1096. The Pope has called for a crusade to free Jerusalem and half the warriors of Europe have respo..

Thanks to the stratagems of Bohemund de Hauteville leader of the Apulian Normans the Crusade has tak..

Berlin 1948. World War II has ended and there is supposed to be peace but Russian troops have closed..

London 1940. Ruth a young schoolteacher volunteers as an escort helping to evacuate children from wa..

New Zealand 1928. When Wilhelm Erdinger arrives in the sleepy village of Falters Mill claiming to wa..

1910. Halley's Comet is coming. Harry Houdini the most celebrated escape artist in the world has sol..

1944. Paul Brandt a German soldier returns wounded and ashamed from the chaos of the Eastern front t..

Power is shifting. Queen Elizabeth I is dying James waiting to become King. Everywhere there is oppo..

When young doctor Kit Stone returns to Britain a female associate of his brother Henry secures him a..

As the fragile negotiations of the international Peace Conference get underway typist Stella Rutherf..

Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of Maria von Trapp: a ..

May 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright sp..

At age 14 Princess Salome knows she will soon be ready for marriage - one that will satisfy the ambi..

London 1921 - Jean Buckman a young and innocent American heiress arrives in England to find a societ..

Western Australia 1909. William Watson's beloved father is set on an expedition to the north-west to..