'When Trumpets Fade' takes you onto the fields of valour, deep into the mud and madness of battle. American Forces are under orders to secure a bridge flanked by enemy tanks. Men already trapped in a hellish minefield face death from all sides as shells rain down from the sky. Hundreds of lives have been lost, and the surviving troops are bloodied and shell-shocked. Now it's down to four renegade soldiers: a frightened private promoted to captain, (Ron Eldard), a strong-willed medic, an angry young sergeant, and an inexperienced new recruit. They have only one thing in common, a desperate will to stay alive. But war can make unlikely heroes out of men who will not die...