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.

A group of Marines recall their horrifying memories of fighting on the Pacific front of World War II, while a journalist attempts to glorify their experiences for his readers.

During the Second World War, a woman falls in love with a Merchant Marine and agrees to marry him just before he is deployed - but their whirlwind love story is fated to have a tragic end.

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.

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

Upon hearing about an upcoming wedding, a former American soldier reminisces about the time he met a young girl who gave him the recourse to survive the war.

When a World War II soldier returns home to San Francisco, memories of a late friend keep him from enjoying the normalcy of civilian life.

A German writer with a tumultuous family history struggles to escape his chaotic, painful past through prose. When a mysterious woman enters his life, he allows himself to hope for a fresh start—but unexpected circumstances soon put his dream in jeopardy.

A man attempting to write a book on the Iraq war has flashbacks of violence from his time with a group of marines he accompanied as a journalist. The book centers around a man who is a stand-in for himself, who later tells his stories to an Israeli business man who is actually an intelligence agent in a bar in Frankfurt.

Going through his daily motions, a Delaware farmer stops for a second to reminisce on an intimate near-death experience he shared with a mysterious boy during World War II.