Describes the lives and dangers faced by five war correspondents who reported from the line of fire during World War II to provide content for the newspapers and magazines back home.

Early impressions --"All sorts of horrors" : crossing Torpedo Junction -- North Africa's lipless kiss -- Angry meteors in Tunisia -- Bombing Germany with the Writing 69th -- Falling like dying moths -- Sicily-- darker than a witch's hat -- White Crosses along the Red Rapido -- The Blitz Spirit : London and the Home Front -- Cherbourg and St.-Lô : ugly fighting among dead cattle -- The breakout : Merci! merci! merci! -- Rescuing the kitten : Paris redeemed -- Gasping cough : crashing into Holland -- Gray phantoms and murder factories : the Bulge to Buchenwald.