Fifteen members of the United States Marines tell stories about their time serving in Europe during World War I.

Two soldiers recount their encounter with a battalion of ghost soldiers defending them in the WWI trenches.

A soldier stumbles to the doorstep of a friend in Paris after World War II, begging to tell the story of his lost comrade to anyone who will listen.

In England during World War II, a literary critic turned war correspondent finds himself face to face with his own mortality on an air raid mission.

An American vacationer aboard a train coming from Belgium meets a British man who shares his unbelievable story of how he secretly turned the tide of the first World War.

Separated from his unit, an American soldier in France forms an unexpected partnership with a man who seems equally lost. Their adventures eventually lead them back to their unit, but not before they shoot down parachuters that may or may not have been their own men.

During World War I, a librarian has her heart broken by a soldier overseas and she tries to overcome her sadness.

A war photographer comes face to face with the senseless violence and death of the Spanish Civil War after spending time in the trenches with soldiers and decides he cannot stomach it.

A retired army officer immerses himself in creating an honorary parade for the world war that ended over a decade prior. In his obsessions with recognizing the past, his present relationship with his family becomes strained.

A man tries to understand the seemingly contradictory personality of a fellow American soldier.