When the unexpected happened, and the British were beaten by the Americans, van Goens, who as we have mentioned before considered himself half an Englishman ...

The inimitable style of Hendrik Willem van Loon, the renowned early-20th-century popularizer of all things historical, is at its best in this 1917 book ...

[W]ho is there that has studied the events of those years between 1795-1815 who did not feel the utter indignation, the terrible shame, of so much cowardice ...

Here, in simple, readable, lucid language—suitable for a child but delightful for adults, too—is the history of humanity from the first proto-humanoids ...

""The Fall of the Dutch Republic"" is a historical non-fiction book written by Hendrik Willem Van Loon. It is a detailed account of the decline and eventual ...