Of Men and War — John Hersey

Find out how war smells, looks, and feels to fighting men -- and how courage grows from their desperate will to live.

In five true stories of World War II --

• Survival
• The Battle of the River
• Nine Men on a Four-Man Raft
• Borie's Last Battle
• Front Seats at Sea War

-- a famous war correspondent takes you aboard John F. Kennedy's doomed PT-109...into the horror of Guadalcanal...onto a death raft in the Southwest Pacific.