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Linked stories of Charles XII of Sweden and the soldiers and subjects who followed him through his long wars against Russia, Poland and Denmark.
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August 1914
The Russian army's invasion of East Prussia in August 1914 and its disaster at Tannenberg, seen through officers, soldiers and families across Russia.
The Fall of the King
In sixteenth-century Denmark, Mikkel Thøgersen, a restless student, is drawn into the service of King Christian II, and into the wars, cruelties and decline of his reign.
Wayward Heroes
In the eleventh century, two Icelandic sworn brothers, Þorgeir, who lives for battle, and Þormóður, a poet, set out to win glory in the style of the old sagas.
Hadji Murád
An Avar commander who has fought for the rebel imam Shamil defects to the Russians in 1851 to save his family, and finds himself trusted by neither side.
The Knights of the Cross
Around 1400, the young Polish knight Zbyszko of Bogdaniec vows to win three peacock plumes from the helmets of the Teutonic Knights for Danusia, and his oath draws him into the long war with the Order.
And Quiet Flows the Don
Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack in a village on the Don, falls for his married neighbour Aksinia before the First World War and the Revolution tear his world apart.
Iceland's Bell
At the end of the seventeenth century, under Danish rule, Jón Hreggviðsson, a poor farmer accused of killing the king's hangman, wanders Iceland and Europe while a scholar collects the country's ancient manuscripts.
Saint Joan
A play: Joan, a farm girl from Domrémy who hears the voices of saints, talks her way to the Dauphin and leads the French army to Orléans, and the Church and the English take note.
The Last Kingdom
Uhtred, the young heir to the Northumbrian fortress of Bebbanburg, is captured by Danish invaders in the ninth century and raised as one of them, until war forces him to choose between the Danes he loves and Alfred of Wessex, the last Saxon king standing.
Meek Heritage
The life of Juha Toivola, a poor, slow-witted Finnish cottager born in the famine years of the 1860s, who drifts through hardship toward the civil war of 1918.
The Moon Is Down
An invading army takes a small coastal mining town in an unnamed northern country almost without a shot, and its colonel tries to run it peacefully through the town's mayor.
The Emigrants
In 1850 a group of poor Swedish farmers and outcasts from Småland sell what they own and cross the Atlantic towards the promise of Minnesota land.