History and politics

The Netherlands spans a history of Roman borders, Burgundian rule, the Dutch Revolt for independence, a Golden Age of trade and art, and 19th century industrialization. Written in English.

Google began as a Stanford research project and grew into the world's dominant search engine, reshaping how people find information, advertise, and communicate online. Written in English.

Ivan the Terrible, Romanov secrets, Stalin's gulags, Holodomor famine, KGB torture. Russia's darkest history across a thousand years.

Medusa's curse, Pandora's jar, Orpheus's doubt, Titans devouring children. Greek myths without sugarcoating, for younger readers and adults.

Reconquista land grab, Inquisition torture, Habsburg hyperinflation, Altamira cave myths. Spain's brutal history from prehistory to empire.

Turtle ships, Japanese occupation, comfort women, Gwangju massacre, 1987 uprisings. Korea's full history from myth to democracy.

From PayPal dropouts to Google's $1.65 billion gamble: copyright violations, algorithm wars, Adpocalypse, and creators who built YouTube.

Canaanites to Oslo Accords: Roman rule, Islamic conquest, Crusades, Ottoman centuries, British Mandate, 1948, and ongoing conflict.

Viking longships, Danish union, 1905 independence, Nazi occupation, heavy water sabotage, North Sea oil. Norway's remarkable history.

Lindisfarne raid, Vinland settlement, Varangian Guard, Norse cosmology, sunstone navigation. The real Vikings without Hollywood nonsense.

Operation Paperclip, SS occult programs, wonder weapons, Antarctic base theory. Separating Nazi myths from documented WWII history.

Ice Age tribes, Celts, Vikings, feudal kingdoms, colonialism, Enlightenment, world wars. The full, unvarnished history of European peoples.

Viking eastern trade routes, Kalmar Union, Swedish Empire, Great Northern War, neutrality, welfare state. Sweden's full history.

Olmec to Aztec, Spanish conquest, independence wars, French Intervention, 1910 Revolution. Mexico's layered history from pre-Columbian to present.

From founding myths to the fall of the Western Empire. Roman Republic, Punic Wars, Caesar, Augustus, barbarian migrations.

From Charlemagne to Louis XIV, Revolution to Napoleon, World Wars to Fifth Republic. The full history of France.

Inflatable tanks, bat bombs, Nazi meth pills, Soviet reindeer cavalry, wooden Paris. The strangest true stories of World War II.

Tin traders linked Cornwall to Mesopotamia, Indus sewage systems 4000 years ahead, Sea Peoples burned civilizations. The strange, connected Bronze Age.

Forgotten tank battles, secret Allied operations, Pacific island last stands, covert commando raids. WWII's hidden turning points.

Jomon to Heian, samurai rise, Tokugawa isolation, Meiji Restoration, WWII recovery. Japan's full history from ancient to modern.

Dong Son culture, Chinese domination, Tay Son Rebellion, French Indochina, Vietnam War, Doi Moi reforms. The resilient nation's full story.

10,000 years of Finnish history: shamans, Swedish crusades, Russian wars, folklore rebellion. Europe's stubborn underdog from ice age to 1809.

Hitler's own words from Mein Kampf and speeches. A first person retelling of his rise, war, and downfall based on historical records.

Constantine's capital, Justinian's conquests, Greek fire, Fourth Crusade, Ottoman siege. The thousand year empire that outlasted Rome.

Hittites, Byzantines, Ottomans, Ataturk. 4,000 years of Turkish history from ancient Anatolia to the modern republic.

Shaka Zulu's blood wars, Carthaginian child sacrifice, cursed pharaoh tombs, lost kingdoms. Africa's brutal 5,000 year history.

Odin's eye, Loki's schemes, Thor's giants, Ragnarok. Real Norse myths for teens, told in short punchy chapters without the Hollywood gloss.

Aztec sacrifices, Assyrian terror, Roman gladiators, Chinese mass killings. The brutal truths behind ancient civilizations' polished images.

Mummification, curse tablets, black magic, human sacrifice, animal worship. The dark and unsettling side of ancient Egyptian beliefs.

3,000 years of Italian history from Roman village to unification. Emperors, popes, Renaissance genius, Garibaldi's guerrillas.