved thousands of lives from the Nazis
|summary=We've read it before and been grateful, and now we can read it again, and for the same reasons – educational, entertainment, moralistic – we can be grateful. We've probably all heard how one place or circumstance – most famously, Oscar Schindler's factory – led to a major underhand rescue operation to keep Jews from being the victims of the Final Solution in World War Two. This book is a further example, but one of a whole French district being complicit in helping defy the Nazi authorities. Centred around Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in the heart of southern France, a very rural community based around Huguenot Protestants with their own experiences of religious persecution decided en masse to act as shelter for a whole host of people – mostly children rescued from transit and internment camps elsewhere in France, and the Jewish victims of the Vichy government rules demanding they be stateless or, worse, victims of a certain one-way train ride. But beyond becoming an idyllic place to hide out in plain view, the towns and villages also conspired to actively export the Jews themselves – to places of safety.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886267</amazonuk>
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