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...

De wereldgeschiedenis aan de hand van de 50 opmerkelijkste moorden

Ontdek de indrukwekkendste gebeurtenissen uit onze wereldgeschiedenis, verteld aan de hand van de 50 opmerkelijkste moorden. Van seriemoordenaars tot mysterieuze moorden: in dit boek toont Natasha Tidd aan hoe een enkele moord (of soms een grote slachtpartij) de loop van de geschiedenis kan veranderen.

Of het nu gaat om Liu Pengli, de prins uit de Han-dynastie die bekendstaat als een van de eerste seriemoordenaars; de Roemeens...