Mountains Clad in Green

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there...

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

When Naomi, a young refugee from Nazi-occupied Paris, moves into Alan Silverman’s building in New York, he does his best to avoid her. But...

A group of American pilots from Alaska ferry Airacobra fighter planes across the ocean on Lend-lease. The orderly course of life is disrupted when it...

The background to, events of and consequences of the Battle of Mers-El-Kebir on 3 July 1940. In that battle, Royal Navy ships fired on the French...

In an authoritarian dystopia where silence is law, Eris discovers a secret resistance keeping expression alive. But her brother, a relentless law...

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to...

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath it. Hunger marches organised by the National...

German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to...