Sette contro la morte

Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.

During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.

September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon they realize Germans are still in control — and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, civilians rise up en masse against the invaders — and overwhelming odds.

สมาชิกของกองพลทหารอากาศที่ 101 ของกองทัพบกสหรัฐกำลังต่อสู้เพื่อประเทศของตนท่ามกลางภูมิประเทศที่ขรุขระของเมืองบาสโทญ ประเทศเบลเยียม ในเดือนธันวาคม พ.ศ. 2487 ฮอลลีย์และเพื่อนร่วมชาติชาวอเมริกันของเขาได้เห็นโรเดอริกส์ สมาชิกของพวกเขาเสียชีวิตจากการโจมตีของศัตรูไปแล้ว ทหารเหล่านี้พยายามตอบโต้การโจมตีของนาซีชุดใหม่ แต่สิ่งที่พวกเขาต้องการจริงๆ คือการเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพอากาศ หากไม่มีท้องฟ้าที่แจ่มใส พวกเขาจะไม่มีวันได้รับการสนับสนุนทางอากาศที่ต้องการ

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.

In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.

Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.

In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose overriding concern is caring for his catatonic colonel. Benson and Montana can't stand each other, but together they must get the survivors to Hill 465, where they hope the division is waiting. It's a long, harrowing march, fraught with all the dangers the elusive enemy can summon.

In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.

During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.