The team of Harvey Kurtzman and John Severin was one of the most
fruitful collaborations in the history of comics. The work they did
together brings the gritty realism and psychological truth of Stephen
Crane and a verisimilitude to the page that it seems as if they are
reporting from the scene. Together with inker and friend Will Elder,
whose own obsession for detail perfectly complemented the impact they
were all striving to achieve, they produced 34 emotionally draining --
and dramatically eloquent -- war stories in just under three years. This
book collects them all. Settings include: the Roman empire; the
Revolutionary War; the American-Indian Wars; the Alamo; the Civil War;
World War I (in the trenches and in the air); World War II (in the
Pacific and in Europe, including the D-Day invasion); and the Korean
War.