In 597, Wolf, a young Angle, travels from Rome to England, the land of his birth, accompanying Prior Augustine, later to be known as St. Augustine of Canterbury, on his mission to bring Christianity to English soil.
During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, ten-year-old Joris and his older brother Dirk Jan become involved in the resistance movement and, with the help of their parents, help conceal a British airman.
With eyewitness accounts and news stories, this is a detailed and revealing look at the stock market crash of 1929 and at the Great Depression which followed.
In 1171 twelve-year-old Hugh, burdened with a crippled leg since birth, is unhappy when his nobleman father, forced into exile in the bloody aftermath of King Henry's confrontation with Archbishop Thomas Becket, leaves him in the care of the monks of Glastonbury Abbey.
British airman Dym Ingleford recognizes young German prisoner Max Eckermann as his little brother Tony who was kidnapped over ten years ago at the age of eighteen months, and brings the boy home where his family members struggle to love the child who remains stubbornly devoted to Hitler and Germany.
