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|genre=TravelAutobiography|summary= From initial worries about smuttyMary McCarthy describes herself as an ''amateur architect'', enclosed air with a pungent smell obsessively digging into the past to decades piece together the broken mosaic of human hair and engine grease causing escalator fires; from just a few lines connecting London termini her life. She attributes her ''burning interest in the past'' to major jaunts out into Metroher orphanhood, as she lacked any second-land for hand memories from her parents, who died in the suburbia-bound commuters; and from a few religious-minded if financially dodgy pioneer investment managers to Crossrail; 1918 flu epidemic. This memoir chronicles her early years, beginning with her orphanhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she lived under the history harsh guardianship of the worldher late father's most extensive underground system (even when a majority is actually above ground) is fascinating Irish Catholic parents and her abusive Uncle Myers and Aunt Margaret. Later, she moved to Seattle to many. This book is live with her maternal grandparents—her grandmother being Jewish and her grandfather Presbyterian—who provided her with a repository different kind of much that is entirely trivial, but is also pretty much thoroughly interestingupbringing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910821039</amazonuk>1804271659
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Holland1785633457|title=Railways (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=35
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|summary=How and when did Laurel and Hardy replace the Duke Clive Wilkinson has a history of York (George VI)? They reopened the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway when peacetime resumed, at whose launch the latter had officiated before the Wartravelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. What's As he neared his eightieth birthday the worst that can happen when you travel internationally and arrive on a London goods train with no further destination documents? Well, if you're an unidentifiable Peruvian mummy you can get buried as an unknown corpse before idea of exploring the invoice turns up to prove you were wanted edges of England in Belgiuman electric car was not totally outrageous. After so many miles and so much dramaIn fact, it's no surprise odd facts should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and fun trivia derive from our countryhis wife, Joan, shouldn's trains. This book is designed to be an ideal source of quick articles and fun mini-essays for use in the smallest room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821004</amazonuk>t it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paddy HayesB09BLBP3P8|title= Queen of SpiesNeville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= Paddy Hayes has created an extensive account Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the life and career early days of an extraordinary female spyWorld War II from 1939-40, known as the ''Phoney War''. Daphne Park has faced sexismWe remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, brutality and betrayal. She has bravely stood against terrorwar breaking out, charmed diplomats and navigated her way through Churchill coming in to save the then alien Soviet Russiaday. Hers Very little time is an incredible lifespent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, one that brings as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was of vital significance in how the nail-biting and seat teetering that we expect from a spy storywar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650432</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanne Parker3756228711|title=Britannia ObscuraCDC: Mapping BritainThe happy years with a spectacular IT 's Hidden LandscapesPhenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer
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|summary=What shape do you assume Britain to be? If you merely go by the current map, you're holding yourself ransom by the secessionists wanting devolution, and changes to the boundaries within Britain, but doesn't the place go beyond that outline on the page? Remember, it used to be connected to mainland Europe, and once we'd sort-of-settled into one kingdom on our shores [[Divorced, Beheaded, Died...: The History history of Britain's Kings and Queens in Bite-Sized Chunks by Kevin Flude|the people in charge]] were also ruling over parts development of IT could fill books of Franceseveral hundred pages. And of course – the two-dimensional plan of the British Isles '' Author Hans Bodmer is nowhere near quite right about that. He has chosen to tell us about the real storyshort, for we have many coastal watersbut explosive, we have airspacehistory of the Control Data Company, and we have a large subterranean territory. You can definitely throw away the imagined space of BritainCDC, for the reality is far granderwhom he worked.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700002</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Suzannah Lipscomb|title= The King is Dead|rating= 5|genre= History|summary= Shortly before his death in January 1547, King Henry VIIIIt's last will and testament was reada fascinating tale, stamped and sealed. It has remained one of the most intriguing and contested documents told in British history. This book examines it from every angle, and analyses the background against the last days a mixture of the King's life technological summary and the events which followedwry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081922</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ian MortimerJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title= Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on EarthFritz and Kurt
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|genre= HistoryConfident Readers|summary= We are an astonishing species. Over start with the past millennium pair of plagues brothers Fritz and explorationKurt, revolution and scientific discoverytheir muckers, womendoing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to 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 is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's rights will, and technological advancesinstead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, human society has changed beyond recognitioninvite them in with open arms. Best known for his ''Time TravellerKristallnacht's Guide'' history bookshappened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, Ian Mortimer here gives as did all the reader a whistleround-stop tour through ten centuriesups of Jews. ''Human Race'' contains These in their turn leave the lunar leaps younger Kurt at home with his mother and lightbulb moments thatsisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, for better or worsewhile Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, have sent humanity swerving down a path that no-one could have predictedpacked off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. The question here is which of And us wondering how the last ten centuries saw titular event for the greatest change in human history?adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593386</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Catherine HewittJohn Henry Phillips|title= The Mistress of ParisSearch|rating= 45|genre= BiographyHistory|summary= Born into povertyArchaeology cannot be child's play, no-one could have guessed that when you're scraping in the girl who would one day dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be known as Valtesse de la Bigne would have achieved greatnessa fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of the tale latter, as our author promises to locate the topic of her rise to wealth and power the titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – starting in the search area is a dress shop as a thirteen year oldwide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, but fast becoming when he cannot dive. Latching on to a courtesan who would be fought over by some of particular D-Day veteran through helping the greatest men of her time. A woman who kept an air of mystery about many details of her lifeheroic old man's visit back to France, Catherine Hewitt nevertheless paints an incredible story around our author has promised to find the gapslanding craft that delivered him to Normandy, and this proves that he was lucky to be both survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a full and intriguing biographymemorial to everyone else aboard, and a fascinating portrait the vast majority of the time periodwhom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848319266</amazonuk>1472146182
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary BeardB09F4CTKJR|title= SPQR A History of Ancient RomeFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryHistorical Fiction|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 BeardIt's new examination the later stages of Roman history is how far she goes to see all sides World War I and all possible explanations of events. For example, were the emperors Nero and Caligula mad or simply United States has just entered 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 conflict. Petrol Petronus is a book that explodes some of young American who has signed up and joined the myths and presents alternative answers17 Aero Squadron. Mary Beard analyses This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the evidence first to shed new light on how a small community grew be attached to become an empire. Military force was important, but other threads in the weave (such as social mobility RAF and the effect of extending citizenship first to many of be sent into the conquered) made skies to fight the Roman experience uniqueGermans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683807</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0578761718|title=The Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Despina StratigakosNancy Carver|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a 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 end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported to Fulton, Missouri. There, in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784385166|title=Hitler at HomeThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse
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|summary=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 concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Third Reich''Please do not make Hitler look goods fascist regime in all its iniquity.'' Words But some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to live by that the author of you. In this short volume received from her mother, a Kefalonian who knew Nazi abuse when she saw itRoger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the period of the Third Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts. Rest assured that the book does not do that }}{{Frontpage|author=Lun Zhang, but it certainly provides a much fresherAdrien Gombeaud, more eloquent Ameziane and interesting look at certain aspects Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I never really followed the events of his life, and introduces us to Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone else from in the Nazi times – Gerdy Troostsecond half of their teens has other priorities, who might as well be summarised as Hitler's interior designeryou know. In picking apart the entire life I certainly didn't know of Troost, the nature weeks of her work protests and how hunger strikes from the students before the buildings massacre and décor she surrounded Hitler in became a part the birth of his propagandathe Tank Man image, we get I didn't know how the area had long been a refreshingly new yet authoritative book, that venue for those with an interest in this side of our recent history will easily be considered one ofpolitical protest, if not and I didn't know more than a spit about the, best book of the yearpeople involved on either side. The person who does come out with This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the laurels worn highest is our authorwhole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>030018381X</amazonuk>1684056993
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elizabeth Norton0648684806|title= Clara Colby: The Temptation Of Elizabeth TudorInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Life, or rather survival, in Tudor England The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was a precarious businessprobably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. Being close to At the crown time she was anything just three-years-old but a guarantee because of safetysome childhood ailment, as the fate of two of King Henry VIIIshe wasn's Queen's amply demonstratedt allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. His second daughter Elizabeth led Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a charmed good education, both in and out of school. She was the only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of the United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went on to reign as Queen join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for over forty fifteen years, but she too had some narrow escapes when her liberty if ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not her very existence long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was under threata rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081728</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Maloney1783784350|title=Life Below StairsThis Golden Fleece: True Lives of Edwardian ServantsA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter
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|summary=Life It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in Edwardian times is currently a popular subjecther office job, thanks in no small part writing to people she''d never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided thatshe would travel the length and breadth of 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' period drama currently showing its final series d grown up on ITV. a sheep farm in Suffolk - ''Life Below Stairsa free-range child on the farm'' examines the subject in greater detail- and learned to spin, looking at documents knit and memoirs weave from the time to discover what life was really like for those in service. We learn about the strict hierarchy in the household her mother and the duties expected of each individualher mother's friend. We see how much each member of staff This was paid and how workers were hired (and in many cases, fired) from their positionsher blood. Welcome to a slice of Edwardian life, served up with a delicious mix of period illustrations and newspaper clippings|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434356</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lucy Adlington1789017977|title= Stitches in TimeRonnie and Hilda's Romance: The Story of the Clothes We Wear Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams
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|genre= History|summary=Ronnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry'Stitches s birthdate: he claimed to have been born in Time'' is 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a lively history of clothingfew years off his age. Riffling through For a while the wardrobes of years gone by, costume historian Lucy Adlington reveals the stories underneath the clothes we wear family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in this tour of the history of fashion, ranging from ancient times 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to the present day. With beautiful illustrations and full colour photographs, ''Stitches in Time'' is a reminder of how the way we dress is inextricably bound up with considerations of aesthetics, sex, gender, class and very different lifestyle – and offers the reader the chance . One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to appreciate the extraordinary qualities of the clothing we wear, be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the rich history it has ledarmy at eighteen in 1942. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947263</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jeffrey James1980891117|title= Edward IVG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: Glorious Son A year in the life of YorkGeorge Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryArt|summary= Medieval England's own game of thrones, The Wars of the Roses, George Engleheart was at the centre of a turbulent age. In retrospect much one of the history leading portrait miniaturists of medieval EnglandGeorgian London, between with a career lasting from the Norman conquest and 1770s to the advent Regency era. He was also one of the Tudorsmost prolific, seems to have been a chronicle painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of instability often verging on and sometimes erupting into rebellion or civil warKing George III). The fifteenth-century conflicts between Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the houses names 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 each of fortune for the two rival familieshis clients, both descended from King Edward III. The rise, fall and rise again of King Edward IV was a constant theme of the warssubsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445646218</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dan Jones1789016304|title= Realm DividedWar and Love: A Year family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in the Life of Plantagenet Englandoccupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= 1215 has gone down Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in history as the year of Magna Cartaoccupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, the result particularly in ''The Diary of King JohnAnn Frank'' but then realised that her own family's increasingly discontented barons attempts to exert control over their wayward stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, but only five thousand survived and stubborn monarch. John had succeeded Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to the throne of England happen in 1199, at the end of an often turbulent centurya country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. His father, Henry II, had succeeded in restoring Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the authority of Germans might reach the crown after almost twenty years of civil war between city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the supporters of two rival claimants Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the kingdomway that it did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. He had inherited It's an atrocity on a challenging set on both sides vast scale but made up of the Channel, and within four years had been driven out tens of most thousands of the French ones, notably the duchy of Normandy. Posterity would bestow on him the unflattering nicknames 'John Softsword' and later 'John Lackland'individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith Jeffery1908745819|title=1916: A Global HistorySurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=1916 Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, 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 that we didn't like the book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a pivotal year in modern historybad description of where I am. It witnessed Add to that my love of the Easter Rising in Dublinnatural world, of those aspects of the battles of Verdun poetic and the Sommelyrical that are about style not form, and the election substance most of Woodrow Wilson as American Presidentall, about connection. TheseOf course, and several other events described in this book in detail, were later seen as crucial staging points in the course of the First World Warhad my name on it. 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>1408834308</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gary Cox0857058320|title= Deep Thought: 42 Fantastic Quotes that Define Philosophy Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= Who really knows what ''Cogito ergo sumLord Of All the Dead'' means? Yes, you may know that Descartes said it, and that it translates as is a journey to uncover the author'I think, therefore I ams lost ancestor', but what was it the French philosopher was trying to say about human existence when he said this most quotable s life and definitive phrase? And, death. Cercas is searching for that matter, the meaning behind his great uncle''where'' did he say it? Was it s death in the seventeenth century or Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is the eighteenth? If these are figure who looms large over the sort of book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question that keep you awake at night, then Gary Cox's ''Deep Thought: 42 Fantastic Quotes that Define Philosophy'' will the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a welcome addition to your libraryhero whilst having fought for the wrong side. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472567269</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Flude0008294011|title=Divorced, Beheaded, Died...How to Lose a Country: The History of Britain's Kings and Queens in Bite-Sized Chunks7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran
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|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>
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{{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>
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{{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
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|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>
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{{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
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|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>
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