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As the Great War begins in Europe, a lonely and troubled schoolgirl writes a fairy tale about a lady imprisoned in a grey tower and a questing knight who tries to set her free. A young officer sees it and finds himself haunted by it - increasingly so as the war he enlisted for with a degree of well-educated idealism becomes less and less like any familiar reality. Between the two of them lies No Man's Land - and more battlefields than just the...

In late Victorian Oxford, two mismatched undergraduate friends uncover traces of worlds usually unseen: the dubious spirit-world of the traditional college ghost, the undiscussed secrets of student life after college gates are closed for the night, and the underworld of the town's slums, home of social classes living ghostly existences on the borders of the system. Inevitably they also discover the faultlines in their own friendship. A study o...

In AD9 Rome suffered its worst military defeat, the annihilation of three legions in a German forest. But there was no clearly defined country of Germany to claim the victory, and for the victorious general, one tribal chieftain among many chieftains and many tribes, defeating Rome was only the beginning of a far longer battle.