1191 - In a harsh clash of two faiths, a boy knight is destined to be a true hero. Young Cuthbert, hungry for adventure and glory, joins King Richard the Lionheart's army on its way to the Holy Land with French and German allies to free Jerusalem from the Saracens.

It's 1857 - The terror of the Indian Uprising against British rule... All hell breaks loose, two teenage brothers Ned and Dick Warrender and their family are plunged into the maelstrom - hunted fugitives from appalling violence. Ned and Dick are thrown into dangerous adventures that will turn them from boys to men.

1884 - Deep in the deserts of Sudan a crazed fanatic spawns violent bloodshed... As members of the British force engaged in a desperate bid to save heroic Gordon of Khartoum, besieged by the frenzied armies of the Mahdi, teenagers Edgar and Rupert Clinton, twins divided by a woman's greed, unravel a past crime that threatens their future.

Three stirring tales of heroism from the age of empire: Rudyard Kipling's 'The Man Who Would Be King', 'King Solomon's Mines' by Sir Henry Rider Haggard and 'With Clive of India' by G A Henty.