OUHS Book Reviews

By Christopher Eimer, Spink Books Hardback, £25.00. ISBN 9781912667 666. Available from www.spinkbooks.com Mehmet II was barely twenty-one years old when he conquered Constantinople in 1453 and ended the Eastern Roman Empire after 1123 years of existence. Feared and...

BIRMINGHAM AND THE BLACK COUNTRY (Pevsner Architectural Guides The Buildings of England) Andy Foster, Nikolaus Pevsner and Alexandra Wedgwood. Yale University Press, 2022, Hardback (£48) ISBN 978 0300 22391 0. In our study of history there are some landmark volumes...

THE END OF AMBITION: THE UNITED STATES AND THE THIRD WORLD IN THE VIETNAM ERA Mark Atwood Lawrence, Princeton University Press. £28.00 hardback. ISBN 9780691126401 According to a 2006 survey of geographic literacy conducted by National Geographic-Roper nearly half of...

IN HITLER’S MUNICH – JEWS, THE REVOLUTION, AND THE RISE OF NAZISM Michael Brenner, Princeton University Press. £28.00. ISBN 9780 691191034 This book started out with hope and ended with disaster. The main comment that should be made is that unless you know the...