‘Small, very talkative, ready enough to do evil, shrewd and jocular, extremely cruel and daring.’ Orderic Vitalis on Mabel de Belleme. Mabel is the daughter of William de Belleme, known as Talvas, the Hard Shield, for his fierceness in battle…and at home. When William murders Mabel’s mother, he is expelled from his castle into exile, […]

During World War II, a star baseball player trades his bat for a rifle and discovers that some battles can’t be won on any field. Will Jamison has it all as a rising star for the Washington Senators when Pearl Harbor changes everything. Driven by patriotism and family legacy, he enlists in the Army, leaving […]

In the camps, hunger is the only true constant. But there are worse things than hunger in Auschwitz. Moshe-Yankel Zisovitch was only fifteen years old when he faced the selection at the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau. But passing those gates was only the first step on his road to survival. At Auschwitz, young Moshe learned that […]