America's greatest and most influential combat journalists tell their own harrowing and revealing stories about the experience of covering war. At the turning points of modern American history, from the beaches of Normandy to the jungles of Southeast Asia, war correspondents have served as our eyes and ears -- sometimes even as our conscience. Courageous and controversial, they have captured war in all its brutality, folly, and drama. In the process, they have both reflected and altered America's sense of itself.

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Edward R. Murrow -- Walter Cronkite -- Martha Gellhorn -- Andy Rooney -- Frank Gibney -- Homer Bigart -- Malcom W. Browne -- David Halberstam -- Morley Safer -- Ward Just -- Gloria Emerson -- Peter Arnett -- Chris Hedges -- Christiane Amanpour -- Epilogue: The War in Iraq, 2003.