It's not clear whether General Von Schmitten notices the black crows as he wonders around Auschwitz, contemplating the contents of that evening's dinner. Long Boret certainly notices them whilst picking his son up from school on the day the Khmer Rouge take power. As for Masala, driving through Baghdad, he likens the Apache helicopters circling above to a murder of crows. Short Histories combines fact with fiction, comedy with tragedy, truth with farce, and alacrity with melancholy; at times poignant, at times irreverent. With so much war, and so much worth dying for, watch out for the...

'Tis the 12th, 13th or 14th century, something like that. King Dave has subjected England to a decade of peace and therefore prosperity. His family and his mates aren't having any of it. There follows some treachery, with a bit of comedy, and a spot of murder; not forgetting all the idiocy and sheer stupidity, which ends in a touch of tragedy.

Follow the farce as the reluctant monarch, against all odds, battles for survival.

The beautiful Emna plans to elope with her forbidden love, Dave. Meanwhile, her buffoon father arranges a marriage for her to a local delinquent. Enter a delirious aristocrat, who also throws his hat into the ring, leaving only carnage and chaos to ensue.