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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil MonneryJacqueline Rose|title=Safe As Houses? A Historical Analysis of Property PricesWomen in Dark Times
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|genre=HistoryBiography|summary=Neil Monnery was asked to become a trustee ''The world of a local charity with most the unconscious is not the antagonist of political life, but its assets in local residential property. Over steadfast companion, the years this had yielded good results and the charity was concerned as to whether hidden place or not they should continue on the same basis or diversify and Monnery said that he would look into this. That discussion was the genesis for this book as he began backdrop where any true revolution must begin…'' Women in Dark Times is Jacqueline Rose's homage to research the courageous women throughout history , particularly women of house prices – in the UK 21st, 20th and 19th centuries. Her historical and political backdrop is, thus, expansive, yet she navigates it with intelligence and elsewhere – for as far back as he could go an acknowledgment that feminism's lengthy mission is a testament to establish whether or its successes, and not house were, well, as safe as housesits failures: ''the ongoing force of feminism''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907994017</amazonuk>1804271713
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew WilsonMary McCarthy|title=Shadow Memories of the Titanica Catholic Girlhood
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|genre=HistoryAutobiography|summary=Lesson one in writing non-fiction articles and journalism seems to be Mary McCarthy describes herself as an ''amateur architect'', obsessively digging into the past to find out what is topical. April 2012 is piece together the centenary broken mosaic of her life. She attributes her ''burning interest in the sinking of past'' to her orphanhood, as she lacked any second-hand memories from her parents, who died in the Titanic1918 flu epidemic. This memoir chronicles her early years, beginning with her orphanhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she lived under the harsh guardianship of her late father's Irish Catholic parents and her abusive Uncle Myers and there are going to be hoards of people finding it topical to celebrate thatAunt Margaret. Lesson two seems Later, she moved to be Seattle to find your own unique angle on the storylive with her maternal grandparents—her grandmother being Jewish and her grandfather Presbyterian—who provided her with a different kind of upbringing. Wilson approaches |isbn=1804271659}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Titanic disaster Edges of England by sinking her at the end Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of chapter one, travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he looks more at neared his eightieth birthday the lives idea of exploring the people on boardedges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and how they took the calamity and dealt with his wife, Joan, shouldn't it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377300</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter EnglundB09BLBP3P8|title=The Beauty and the SorrowNeville Chamberlain's War: An intimate history of the first world warHow Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager
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|summary=In simple terms Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the First early days of World War, like most (if not all) conflicts has come down to us largely as a fourII from 1939-year sequence of events, an acknowledgement of defeat by one side, and a peace agreement. Yet there are many different ways of telling its history40, and known as Englund tells us in his preface, this is not a book about what it the '''was'Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, but about what it was '''like'''. Though a series of snapshots and Churchill coming in words, he shows us various stages of to save the conflict and its effect on peopleday. His emphasis Very little time is not so much events spent on this period in cultural reflections and processesyet, but more the feelingsas Frederic Seager argues in this book, impressions, experiences and moods it was of individuals caught up vital significance in how the periodwar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683424</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Oppenheimer3756228711|title=MachiavelliCDC: A Life Beyond Ideology The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer
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|summary=Writing a ''The history of English food, and to some extent drink, must be a daunting task, but as an experienced TV presenter (as one the development of IT could fill books of the several hundred pages.''Two Fat Ladies'' with the late Jennifer Paterson) and as one who was born in the post-war rationing world in 1947, Clarissa Dickson Wright is well placed to do so.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905211856</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ArdaghJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of Kings, Queens, Emperors Fritz and Rotten Wart-Nosed CommonersKurt|rating=3.54|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=If you deem a good children's historical trivia book We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to be one that tells youdo – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the adultneighbours, something they didn't know about historical trivia, then this is being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a good examplevocational school. I didnKurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours't know George V broke his pelvis when his horse fell on him, startled by some post-WWI huzzahseach Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. I didnBut this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler't know Charles VI s will, and instead of France nearly got torched having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in some drunken bacchanalwith open arms. The length of time Charlemagne sat on a throne (over 400 whole years (even if he wasn't wholly whole all that time)) was news to me'Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as was did all the raffle that was held (more round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or less) for being the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown soldierinitially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. Therefore this is a good book And us wondering how the titular event for children and the adults willing to instill some historical trivia into them.adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330471732</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Timothy SnyderJohn Henry Phillips|title=Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and StalinThe Search
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|summary=The first chapter is enough. I donArchaeology cannot be child't mean the prefaces play, or introduction, that mean when you start reading chapter one about an hour 're scraping inthe dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but chapter one itselfnot 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, detailing as our author promises to locate the topic of the titular search. And he really hasn't made it does easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the way Stalin blatantly enforced collectivization on Ukrainetarget might not exist any more – oh, and it's farmsunderwater, thus killing off millions of local civilianswhen he cannot dive. The seed stock ended up being taken away as part of Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the grain quota heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to feed find the rest of the Soviet Unionlanding craft that delivered him to Normandy, and hardly anybody failed that he was lucky to go without at some point as a resultsurvive when it sank from beneath him. The first chapter here, then, secondary aim is more than enough in telling us what we didn't knowto erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, explaining perfectly lucidly yet academically how and why what happened happened, and at times the vast majority of quite gruesome anecdote and contemporary reportage, churning our stomachs and making us have second thoughts about reading onwhom perished.Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099551799</amazonuk>1472146182
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title= Flights for Freedom|author=Jeremy PaxmanSteven Burgauer|rating=4.5|titlegenre=Historical Fiction|summary=Empire: What Ruling It's the later stages of World Did War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the Britishfirst to be attached to the RAF and the first 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0578761718|title=The Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating=4.5
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|summary=In The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the 21st centuryCity of London from at least 1181, the British Empire may be an anachronismwhen it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, something for which hand-wringing politicians and church leaders may be ever ready to apologise. Many of us have grown up just as the last imperial remnants were crumbling away. Yet its legacy is everywhere, and for better or worse will always be part of original church was destroyed in the very fabric Great Fire of BritainLondon in 1666. As Jeremy Paxman demonstrates It was rebuilt in this excellent overview, published as Portland stone from a curtain-raiser to his series on design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the subjectfire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it is never very far away from uswas again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. After But that wasn't the end of its story: after a period of trying phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported to distance ourselves from itFulton, Missouri. There, we seem to be on in the verge grounds of coming to terms with Westminster College, the simple truth that it church was not so bad rebuilt and today serves as it has sometimes been painted. Moreover, it should be remembered that even if Britain emerged from the Second World War battered and broke, it still possessed sufficient imperial presence a memorial to become one of the Permanent Five on the United Nations Security CouncilWinston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919578</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Willis1784385166|title=The Glorious First of JuneThird Reich in 100 Objects: Fleet Battle in the Reign A Material History of TerrorNazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse
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|summary=To be frank, I was not expecting a lot from this account What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a famous maritime battle. Marine warfare histories can be rather dull, with lists concentration camp? None of ships and mind-numbing detail that may appeal if you have an intimate knowledge these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of a warshipthe Third Reich's anatomy, but quite deathly for the rest of usfascist regime in all its iniquity. But I was gripped some objects and images from the first page that time may be less familiar to you. In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the last by this really insightful account not just period of the battle but Third Reich through one hundred of the whole political and historical events which inspired itits material artefacts. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160384</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Julius NorwichLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=A History of England in 100 PlacesTiananmen 1989: From Stonehenge to the GherkinOur Shattered Hopes
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|genre=HistoryGraphic Novels|summary=There are many different ways I never really followed the events of telling Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the history second half of England (indeed just Englandtheir teens has other priorities, not Wales you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and Scotlandthe birth of the Tank Man image, as I didn't know how the author makes clear). This takes area had long been a very simple venue for political protest, and very effective approach to I didn't know more than a spit about the matter, by focusing people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a hundred specific places which somehow illustrate the nationgeneral browser's progress from prehistoric times to today, context for the whole season of protests back in chronological order1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848546068</amazonuk>1684056993
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nancy Mitford0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The Sun KingInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday
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|genre=HistoryBiography|summary=Nancy Mitford assumes that youThe path of Clara Dorothy Bewick'll need no introduction s life was probably determined when her family emigrated to Louis XIV, who ascended the throne when he USA. At the time she was four just three-years -old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and reigned for well over seventy two yearsthree brothers. To put him in context his reign began before Charles I was executed in WhitehallInstead, lasted through the English Civil Warshe remained with her grandparents, Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealthwho doted on her and saw that she received a good education, the reigns of Charles I, James II, William III both in and into the beginning out of the reign of Queen Anneschool. He bridged She was the gap between only child in the middle ages household and the early modern eraher childhood was glorious.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099528886</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen O'Shea|title=The Friar of Carcassonne: Revolt Against the Inquisition By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the Last Days mid-west of the Cathars|rating=4|genre=History|summary=It starts with a painting. The painting isn't United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the point: the subject isfamily. In the Autumn of 1319 Clara would only know her mother for a Franciscan Friar stands before his accusers. Entitled ''L'Agitateur du Languedoc'' the artwork portrays the trial of Bernard Délicieuxfew months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, the eponymous Friar of Carcassonneseven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. Although O'Shea veers clear of telling us the outcome of As the trialeldest girl, one cannot help feeling that it wasn't an acquittal. Such things tended not to go down in history quite so resoundingly. Not in those daysa heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668319X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Kelly1783784350|title=Finding PolandThis Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter
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|summary=Looking at any historical map of Poland anyone may see how its borders have changed over the centuries. Where will you find the Polish home? One answer must be that it is founded deep It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in the hearts of the Polish her office job, writing to people who fought for the liberty she'd never met and the integrity of the Polish homelandpreparing spreadsheets. Now consider the promontory of land around Vilnius, or Wilno as it was then known, which was contained inside Poland in 1921 The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. It January was an area in which the small market town of Hruzdowa, comprising some 52 buildings and just large enough going to warrant be a town hall, was situated. These wild borderlands – known as the Kresy - were fought over time for centuries by Austrians, Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians making changes and Lithuanians. It was here she decided that Matthew Kelly's great-grandfather, who had imbibed she would travel the values length and élan breadth of the dashing officer class, Rafal Ryzewscy, came to teach British Isles with his clever young wifeoccasional forays abroad, Hannadiscovering and telling the story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. They were deeply committed to progress through education She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the farm'' - and learned to peaceably raising their two little daughters. Howeverspin, the dreadful knit and weave from her mother and calamitous year of 1939, her mother's friend. This was approaching when Hitler and Stalin partitioned Poland in the most cynical pacther blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099515997</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Conefrey1789017977|title=How to Climb Mont Blanc in Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a Skirt: A Handbook for the Lady AdventurerNew Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams
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|summary=Operation Market Garden, September 1944 is encapsulated for most people in Ronnie Williams was the Hollywood movie "A Bridge Too Far" which, like most movies, gets some son of it right Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some of it wrong. Such anyway is Bennettdoubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's assessmentbirthdate: 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. So what is For a while the true story of what one Major Norton called a magnificent family was quite well-to-do but disaster, perhaps consciously echoing that judgement on struck in the charge of 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the Light Brigade army at eighteen in a far earlier conflict "C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre"?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>193514989X</amazonuk>1942.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynn Peril1980891117|title=Swimming in the Steno PoolG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A Retro Guide to Making It year in the Officelife of George Engleheart|author=John Webley
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|genre=HistoryArt|summary=The subtitle George Engleheart was one of this book suggests a survival guide to secretarial work. Howeverthe leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, this is definitely not with a handbook, but an examination of career lasting from the portrayal of the job and those who do it in the media and in handbooks over 1770s to the last 100 yearsRegency era. It is an American book and all He was also one of the references are to handbooksmost prolific, mediapainting nearly 5, popular fiction and advertising from the US, but as a secretary in Britain, I still found it relevant, interesting and very entertaining000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393338541</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Niall McCrae|title=The Moon and Madness|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=A book entitled ''The Moon and Madness'' has Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the potential to be a pile names of each of New Age hokum. This learned and academic treatise by Niall McCrae is very far from hokumhis clients, and there subsequently transcribed them into what is not a whiff of New Age hanging over it. We probably all have an old folklore image in our minds of lunatics in the asylum howling at the full moon. Of course, the very word 'lunatic' has its origins in the moon. McCrae tries referred to separate myth and fact in this fascinating as his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402146</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel Jones1789016304|title=TowerWar and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin
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|summary=If you had Melanie Martin read about what happened to name one particular artefact which personifies Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the history of Englandcity during the war years, it would but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be hard allowed to choose anything more appropriate than happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the building which has at various times been a castlecity were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, a palace, a prison, a torture chamber, and execution site, an armoury, and is now that the most visited tourist attraction Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the nationway that it did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936659</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Annelise Freisenbruch1908745819|title=The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the CaesarsSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie
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|summary=Perhaps the most shocking thing to be gleaned from Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this fascinating history of the women who surrounded the Caesars is how easily one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their reputations were createdword, or not, moulded and destroyed. Any woman who put a foot but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out of line in a culture where men held almost all the power could be accused of a litany of crimes which bore curious similarities with those of many another woman in similar circumstances. Incest and adultery were charges regularly levied against them, and the very fact that we didn't like the details were identical in almost every case should give rise to suspicion about their accuracy. And yet history has accepted and spread these scandals as factbook.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523930</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniel Allen Butler|title=The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic Was Lost|rating=4|genre=History|summary=ItThat's now almost a century since the loss of the ''Titanic'' and although much has been written about almost every aspect of that dreadful night one point has remained rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a mysterybook calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. When the wireless operator on The blurb speaks of the author considering 'unsinkable' Titanic radioed that the ship had hit an icebergolder, had too few lifeboats for all passengers and was sinking fast there were two ships in the vicinityless tethered sense of herself. Captain Arthur Rostron on the ''Carpathia'' responded to the distress signal and hastened to the Titanic Older. Less tethered. That's aidnot a bad description of where I am. But Captain Stanley Lord Add to that my love of the ''Californian'' did not respond. The ship's radio officer had retired for natural world, of those aspects of the night poetic and Lord failed to take decisive action later lyrical that night when told are about distress flares from the Titanic. The controversy as to why the two captains should have acted so differently has raged across the intervening years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1935149857</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=D R Thorpe|title=Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=The great-grandson of a crofterstyle not form, and son-in-law substance most of a Dukeall, about connection. Of course, Harold Macmillan this book had my name on it. It was born in London in 1894written for me. Despite the well-It would have found its way to-do aristocratic background, his years as a young adult were marked by bad experiences in the trenches which left him with lifelong war wounds, and his early service as a Conservative Member of Parliament by the plight of the unemployed in his first constituency of Stocktonme eventually. He had much in common with another future Prime Minister, Winston Churchill; both had American mothers, and both were mavericks who were elected as Conservatives but refused I am pleased to toe the party line too steadfastlyhave it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844135411</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Jenkins0857058320|title=A Short History of England Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)
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|summary=Most of us see history rather like ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a cloudjourney to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. WeCercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle're aware of s death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great mass of ituncle, seeing some parts more clearly than others, but perhaps struggling to bring it into a straight line. Some parts we will have studied at school, or read about out of interest but these parts will be balanced by other periods when we will be woefully ignorant of some of is the figure who looms large over the most basic factsbook. IHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco've studied the Tudors in some depth s forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at various points in my life – but I would struggle to tell you much about the Stuarts. What was needed was a concise history centre of England in one volume and written this book is whether it is possible for the adult reader who would simply like his great uncle to be more informed, but not over-burdeneda hero whilst having fought for the wrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684617</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bettany Hughes0008294011|title=How to Lose a Country: The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran
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|summary=As Wilson rightly points out, 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 is generally written by students when faced with the winners. This book turns question ''Discuss the tables by looking at ten of the worst episodes from the point of view of those who were on the losing side, from the sixth factors which led to the late twentieth centuries. ..'' Starting with the plague I agreed that she was right and war of 541-2 which accelerated the collapse of the Roman Empire, wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to the recent Rwandan genocide . I think now that I do know. We are in which the death toll over just danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a few months probably exceeded flawed system I can't think of a millionbetter one, history has had an uncomfortable habit of repeating itselfparticularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907595457</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger Moorhouse1788037812|title=Berlin at WarThe Fraternity of the Estranged: Life and Death The Fight for Homosexual Rights in Hitler's CapitalEngland, 19391891-451908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=4.5
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|summary=Berlin at War is an account Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the day to day lives margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the ordinary people of BerlinEuropean Continent, but barely talked about in the then capital of Nazi GermanyUK, during so the Second World War. Berlin was heavily bombed throughout much publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the warscientific understanding of homosexuality, and suffered greatly as beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the symbolic target milestone legalisation of Allied forces at the endsame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551896</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jacqueline Percival1910593508|title=Elbow Grease: How our Grandmothers Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Great-Grandmothers Kept HouseMike Collins|rating=3.5
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|summary=Sometimes I look at This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the housework that needs to be done passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and it seems like because of this, the authors take a mountain few narrative shortcuts knowing that has to be climbedwe can fill in the blanks. It's not until I look back at These shortcuts are the work that my mother, her mother and even my great grandmother had only downside to do to keep the house clean and free book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of pests as well as doing all a film you will be familiar with the laundry slight feeling that I realise that my problems there are more of a molehill scenes missing and a lot less strenuous than their daily grind ever wasthat dialogue has been trimmed. Jacqueline Percival has taken This is a look back at the way graphic novel that things really were for the women who went before us – could easily have been three times as long and in those days housework generally was down to the woman in the housestill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956559530</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Schwartz1786331047|title=A Serious EndeavourThe Race to Save the Romanovs: Gender, Education and Community at St HughThe Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's, 1886-2011|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary='A Serious Endeavour' is an account of the role of one Oxford college in the history of higher education for women. When it was first founded in 1886 there were very different views on what such education should be, even among its supporters. The university would not even grant female students degrees until 1920, and students were allowed to choose their own course of study and whether they would take formal exams or not before this. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668515X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewImperial Family|author=Elizabeth Cooke|title=The Damnation of John Donellan: A Mysterious Case of Death and Scandal in Georgian EnglandHelen Rappaport
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