Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As the orchestra travels around the country, Babs' fellow orchestra members intercept and hide her War Office telegram to protect the baby.

Palestine, 1948. After the withdrawal of the British occupiers, tensions rise between Arabs and Jews...

The Vidal family is spending a summer on Catalonia’s gorgeous Costa Brava with their Alzheimer-affec...

French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegu...

Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of ...

A Jewish teenager sets three goals: lose his virginity, become a writer, and survive World War II.

When her nation is invaded, a young princess is taken into the Princess Protection Program. She is r...

A Marine Sergeant wounded in overseas combat requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recomm...

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret ...

After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat...

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz E...

The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper ano...

Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-mart...

Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee f...

World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an American...

Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, endurin...

Karlag, short for Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp, was one of the largest labor camps within the Sov...

On Saturday, 5 April 1941, one day before the Invasion of Yugoslavia of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a...

A very stressed young woman is dismayed to find herself behaving like her own mother, with whom she ...

Mariupol. Pre-war life in a small Ukrainian town on the shore of the Azov Sea, with a good family li...

Three 40-something women in a small English town meet weekly for a ritual of gin, cigarettes, and sw...