Edward Blake
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
Corporal Nym
대주교들의 도움으로 프랑스 왕위를 찬탈한 헨리5세는 캐더린 공주를 본 순간 사랑을 느껴 구혼한다. 헨리5세는 왕위에 오르기 전까지는 책을 멀리하고, 시종 잡배와 어울리며, 주색과 잡기, 심지어는 도둑의 무리와 어울리며 부랑 생활을 하여, 그가 왕위에 오른 후 올바른 정사를 할 수 있을까 모두가 걱정하였다. 그러나 그가 왕위에 오르자 온 세상이 깜짝 놀란다. 학문을 게을리했지만, 그의 이론은 논리 정연했고, 무술을 연마하지 않았어도 그는 누구도 당할자 없는 군인으로, 무인으로도 손색이 없었다. 그는 충신을 볼 줄 아는 안목을 가지고 정사를 보살핌에 있어서도 겸허한 자세로 신하들의 말에 귀를 기울여 온 국민에게 존경받고, 사랑받는 덕망높은 왕이 되었다. 그러나 에드워드 3세의 직계인 영국왕 헨리는 자신의 조부 에드워드 3세의 직계로써 프랑스에 대한 정당한 권리가 인정되지 않아 마침내 전쟁에 이르게 되는데...
Gösta
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
Charles
At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.
Briggs
David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
Trapes
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
Explorer
An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.
