From World War II to Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War, this is the story from the frontlines and the home front in photographs and text. It encompasses not only the soldiers at the front, but also the unsung men and women who prepare them for battle.

TIME GOES TO WAR tells a story that encompasses not only the soldiers at the front, but also the armies of unsung men and women who prepare them for battle. You'll join TIME reporters at the front in the hedgerows of France, the rice paddies of Vietnam, the deserts of Kuwait. You'll join those fighting against a new kind of enemy: the faceless terrorist who have plunged us into a new kind of war.