Christopher Hale

As new crimes are committed, new laws must be written to punish them. When it comes to crimes committed by states like Putin’s Russia, who decides?

‘Real world’ German responses to postwar genocide.

Do leaders and leadership matter most at times of crisis?

The denizens of an Asian underground who waged a clandestine struggle against European colonial powers.

The consequences of the German aristocracy’s Faustian pact.

The origins of SS General Otto von Wächter’s rise to power.

Documenting the men and women who took a stand against the imperial tide.

The man who, at the time of his death in 2012, was arguably the most famous historian in the world is brought into quotidian focus.

A long and detailed challenge to the modern cult of memory.

The story of Indonesia’s anti-Communist coup, the rise to power of a pro-western regime and its murderous aftermath.