Alexandre Dumas der Ältere hat so viele historische Romane geschrieben, daß man ihre genaue Zahl nicht weiß. Die Zeit Napoleons hatten die Nachlebenden sich zu Legenden verklärt, die Wirklichkeit empfand man als die der...
In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are...
1677, on a late summer’s evening two ships lurk off the coast of southwest Ireland. They are Barbary corsairs from North Africa, slave catchers. As soon as it is dark, their landing parties row ashore to raid a small fishing village - on the hunt...