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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..

1910. Halley's Comet is coming. Harry Houdini the most celebrated escape artist in the world has sol..

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

Power is shifting. Queen Elizabeth I is dying James waiting to become King. Everywhere there is oppo..

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