The whole country's gone mad. King Charles I wants one religion and all his subjects must follow it. He is threatening to forcibly modify the Anglican faith. Half his subjects are protesting. He also wants money but Parliament want to talk to him about his taxes. He's refused to call Parliament for eleven years, and has tried to browbeat Parliament by force. It's 1642 and England is in an economic and political melt down, as difficult a situation as today's similar economic and political mess. The King won't bend, Parliament won't break, it's an explosive deadlock. During those few chaotic...

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In the British army of 1872, corrupt young officers play games of a different kind. Their favourite is to rape young society women in their homes. The rogues make a competition out of it. The more girls the regiment savages, the more different ways they do it, the greater their merriment and cheers for the winning regiment.

But the victims go through hell. They can't tell anyone, not even their mothers and suffer the shame. Their families suffer too. Banker Bryce Ackerman loses the love of his life to the scoundrels, but he won't leave it alone. Bryce follows the...