The war correspondents and journalists contributing to this collection give vivid accounts of the nobility and depravity, the suffering and the courage of all major conflicts of the modern era. They include: Henry Villard's account of the First Battle of Bull Run; Rudyard Kipling on the Boer War; George Orwell on the Spanish Civil War; Ernest Hemingway on D-Day 1944; Martha Gelhorn on the Battle of the Bulge; Edwin Tetlow on the overthrow of Batista by Castro's rebels; Michael Kerr at Khe Sahn; Seymour Hersh on the My Lai Massacre; John Pilger on the last days of Saigon; Max Hastings on the surrender of Port Stanley; and Eric Schmitt on scud-hunting in the Gulf.