But this other war had its dramatic tales, quiet heroes, haunting happenstances and silent victims.
It is harder to tell the story of these quiet heroes than the guys with the guns.
The book is filled with numerous villains of power and quiet heroes of suffering.
It's the Judes of the world who attract me, the quiet heroes.
Luis Sojo, cast off like a used tissue after last season, then brought back into the fold and made into a quiet hero.
That is how the story of the quiet heroes alters the picture of daily life under the swastika.
It's not easy to be married to a quiet hero, that's no easy task!
How many other, quieter heroes has this mechanic scraped out of tanks into buckets to get the machines ready for another crew?
"Kerry, I think, has been the quiet, unsung hero in this series," Scott said.
"He was the quiet hero," said his sister Rose Deming-Phalon.