On the 16th of August 1945, exactly fifty years before I was born, a man in Japan called Takijirō Ōnishi killed himself. A day before the Emperor had declared over the radio that Japan must endure the unendurable and surrender. This was the first time the mass of his subjects had…
Maximilian von Habsburg (1459–1519) had an extraordinary number of lofty titles in…
When I was in Jordan, seeing my dad, we shot around the country looking at slices of the glorious…
As one of the most entertainingly named events in history, and the dramatic instigation of one of its most terrible wars, the Defenestration of Prague is comparatively well-known as 17th century murders not involving the English go. What is less familiar is that when…
