In their travels through Europe and North America, Tripp and Patricia Thomas discover places that stir their genes to remember places and incidents from the distant past, carried on the Wings of the Wind to the present: Romans in Roman Britain, The Vikings first landing in the British Isles, The British castles in South Wales, The British? part in the Crusades, The reformation and the martyrs, sacrificed by Bloody Mary, And ultimately the United States own cruel civil war. The results question accepted theories and give possible alternatives.