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[[Category:New Reviews__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|author=Edward W Said|title=Representations of the Intellectual |rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Edward Said's ''Representations of the Intellectual'' is less a strict theory of what intellectuals are and more a passionate argument for what they should be. Said clearly rejects the comfortable image of the intellectual as a detached expert speaking only to other specialists. Instead, he insists on the intellectual as a public figure, often awkward, abrasive, and unpopular, who speaks truth to power even when it is inconvenient or risky.|isbn=1804272248}}{{Frontpage|author=Jacqueline Rose|title=Women in Dark Times|rating=4|History]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->genre=Biography|summary=''The world of the unconscious is not the antagonist of political life, but its steadfast companion, the hidden place or backdrop where any true revolution must begin…''

{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Woolf -->|-Women in Dark Times is Jacqueline Rose's homage to courageous women throughout history, particularly women of the 21st, 20th and 19th centuries. Her historical and political backdrop is, thus, expansive, yet she navigates it with intelligence and an acknowledgment that feminism's lengthy mission is a testament to its successes, and not its failures: ''the ongoing force of feminism''.| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1804271713[[image:Woolf_Great.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985880?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985880]]}}

| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf]]=== [[image:3Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]]He has chosen to tell us about the short, but explosive, [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set history of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave peopleControl Data Company, CDC, for whom he worked. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many It's a fascinating tale, told in a mixture of the mysteries of the wildest parts of our world, technological summary and also given us an understanding of what it is like to be faced with the most terrible conditions wry anecdote. }}{{Frontpage|author=Jeremy Dronfield and still have the determination David Ziggy Greene|title=Fritz and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as a taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some Kurt|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start with the pair of the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible brothers Fritz and Woolf does them justice. [[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf|Full Review]] <!-- Hailstone -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hailstone_BerlinKurt, and their muckers, doing 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.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Berlin in Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone]]=== [[image:4starSabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] invite them in with open arms. ''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966Kristallnacht'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone happened in his visits to Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the city during this periodround-ups of Jews. The images provide an insight into These in their turn leave the changing nature of the divide between East younger Kurt at home with his mother and West Berlin sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and a glimpse into life in his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the city during same train to Buchenwald and the Cold Warstone quarry there. [[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|Full Review]]isbn=024156574X}}<!-- Moorehead -->{{Frontpage|-author=John Henry Phillips| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Search|rating=5[[image:Moorehead_Russian.jpg|left|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445667320?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445667320]] History| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The author was writing from a slightly different stance from most other historiansArchaeology 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. Only Archaeology must be a decade after the end fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of the Second World Warlatter, he was basing his account on as our author promises to locate the premise that topic of the Nazistitular search. And he really hasn' rise to power in Germany was connected with t made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the heritage that Lenin had left behindtarget might not exist any more – oh, and that without Stalinit's assurances of support Hitler would never have dared underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to plunge a particular D-Day veteran through helping the world into such a devastating global conflict. It was his belief that Americaheroic old man's post-war commitments in Europe and visit back to France, our author has promised to find the Far Eastlanding craft that delivered him to Normandy, and other post-1945 developments, could also be traced back that he was lucky to the events of 1917survive when it sank from beneath him. Much of his material came from German archives which were saved from destruction when the Third Reich was on The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the brink vast majority of collapsewhom perished. These documents that the German government Who else would have kept private had they won the war provided full detail on the attempts of their forebears make such promises to pave the way for chaos and revolution someone in their Asiatic neighbour.[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Mooreheadnineties?|Full Review]]isbn=1472146182}}<!-- Mourby -->{{Frontpage|-isbn= B09F4CTKJR| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer[[image:Mourby_Rooms.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782754?ie5|genre=UTF8&tagHistorical Fiction|summary=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782754]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life It's the later stages of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]=== [[image:4starWorld 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, [[:Category:History|History]] Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit the first to be attached to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with RAF and the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps first to be sent into the skies to give something of an overall picturefight the Germans in active combat. So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel But before that can happen, Petrol has to call itself 'grand' was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in master flying the beginning notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0578761718|title=The Inspiring History of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearbySpecial Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating=4. 5|genre=History|summary=The hotels we visit all began life church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in different circumstances and each faced a different set the City of challengesLondon from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. We begin Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the Americas, move to Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia fire and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australiasurvived for centuries until World War II, when it seems, does not go for was again ruined by bombs during the grandBlitz. [[Rooms with But that wasn't the end of its story: after a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby|Full Review]]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.}}<!-- Anderson -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1784385166| styletitle="widthThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse[[image:Anderson_Fantasyland.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785038656?ieHistory|summary=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? 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[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]]<br> <br> <!-- Way --> }}{{Frontpage|-author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)| styletitle="widthTiananmen 1989: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Our Shattered Hopes|[[image:Way_Tea.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Graphic Novels|summary===[[Tea Gardens (BritainI 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 other priorities, you know. I certainly didn's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[t know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:History|History]] Tea Gardens really began in London in I didn't know how the late 18th century: area had long been a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a trip to spit about the country in those dayspeople involved on either side. Men had their coffee houses, but they were not places where women could or would be seen. Tea was introduced to England This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the 17th century but it was not until 1784 that the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea became the drink whole season of choice for the nationprotests back in 1989. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardens. [[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way|isbn=1684056993}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]]isbn=0648684806 <!-- Stewart -->|title=Clara Colby: The International Suffragist|-author=John Holliday| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4|genre=Biography[[image:Stewart_Marches.jpg|left|linksummary=https://www.amazon.coThe path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA.uk/gp/product/0099581892?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag At the time she was just three-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099581892]]  | style="verticalyears-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Marches by Rory Stewart]]=== [[image:5starold but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Instead, [[:Category:History|History]] The Observer quote she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of school. She was the front of only child in the paperback edition of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finesthousehold and her childhood was glorious.'' Perhaps By contrast, but to call it travel writing is to totally underher family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-sell it. This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has west of the background to do this: he had an international upbringing United States and followed his father in both the Army and the Foreign Officelife was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and then (her grandparents eventually went to his father'sjoin the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Ohhad ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan died in 2002childbirth not long after Clara arrived. A walk along As the Scottish borders should be eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a doddle by comparisonrude awakening. [[The Marches by Rory Stewart|Full Review]] <!-- Parker -->}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=1783784350| styletitle="widthThis Golden Fleece: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|[[image:Parker_50.jpgauthor=Esther Rutter|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784937908?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784937908]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"History|summary===[[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker]]=== [[image:4It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets.5star The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of wool's Non-Fiction|Childrenhistory and how it had made and changed the landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the farm''s Non-Fiction]]and learned to spin, [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:History|History]] The Vikings have got a lot to own up toknit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. A huge DNA study This was in 2014 was the first thing that proved to the Orkney residents that they had Viking her blood in their veins – they had been insisting it was that of the Irish. The Vikings it was that forced our English king.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789017977|title=Ronnie and Hilda's army to march from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasion, only to spend Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Ronnie Williams was the next fortnight schlepping back to Hastings to try son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and fend off another – and the Normans had the same Norse origin as the first lot, hence the nameEthel Wall. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from the coast – that has a Viking longship on its signpost. Yes, they got 's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to a lot of placeshave been born in 1863, from Greenland to Kiev, from Murmansk to Turkey but he was already many years older than Ethel and the Med, and their misaligned history is he might well worth visiting – particularly on these pageshave shaved a few years off his age. [[50 Things You Should Know About For a while the Vikings by Philip Parker|Full Review]] <!family was quite well-to- Maconie do but disaster struck in the 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-| style="width: 10%; verticalturned-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:MACONIE_lONGout and this would stay with him throughout his life.jpg|link=http://www.amazon He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.co.uk/dp/1785030531/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1980891117|title=G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating=4.5|genre=[[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie]]===Art[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about with a year ago and career lasting from the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's column1770s to the Regency era. His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Let's be honestHe was also one of the most prolific, thoughpainting nearly 5, I picked this one up because 000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the names of each of someone else's reviewhis clients, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffesubsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book. Places I grew up }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789016304|title=War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know of) occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Melanie Martin read about what happened to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''a whole matrix The Diary of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or OrgreaveAnn Frank'' but then somehow it does become part of my history toorealised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. TangentiallyA hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, at least. [[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie|Full Review]] <!-- Kay -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-alignbut only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kay Vintage.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445657511?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445657511]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1908745819|title=Surfacing|author=[[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay]]===Kathleen Jamie [[image:3.5star.jpg|linkrating=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery5|Cookery]]genre=History Over the half century and more |summary=Sometimes when people suggest that I've been preparing meals you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on a regular basis Iit''ve seen food preparation move from being just something you did, to an obsession akin to a religion. My first kitchen had nothing in the way of luxury - it was there to make meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is Mostly we take them at their word, or not quite state of the art, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless itturns out that we didn't like the book. That's equipped a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a high standard and is a pleasure to work inbook calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. But what The blurb speaks of all the equipment which went beforeauthor considering ''an older, which paved the way to what we have now? Emma Kay is going to give you less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a quick trip through the historybad description of where I am. [[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay|Full Review]] <!-- Rutherford -->|-| Add to that my love of the natural world, of those aspects of the poetic and lyrical that are about style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rutherford_Landscapenot form, and substance most of all, about connection.jpg|left|link=https://wwwOf course, this book had my name on it.amazon It was written for me.coIt would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.uk/gp/product/1445669935?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445669935]]}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"0857058320|title=Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating=4|genre=[[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford]]===History [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]] My first experience of ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor'big'' garden was Versailles as a teenager s life and whilst I was impresseddeath. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, I didnCercas't really like it. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the flatness of it allbook. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardensHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. It would be many years before I revised my opinionCercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. On a trip to Harewood House The question at the centre of this book is whether it was too hot a day is possible for his great uncle to be corralled into a hero whilst having fought for the house, so I wandered the gardens and found they were delightfulwrong side. I felt uplifted. Then }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008294011|title=How to Lose a cricket match at Stowe gave me the opportunity Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to walk the grounds for over an hourDictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating=4. I was completely won over and a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him in context. [[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford5|Full Review]]genre=History <!-- Hayward -->|-| style|summary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hayward New.jpg|left|link=https://wwwA little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1442279419?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1442279419]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook by Vicky Hayward]]=== [[image:4star I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] In 1745 a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition We are in danger of his losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can'New Art t think of Cookerya better one, Drawn From particularly as the School of Economic Experience'benevolent dictator'is as rare as hen's teeth. It contained more than two hundred recipes }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for meatHomosexual Rights in England, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Originally passed in 1885, vegetables and dessertsthe law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. The style was informalBut during this time, chatty and humorous restrictions on occasions same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and it was aimed1908, not at those who could afford to cook three books on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbersthe nature of homosexuality appeared. Whilst the ingredients They were - for written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the careful combination margins of flavours and aromas. Spices are used conservatively society and studying homosexuality was common on the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed European Continent, but barely talked about in favour the UK, so the publications of something much more subtle these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and we see influences from Altamiras' own region, Aragon, beginning the Iberian court struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the New Worldmilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. [[Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook by Vicky Hayward|Full Review]]}}{{Frontpage<!-- MATYSZAK -->|isbn=1910593508|-title=Apollo| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=5[[image:Matysak_24.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782438564/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] History| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[24 Hours in Ancient Rome This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Philip Matyszak]]=== [[image:4Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins.5starThis is a story we know well and because of this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] IThese shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you've never been ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that interested in Ancient Rome. Blame my teachers, or our oh-so-dry visits to Roman villas with their earnest interpretation panels, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all the interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with the impression there are scenes missing and that all Romans were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend themdialogue has been trimmed. ''Mea culpa'', you might say. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours in Ancient Rome'', This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and its claim to introduce readers to the real Ancient Rome by examining the lives of ordinary people, I decided it was high time to update my education. And the lovely artwork on the front cover made this book all the more appealing. [[24 Hours in Ancient Rome by Philip Matyszak|Full Review]] <!-- Connolly -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Connolly_Heroines.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445662647/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Heroines of the Medieval World by Sharon Bennett Connolly]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] Many women in medieval times left their mark on history, but as a rule they have been neglected by biographers and historians as there is too little surviving information for them to have even brief biographies to themselves. Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution to the problem by writing a general account on a broadly thematic basis. [[Heroines of the Medieval World by Sharon Bennett Connolly|Full Review]] <!-- Amin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Amin_House.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445647648/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown by Nathen Amin]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The family name of Beaufort played a major part in British history during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It therefore seems remarkable that little has been written about them until this present volume. [[The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown by Nathen Amin|Full Review]] <!-- Dean -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dean_K129.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445674742/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in History by Josh Dean]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] In February 1968 the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left the port of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula with a crew of 98 submariners. The captain and executive officers were experienced: the only factor giving cause for concern was that the crew had only recently returned to base and were expecting a longer break and were only back at sea because two sister ships had experienced mechanical problems and were unfit for combat patrols. The Division Commander complained that the decision was cruel and potentially reckless. He would be proved right - but not publicly - as K-129 went down with all hands in March 1968. It was a while before the Soviet navy realised that it had lost one of its submarines and despite an extensive search they couldn't find it. [[The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in History by Josh Dean|Full Review]] <!-- Beardsley -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Beardsley_Waterloo.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445660164/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First Hand by Martyn Beardsley]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The battle of Waterloo, fought on a midsummer day on a muddy field in Belgium, brought an end to two decades of war in Europe. As one of the pivotal events of the nineteenth century, it has inevitably been the focus of many accounts over the last two hundred years. [[Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First Hand by Martyn Beardsley|Full Review]] <!-- Duxbury-Neumann -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Neumann_What.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445664860/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great Britain by Susan Duxbury-Neumann]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some time to provide a full answer, and this slim but useful volume does so very well. 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|summary=In The basic facts about the week I write thisdeaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, Trump has come under fire for not condemning fascistic behaviour in America from some Neo-Nazis. It strikes me that of which were deliberately obscured at the ''Neo-'' is a pointless dignification – yestime for various reasons, they cannot be deemed to follow Hitler precisely as he's have long dead and burnt, so they're kind of new, but common sense obliges me to just call them Nazissince been established. Their excuse is they feel America has been invaded by For the enemy – but what if you were indeed under occupation? Could you see yourself working for last few months of their lives in Russia the forces that had indeed invaded you? The author begins by pointing out that several countries were invaded by the Nazisformer Tsar and Tsarina, their children and they have different feelings about the people who worked against the commonly-few remaining servants were held nationalistic aimin increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. France hates her collaboratorsTo prevent them from being rescued, but just north of in July 1918 the border things are different – revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to death in circumstances which, once the picture is a lot more muddy as a resultnews was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>