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On a freezing Civil War night, soldiers borrow a blanket from an unidentified dead sergeant.
A Union soldier returns to the Tennessee home he left after a bitter family split.
In a future where nations rent battlefields and fight by remote control, an untested pilot is handed three warships at once.
A peaceable French merchant endures a Prussian officer’s insults until one final humiliation forces him to fight.
A celebrated cavalry officer returns from war expecting to reclaim his glamorous lover, only to confront a form of sacrifice he cannot understand.
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.
During the Prussian occupation, a young Frenchwoman is drawn into an officers’ supper where humiliation sharpens into resistance.
A forester’s fearless daughter faces six lost Prussian soldiers alone in a snowbound forest house.
In occupied Normandy, a mother awaiting news of her soldier son shares her isolated cottage with four courteous enemy troops.
A hard Norman farmer faces a Prussian court-martial and calmly explains why enemy scouts have been vanishing.
A boastful Norman farmer turns the Prussian soldier billeted with him into a local joke, until humiliation becomes dangerous.
A general challenges a dinner party’s easy use of the word “horrible” with two memories of people stripped of humanity.
During the Prussian occupation, an officer mistakes a grieving woman’s immobility for defiance and decides to punish her.
A shaved moustache sends a society woman from bedroom complaint to a memory of recognizing French soldiers among the dead.
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.
A terrified Prussian straggler searches occupied Normandy for the safest possible enemy: someone willing to take him prisoner.
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 confident rural army meets an enemy weapon built to cross trenches, resist rifles, and turn courage into a tactical liability.
A dying professor lends his brain to an experimental warship, and the machine begins making decisions its creators never authorized.
A major crosses a ruined battlefield to negotiate peace, unaware that the autonomous weapons around him have learned to look human.
After eight years underground, three men risk the radioactive surface and find the robots fighting their war have kept a secret.
Explorers land on a dead planet and discover that one weapon has outlived the civilization it was built to defend.
