A forensic history of dying, death, and mourning in Victorian Britain by the acclaimed historian Judith Flanders, bestselling author of The Victorian House.

An ambitious, authoritative history of the Roman Catholic Church in the modern age.

The untold story of the writers and philosophers who took on the United States government for its war in Vietnam

A timely and controversial examination of thirty years of diplomatic misunderstandings, roads not taken and mutual suspicion that resulted in the terrible tragedy of Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine.

"The reader is requested to observe, that, though the plan of this work is entirely his own, the compiler of it does not put it forth as in any way original in respect to language or description. It is, in fact, a much better book, than if it had been what is strictly called original, (which, indeed, must have involved an utter impossibility:) for it is a selection of some of the best materials the British Museum could furnish; sometimes worked up in his own language; and sometimes—and, ind...

Op 19 januari 1942 werd het Nederlandse koopvaardijschip Van Imhoff voor de kust van Sumatra gebombardeerd door een Japans vliegtuig, waarna het in de golven verdween. Aan boord bevonden zich bijna vijfhonderd in Nederlands-Indie woonachtige Duitse mannen die aan het begin van de oorlog door de Nederlandse koloniale overheid waren geïnterneerd. De bewakers en de bemanning van de Van Imhoff brachten zichzelf in veiligheid, zonder zich te bekommeren om de in het ruim opgesloten Duitsers. 4...