After suffering the torments of slavery, the destruction of his nation, and the massacre of his band of brothers, Rodion Kazansky craves revenge and yearns for the freedom owed to him as a proud Cossack. A lost horse and a chance meeting with Catherine the Great set him off on a journey that will take him from the steppes of the Crimea to the beaches of the Gold Coast of Africa and back again. There he will face British slavers, pirates, and the ghosts of his past to become the bane of his enemies as the Czarina's Buccaneer.

After more than fifteen years, this initial volume of the American Film Institute Catalog series is again in print. The 1920s set covers the important filmmaking period when "movies" became "talkies," and the careers of many influential directors and actors were launched. Films such as Wings, The Phantom of the Opera, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Jazz Singer are included in this volume.

Sophia Fortezza, an Italian merchant's daughter, seeks to escape her debtors through a life of adventure and romance. At the outset of the Thirty Years War, Sophia is about to experience the trauma of battle and the pain of the whip. But she need not endure these shocks alone. New friends like the Spanish soldier Don Alfonso and the English peasant James Fletcher will all suffer equally under the banner of the honorable Talbot Company. Chapters 1 to 29 will be hosted for free on royalroad.com