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1.		The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World from Allen Lane Price: £12.49 Customer Review: The title of this book makes quite a claim. Niall Ferguson is a Harvard University professor from the UK, who produced a volume on the story of the Rothschild financial dynasty in the late 1990s, The book certainly has a number of interesting features e.g. its summary of recent events both... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		A History of Modern Britain from Pan Books Price: £3.55 Customer Review: This is an interesting and readable history of our country since the Second World War marred (pun intended) by a liberal/left-wing bias. Andrew Marr deals with a number of topics and this book is neither political nor social history but contains bits of each and more. Much of the book is a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		Things Ain't What They Used to be from Sphere Price: £8.99 Customer Review: Very enjoyable book, easy to pick up during your lunch breaks, allowing you to look at the 70's in rose tinted glasses. As someone born in '69 I could relate to most of the things in the book, but I do wish that they included Photos. This would have made a good book, fantastic. From clothing,... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		The Great Crash, 1929 (Penguin business) from Penguin Price: £6.99 Customer Review: John Kenneth Galbraith's classic study of the 1929 Wall Street crash is an exhilarating read. Galbraith combines a fluent, witty style with a detailed breakdown of the build up to disaster, It is interesting to note how most of the experts - journalists, academics, businessmen, bankers and... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Tommy's War: A First World War Diary 1913-1918 from HarperPress Price: £9.99 Customer Review: I don't usually read diaries but this caught my eye and I decided to give it a go as I generally read war books. From page one it became a treasure trove of snippets from a bygone era. How a family strove to make ends meet through severe hardship during ww1. Thomas makes light of it all with wit,... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 (Tales of a New Jerusalem) from Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Price: £5.99 Customer Review: No-one could fault the time and effort that have gone into producing this extensive work but the sheer volume of facts, figures and comments might well prove mind-numbing to the average reader and certainly led to me - who can just remember the period in question - losing interest and scanning... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		I Never Knew That About England from Ebury Press Price: £6.89 Customer Review: Along with G Meehan I find the errors irritating having found two more in the first 24 pages. One is often repeated and may be considered trivial by many - the line from Gray's Elegy (page 18) The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, True, several websites print this version but... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		I Never Knew That About England from Ebury Press Price: £12.00 Customer Review: Along with G Meehan I find the errors irritating having found two more in the first 24 pages. One is often repeated and may be considered trivial by many - the line from Gray's Elegy (page 18) The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, True, several websites print this version but... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy from Little, Brown Price: £14.00 Customer Review: If you read only one book of history this year that commemorates the 250th anniversary of the birth of Nelson, read Jack Tar. During the Great War (1793-1815), the Royal Navy was the backbone of the defence of the British Isles and took a major part in the final victory. Just as the... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		London: The Biography from Vintage Price: £7.49 Customer Review: As a life long Londoner and a person well read in history this book was just up my street. It was a well written book packed with all sorts of fascinating details. For the most part I enjoyed reading it although it could occasionally be long winded and tedious.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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