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On a dangerous night ride, a cavalry officer finds a missing trooper standing beside a fallen horse.
On a freezing Civil War night, soldiers borrow a blanket from an unidentified dead sergeant.
A wounded lieutenant seeks his unit near Stone’s River, but the battlefield has changed around him.
A Union picket officer fears a corpse more than the enemy near his position.
After a private is executed for striking an officer, a battlefield roll call receives an answer no one expects.
In a future where nations rent battlefields and fight by remote control, an untested pilot is handed three warships at once.
A wounded soldier and a nurse fall in love in wartime Milan, trying to make a future together before the front and the armistice pull them apart.
War, revolution, bullfights, and executions flash past in hard-edged scenes where courage and brutality become nearly indistinguishable.
A wounded lieutenant keeps vigil against sleep, replaying memory, prayer, and imagined trout streams to hold his soul together after the war.
Hussars holding a ruined village turn Twelfth Night into an improvised feast before war abruptly reclaims the evening.
During a winter retreat, a resourceful French lieutenant risks his mission to carry a freezing young woman through enemy-held country.
A general challenges a dinner party’s easy use of the word “horrible” with two memories of people stripped of humanity.
A Paris officer recognizes a former colonial soldier whose chaotic courage and appetite once shaped life inside a blockaded town.
During the siege of Paris, two old fishing companions cross the French lines for one peaceful morning beside the Seine.
An exhausted French detachment facing a deadly winter march finds unexpected resolve after taking two civilians under its protection.
A stranger on a train recounts a second life in a future world, where love and private happiness stand against an approaching global war.
A colonial patrol trapped on a cliff must escape enemy fire, thirst, and a drop that seems impossible to survive.
A confident rural army meets an enemy weapon built to cross trenches, resist rifles, and turn courage into a tactical liability.
A major crosses a ruined battlefield to negotiate peace, unaware that the autonomous weapons around him have learned to look human.
Wounded in a cavalry clash during the Sino-Japanese War, a Chinese soldier rides alone through the Manchurian fields with death suddenly close.
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