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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Bunker1785633457|title=An Empire on Charging Around: Exploring the EdgeEdges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson

|summary=The Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history that we are taught . One such is centred on events. Often we know the dates, scrubbing from the central characters and popular imagination of the outcome. We seldom identify and study early days of World War II from 1939-40, known as the causes. 'An Empire on the Edge' is history writ large Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, and looks at the chain of events leading Churchill coming in to save the Boston Tea Party, and subsequent American War of Independenceday. What emerges Very little time is a catalogue of human failings spent on this period in cultural reflections and frailties that shaped the destiny yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was of America and Britain vital significance in how the eighteenth century. Many of the failings were avoidable but the accumulation and chain reaction they caused had a catastrophic effect on thousands of lives and has shaped the character of two nations ever sincewar played out. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552736</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=3756228711|title=Tales of Loving and LeavingCDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Gaby WeinerHans Bodmer|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyHistory|summary=In ''Tales The history of Loving and Leavingthe development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. He has chosen to tell us about the short, but explosive, author Gaby Weiner tells history of the story of three of her family members: her grandmotherControl Data Company, CDC, Amalia Moszkowicz Dinger; her motherfor whom he worked. It's a fascinating tale, Steffi Dinger; told in a mixture of technological summary and her father, Uszer Frochtwry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524635081</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew LewisJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Henry III: The Son of Magna CartaFritz and Kurt|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary= For We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the 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 monarch whose reign over England light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of fifty-six years was unequalled until having a national vote to keep the nineteenth centuryNazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, Henry III remains curiously littleas did all the round-knownups of Jews. Nobody could claim that he was a particularly outstanding 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 successful rulerthe US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, but packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the fact that he held his throne stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for so long in an unstable age was no mean achievement in itself.the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445653575</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy LicenceJohn Henry Phillips|title=Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIII's True WifeThe Search

|summary=At Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a time fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic of the titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the US Presidential election search area is fielding at least a wide one candidate you'd cross , the road to avoid (target might not exist any more – oh, and I'm not saying which one) it's useful underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to look back over a particular D-Day veteran through helping the forty four presidents who have gone before them. Itheroic old man's surprising how many of them have been lawyersvisit back to France, soldiers and career politicians, but there have also been school teachers, journalists, Hollywood actors, professorsour author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, postmasters and even a peanut farmerthat he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. Gone are the early days when you could almost fall into the presidency accidentally - now you need The secondary aim is to erect a massive war chest if you're memorial to get everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises to election day.someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445656507</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth NortonB09F4CTKJR|title= The Lives of Tudor WomenFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|genre=HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary= After a series It's the later stages of individual biographies on World War I and the major Tudor women, mostly royal, this book brings a new dimension in touching on United States has just entered the lives of individuals from all walks of lifeconflict. However it Petrol Petronus is much more than a collection of livesyoung American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. While This company was the Queens and princesses naturally dominate some of the chaptersfirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, it looks beyond the surface first to devote attention be attached to serving maids, businesswomen, activists the RAF and martyrsthe first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, as well as focus on various aspects of life for women and girls in Tudor EnglandPetrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081752</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Matthews0578761718|title=Robin HoodThe Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver

|summary= The Outlaw church of Sherwood Forest has been part St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of national mythology ever since the twelfth centuryLondon from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Did Mr Hood really existSadly, or is he a figment of popular imagination who refuses to go quietly? If historians and researchers over the ages are to be believed, original church was destroyed in the truth seems to lie somewhere Great Fire of London in between1666.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656019</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lydia Ginzburg|title=Notes It was rebuilt in Portland stone from the Blockade|rating=5|genre=Autobiography |summary=With the scenes from war torn Syria brought to our screens every night, 'Notes from the blockade' is a timely book. It is design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the remarkable story of Lydia Ginzburg's survival during the 900-day siege of Leningrad during fire and then survived for centuries until World War 2. With beautiful prose full of Russian melancholy and pragmatismII, when it details daily life in was again ruined by bombs during the besieged cityBlitz. I have to confess But that I found this to be one of wasn't the most moving books that it has ever been my pleasure to read. Pleasure may be a strange choice end of words to describe its story: after a book recounting horrifying eventsphenomenal fundraising effort, but it came the stones from the lyrical quality of the writing. Ginzburgchurch's prose is simply beautifulwalls were transported to Fulton, Missouri. Her descriptions of There, in the minutiae grounds of everyday lifeWestminster College, the church was rebuilt and today serves as it descends into the abyss, are the most human I have encountered. It is this that leaves its mark long after the final page is turneda memorial to Winston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583380</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholas Stargardt1784385166|title=The German WarThird Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse

|summary=History can be a dry subject when it focusses only on events and What is the key people first image that shaped them. However, when it uses those events as the backdrop to the lives of ordinary people it truly comes to life. ‘The German War' is the story mind when you think of the second world war through the eyes Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of a diverse group these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of Germans. It tells their stories, with great candour and humanity, as it follows the build up to the war, the war itself and Third Reich's fascist regime in all its aftermathiniquity. Using detailed research, interviews But some objects and anecdotal evidence, Nicholas Stargardt has created a narrative images from that is both a historical record and compellingtime may be less familiar to you. Its scope is massive but it is a tremendous achievement. Books from the allies' perspective are many and varied; as a resultIn this short volume, this can lead Roger Moorhouse has attempted to a distortion illustrate the period of the historical record. This work addresses this imbalanceThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953987X</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teresa ColeLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= The Norman ConquestTiananmen 1989: William the Conqueror's Subjugation of EnglandOur Shattered Hopes

|genre=HistoryGraphic Novels|summary=Long regarded as I never really followed the most pivotal date events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in English historythe second half of their teens has other priorities, not least to generations you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of us familiar with protests and hunger strikes from the students before the 1930s Sellar massacre and Yeatman spoof history '1066 And All That', the year birth of the Norman Conquest has Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been seen as a relatively isolated event as well as venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a spit about the start of people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a new era general browser's context for our island story. The full picture was inevitably more complexthe whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445649225</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James Sharpe|title= A Fiery and Furious People: A History of Violence in England|rating= 4|genre= History |summary= From the tragic tale of Mary Clifford, whose death at the hands of her employer scandalised Georgian London, to Victorian Manchester's scuttling gangs, to a duel obsessed cavalier, author James Sharpe explores the brutal underside of our national life. As it considers the litany of assaults, murders and riots that pepper our history, it also traces the shifts that have taken place in the nature of violence and in people's attitudes to it. Why was it, for example, that wife-beating could at once be simultaneously legal and so frowned upon that persistent offenders might well end up ducking in the village pond? How could foot ball be regarded at one moment as a raucous pastime that should be banned, and next as a respectable sport that should be encouraged? Professor James Sharpe draws on an astonishingly wide range of material to paint vivid pictures of the nation's criminals and criminal system from medieval times to the present day. He gives a strong sense of what it was like to be caught up in a street brawl in medieval Oxford one minute, and a battle during the English Civil War the next. Looking at a country that has experienced not only constant aggression on an individual scale, but also the Peasants' Revolt, the Gordon Riots, the Poll Tax protests and the urban unrest of summer 2011, this book asks – are we becoming a gentler nation? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847945139</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jan Bondeson0648684806|title= Strange VictorianaClara Colby: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors|rating=4|genre=History|summary= The Victorians, not surprisingly, had their own tabloid press. The most successful title of this nature was the 'Illustrated Police News', a weekly journal first published in 1864 and lasting seventy-four years. Not to be confused with the more upmarket 'Illustrated London News', its main stock-in-trade was weird, far-fetched and not always entirely genuine stories from Victorian life, generally in Britain but sometimes in Europe as well. This book is based on a recently-discovered archive of the paper. Prepare to be amazed, enthralled, sometimes horrified – and occasionally disbelieving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445658852</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewInternational Suffragist|author= Anna Bikont|title= The Crime and the Silence|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= Where was your father? Where was your brother, your mother, your uncle? These are the questions Anna Bikont struggles to ask during her investigation into a shocking act of violence committed against the Jewish community in Jedwabne during the summer of 1941. The Crime and the Silence weaves together journals, interviews and pictures to share the story of a community torn apart by hatred and intolerance. It is also a moving testament to the dedication of Bikont, who documents her struggle to find the truth with grace and dignity in the face of silence, rationalisation, and even anger, from members of the Polish community who would rather not stir up the crimes of the past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592525</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Susan Higginbotham|title= Margaret Pole: The Countess in the TowerJohn Holliday

|summary= The fate path of Margaret PoleClara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who as the cover says has doted on her and saw that she received a good claim to education, both in and out of school. She was the title of 'only child in the last Plantagenet', household and her childhood was a sorry oneglorious. As a close relation By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of the Yorkists United States and the Tudors at a time of upheavallife was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her life was overshadowed by grandparents eventually went to join the executions of several of her family – and ultimately leading to . Clara would only know her ownmother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, largely it seemshad ten pregnancies, for seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the 'crime' of being who she eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin wasa rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445635941</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Doggett1783784350|title= Electric ShockThis Golden Fleece: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of PopA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter

|genre=EntertainmentHistory|summary= For many of usIt was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, it must be difficult writing to imagine a life without recorded musicpeople she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. Millions of us must have grown up with, The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to, be a very varied soundtrack consisting time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of one genre after another. In this bookthe British Isles with occasional forays abroad, Peter Doggett takes a marvellous broad sweep through discovering and telling the story of wool's history of popular music from and how it had made and changed the end of landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the nineteenth century farm'' - and learned to the present dayspin, knit and weave from wax cylinders to streaming services. A rather maudlin ditty 'After The Ballher mother and her mother', by Charles Ks friend. Harris, is regarded as the first modern popular song (well, it This was modern in 1891) – the first of millionsher blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184792218X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Rappaport1789017977|title=Caught in the RevolutionRonnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating=54

|summary= Few cities 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's birthdate: he claimed to have experienced been born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a year more dramatic than Petrograd in 1917few years off his age. The city, now known as St Petersburg, went through two revolutions: the first For a popular uprising that brought down while the Romanov dynasty, family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the second 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a Bolshevik coup that led to the formation of the Soviet Unionvery different lifestyle. At the time, Petrograd One thing he did inherit from his father was home his need to a large expatriate community, including diplomats, journalists, be well-turned-out and businessmenthis would stay with him throughout his life. Many kept diaries or wrote letters home, vividly describing He joined the chaos unfolding army at their doorstep. In Caught eighteen in the Revolution, Helen Rappaport draws on this material to give a gripping first-hand account of the Russian Revolution, as told by those who lived through it1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958954</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Melissa Mohr1980891117|title= Holy Sh*tG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A brief history of swearing |rating= 3.5|genre= History|summary= Holy Sh*t as the name suggests looks at both swearing, year in Biblical terms, to swearing, also usually in Biblical terms but with rather more emphasis on the act, rather than the deity. This book takes the reader on a journey from the Old Testament, when swearing your allegiance to the one true God was a prerequisite for staying alive, to the Middle Ages where swearing on the same God was punishable by rather grisly death. That takes care life of the Holy, now onto the part you are really interested in, the Sh*t. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>019049168X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGeorge Engleheart|author=Jenifer Roberts|title=The Beauty of Her Age: A Tale of Sex, Scandal and Money in Victorian EnglandJohn Webley

|genre=BiographyArt|summary= The name George Engleheart was one of Yolande Stephens (nee Duvernay) is not that well-known in the annals leading portrait miniaturists of Victorian EnglandGeorgian London, but behind it lies an enthralling rags-with a career lasting from the 1770s to-riches sagathe Regency era. How did a young girl born into poverty in Paris become He was also one of the most celebrated ballerinas prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of her that time in Englandhe carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, and after that one of the richest women in the country, with a fortune on her death which rivalled that of Queen Victoria?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445653206</amazonuk>subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon Stevens1789016304|title=The OriginalsWar and Love: The Secret History A family's testament of the Birth of the SASanguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin

|summary= Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''The SAS is a regiment shrouded in secrecyDiary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. Since its spectacular rise to fame A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the Iranian Embassy siege in 1978war years, it has become a part of myth but only five thousand survived and folklore. The paradox is that more words have probably been written about Martin could not understand how this organisation than any other military unit could be allowed to happen in the world. Some are well researched, and have a genuine historical perspective on the regiments operations and activitiescountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Others are pure fantasy, which add little, other than further Most people believed that the mystique of a regiment occupation could never happen: even those who thought that lives in the shadows. ''The Originals'' provides a fresh perspective. It tells Germans might reach the story of city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the birth of Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the SASway that it did, by but initial protests melted away as the people who were thereorganisers became more circumspect. In It's an atrocity on a series vast scale but made up of tens of long forgotten interviews, the regiment is brought to life with fresh insight and wonderful anecdotesthousands of individual tragedies. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091901820</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steven Gunn1908745819|title= Charles Brandon: Henry VIII's Closest FriendSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating= 3.5|genre= History|summary=Charles BrandonSometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, Duke of Suffolkthey tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, was almost unique in Tudor history in but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that he 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 a close friend and companion – in fact told why. The blurb speaks of the closest – author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of King Henry VIII throughout the latterherself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's reignnot a bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the natural world, never really fell out of favourthose aspects of the poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had the good fortune my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to die peacefully in his bed, just eighteen months before his notoriously capricious royal patronhave it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656345</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Sebag-Montefiore0857058320|title=Somme: Into Lord Of All the BreachDead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|summary=One-hundred years ago this month, on ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the 1st of July 1916, author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the most notorious battle meaning behind his great uncle's death in the history of the British army began at 07:20 with the detonation of a huge mine under the Hawthorn RedoubtSpanish Civil War. The Battle of the Somme had begunManuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, and by is the end of figure who looms large over the first day the British had suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, 20,000 of whom were killedbook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. Published to mark The question at the centenary centre of the battle, Somme: Into the Breach by historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a comprehensive account of hero whilst having fought for the conflict told primarily by the soldiers who fought in itwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918385</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Rex0008294011|title=William the ConquerorHow to Lose a Country: The Bastard of Normandy7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran

|genre=History |summary= The basic facts of William A little while ago a friend asked me if Ithought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''s life are inevitably as clouded as those surrounding the Norman conquest, Discuss the events and politics factors which led up to ...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it, and the aftermathwas a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. As Peter Rex makes clear We are in his introduction, any surviving sources are inevitably very incomplete. Moreover, danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can'the writing t think of a better one, particularly as the history of the eleventh century requires the historian to attempt to provide motives and explanations for events that are only sketchily described at best'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660172</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Hickley1788037812|title=The Munich Art HoardFraternity of the Estranged: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret LegacyThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=4.5

|summary=One of Originally passed in 1885, the most newsworthy events law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in modern art history happened seemingly 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 chancetwo homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. When tax police raided Exploring the house margins of an aged man in Munich it was because they assumed he had been moving too much money about society and paying no tax – this six months after he studying homosexuality was seen common on the train between Bavaria and Switzerland with 'nearly too much' cash. The investigators had no caseEuropean Continent, but he had something much more complex and rich barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – a massive legacy of 20th Century German and European art. But that collection had contributing to have an origin – one the scientific understanding of dubious and at times nefarious beginningshomosexuality, and one that could have quite a rich beginning the struggle for recognition and convoluted background. Hickleyequality, in these pages, gives us much in leading to the way milestone legalisation of context as well as ironing out those convolutions, so this story is both of interest to Nazi historians and art scholars – as well as to those larger numbers who just like a good story told wellsame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292574</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Scott1910593508|title=Ancient WorldsApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins

|summary= History can be perceived as This incredible graphic novel is a dusty academic backwaterlove letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. Often viewed as an irrelevance in our modern worldThis is a story we know well and because of this, as we race through the daily events of our lives. It is authors take a subject few narrative shortcuts knowing that has suffered greatly we can fill in our education system, where there has always been a tendency to teach the subject in isolation, blanks. These shortcuts are the only focussing on downside to the events that have shaped our own national identitybook. Michael ScottIf you's new ve ever read a comic book offers adaptation of a refreshing changefilm you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. ''Ancient Worlds'' This is thought provoking history for the general reader. Well researched and with a persuasive argument, he explores the interactions across graphic novel that could easily have been three differing cultures. Interactions that provide a new perspective on our modern worldtimes as long and still felt too short. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958814</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alexandra Harris1786331047|title= WeatherlandThe Race to Save the Romanovs: Writers and artists under English skies|rating= 4.5|genre= Reference|summary=The story of English culture over a thousand years can be told as Truth Behind the story of changing ideas about the weather. A sweeping panorama, ''Weatherland'Secret Plans to Rescue Russia' explores how writers and artists, looking up at the same skies and walking in the brisk air, have felt very different things. A journey through centuries and cultures, Harris walks the reader through misty moor and foggy fen, lays with them on bright sunlit beaches, treks with them to stormy summits, and introduces them to a fascinating cast of writers, artists and cultural figures along the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292655</amazonuk>}}{{newreviews Imperial Family|author= Jem Duducu|title= Forgotten History: Unbelievable Moments from the PastHelen Rappaport|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=The numerous highways, byways and tangents of basic facts about the chronicle deaths of our life on earth provide the raw rata for any number of alternative historiesNicholas and Alexandra, and in this book Jem Duducu has trawled magnificently through the ages from several centuries BC up to the present day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656345</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Martin Wall|title= The Anglo-Saxons in 100 Facts|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= As one some of which were deliberately obscured at the generation who was introduced to English history through the 'Kings and Queens' principletime for various reasons, and thoroughly enjoyed it, I have long since regarded the period between the Roman invasion and the Norman conquest as a bit of a blurbeen established. For me it is a rather murky area, punctuated by the likes last few months of Hengist their lives in Russia the former Tsar and HorsaTsarina, Alfred the Great their children and Ethelred the Unreadyfew remaining servants were held in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. To prevent them from being rescued, not to mention in July 1918 the Athelstans, Edgars, Egberts revolutionary regime had them all shot and others who are so often little more than names. In order wordsbayoneted to death in circumstances which, what exactly did they do? This admirable title brings it once the news was confirmed beyond all into focusdoubt, horrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656388</amazonuk>

So goes the description of the men, the ''ghosts,'' at the end of the first day of the Somme. July 1 2016 will mark 100 years since this most bloody of battles took place. It was supposed Move on to be the optimistic 'Big Push' that would end the Great War, but by sunset of the first day the British casualties numbered 57,470. The battle would rage until November that year, with the total number of casualties on all sides exceeding one million.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753555476</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Home and Family Reviews]]