This Vertigo anthology features stories by top talent that explore the dark nooks and crannies of an always timely topic—war. Beneath the napalm-scorched Vietnamese countryside, a crew of tunnel rats encounter a horror beyond their wildest imagination...On the mean streets of Chicago's Southside, a mortally-wounded gang-banger tells how he lost his nerve in battle...On the blood-drenched fields of Feudal Japan, two warring Shoguns devise an ingenious way to settle their decades-old dispute.

In a quiet little suburb, the sleeping dogs of war rear up to take a bite out of the American Dream...In a brutal Confederate P.O.W. camp, two Yankee soldiers plan an impossible escape…

In the darkness of a little boy's bedroom, a toy soldier is subjected to an elaborate courtmartial...On the war-torn streets of Sarajevo, a Bosnian marksman hunts a mysterious Chetnik sniper...On the corpse-strewn fields of No Man's Land, a good soldier learns that the difference between life and death is a three-letter word.