Edward Simpson, having developed a love of flying while helping his uncle build airplanes, heads to England to join the Royal Flying Corps. While defending his country in France during the First World War, he finds his friendships and beliefs tested.
After he survives a prison camp for Confederate soldiers in Andersonville, Georgia, where young Jake Clay befriended Billy Sharp, Jake embarks on his difficult journey home and is haunted by the ghosts of fallen soldiers.
Steve's grandfather's will sends him to Spain where he meets a girl named Laia and finds a trunk containing some of his grandfather's possessions, including a journal from when he fought with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. The journal inspires Steve to retrace his footsteps through Spain as he discovers his grandfather's involvement in a conflict that haunted him all his life.
Discusses Chinese who have immigrated to the United States, their reasons for coming, where they have settled, and how they have contributed to their new country.
Jim Doolen is a scout for the Army and is troubled by things he has witnessed as they attempt to force Apache natives onto a reservation far from their own lands, but after Jim is captured by his nemesis and forced to flee with a group of Apache warriors, he finds his loyalties divided.
The discovery in 1669 of a journal recording Henry Hudson's tragic search for a passage to Cathay over fifty years earlier, forces Robert Bylot, a once-great maritime explorer, to recall his experiences as part of that expedition--memories he would prefer to forget.
In the late 1870s, young Jim Doolen travels to New Mexico, where he befriends Bill Bonney, who is later known as Billy the Kid, and ends up in the middle of the Lincoln County War.
