Franklyn Bennett

In colonial Australia, James Morrison is a young teamster who has two friends, Long and Short. He is betrothed to Jane Judd when he visits Sydney and meets fiery Irish girl Biddy O'Shea, who is just off the "wife ship" – a boatload of women from an Irish orphanage bought out to Australia. James is attracted to Biddy and promises to marry her. James returns to Bathurst to break the news to Jane, but his mother dies and makes James promise to marry her daughter. He feels obliged to honour his old commitment to Jane.

The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.

A proper Edwardian lady patiently endures the ever-increasing disruption to her quiet household when her Truelove gives her all the items from the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

C'est l'histoire d'un bâtiment de guerre, le destroyer britannique HMS Torrin, depuis sa mise en chantier avant la déclaration de guerre conjointe de la Grande-Bretagne et de la France à l'Allemagne, jusqu'à sa destruction à la suite des attaques aériennes allemandes. Les survivants, accrochés à un bateau pneumatique de sauvetage, se souviennent de leur vie passée.