Timothy Newark
Author
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the Battle of the Somme (1916) through to American Sniper (2014), war and military history has been a staple of the film industry. This new study details fifty of the greatest war films, including classics such as In Which We Serve (1942) and The Dambusters (1955), and Hollywood epics such as The Dirty Dozen (1967) and Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970). Expert analysis is accompanied by images from the films and original movie posters, offering the reader...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Provides a fresh insight into the sites of some of history's greatest conflicts. By overlaying modern photographs of the battlefield with dramatic reconstructions of ten of the key battles, it compares in a unique way scenes of struggle and heroism with the often pastoral site today"--Page 4 of cover.
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2007, c2002]
Language
English
Description
M19, a little known top secret agency of the Allied war machine and one of World War II's greatest secrets, helped over 7000 British and American prisoners of war escape from Nazi-held territory and POW camps by teaching the soldiers how to withstand interrogation and how to escape and prevent recapture.