11th century Italy. The domination of the Normans is causing trouble. At their head is the feared Ro..

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..

Jean Parris was a child when her adored father was taken away by the Nazis. As she and her mother wa..

French chef Sylvie was sent to Paris as part of the resistance while German soldier Christoph is doi..

Buckingham Palace 1951. The nation is on the road to recovery after World War Two. And so is Milly H..

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

Jersey 1943. Once a warm and neighbourly community now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets im..

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..

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

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

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

England 2001. Elizabeth has always suspected her mother harbours a secret from her time as a young w..

Flora Thompson was born in 1876 at Juniper Hill on the Oxfordshire/Northamptonshire border. She is b..