When the Islanders of lonely Inisban off the wild Irish Coast rescued a ship’s doctor, Micheal O’Meara, from the sea they decided to keep him prisoner to doctor them, helped by Pegean Myne who was versed in herbal lore.
In 1939 when war broke out in Germany some Fairfields school pupils on holiday in Germany were arrested and imprisoned a few miles from the Swiss border. They decided to try and escape by secretly digging a tunnel to freedom.
December 1941 in Malaya and the Japanese invasion had forced the evacuation of many kids to Singapore. But then the train Jenny Thomas was on was bombed she found herself in charge of a handful of survivors.