Rome: Father Asser is waiting to die. His idealism has landed him in a papal prison on trumped-up ch..

Ancient Rome AD 37. The fate of a dynasty hangs in the balance. Into this fevered forum Agrippina gr..

July 1241. Christendom cowers in terror before the threat of a Mongol invasion. The swift-moving inv..

1937: Hitler sent an expedition to Tibet in search of the lost land of Thule. 1941: Himmler spent a ..

AD 61. Britannia is divided. The rebel horde has been defeated. But the leader Boudica and her remai..

AD 781. Pagan Saxony groans under the Christian yoke. The invincible armies of Karolus King of the F..

Post-Roman Britain. Thousands of desperate Saxon refugees are flooding the island fleeing their home..

With Europe temporarily at peace Napoleon Bonaparte has dispatched his victorious army with a vast f..