A thirteen year old boy's grandfather tells his harrowing wartime story once again--this time in the darkness of his closet.

An American colonel posted in post-war China dislikes his younger colleague intensely, but does not know why until he realizes he is being taunted about his advanced age - an act of disdain familiar to him because he was guilty of it in his own youth.

The relationship between the Italians and the French run thin before and after the armistice, and two men (one Italian and one British) living in France try to understand where their place in the world is.

After a man goes through hell because of his training sergeant in basic training after being drafted during the Korean War, he becomes a sergeant himself to get back at the man.

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

After a Confederate soldier with a disability from South Carolina volunteers to take part in a submarine mission during the Civil War, the experimental submarine he crews causes more problems than it solves as the Confederate casualties continue to rise.

After six years of bloody civil war, the relationship between an army commander and her quartermaster wife has foundered and it’s unclear whether their love will last through the final battle.

An instructor for the Navy helps one of his students — a young, lonely, and drunk man who already has the Purple Heart — and subsequently feels less bad about his own loneliness and insecurity.

Sailors on a British naval ship ostracize a fellow crew member. When tragedy strikes, the man’s heroism changes the heart of one of his peers.

Lying in the hospital, a soldier fights the pain and the memories of war while facing the decision to undergo a lobotomy.