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     • Mark Harris’ popular 2014 book, Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War, is unquestionably the most absorbing and thorough account of Hollywood’s unprecedented and often bumpy relationship with the government in creating and distributing these propaganda films.
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   Feb 20, 2014 · Mark Harris's book about five Hollywood directors (John Ford, George Stevens, John Huston, William Wyler, Frank Capra) who joined the military to direct the American propaganda effort during World War II is remarkable.

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   Feb 27, 2014 · Five Came Back tells the fantastic story of five directors who offered their services to the United States during World War II. The tremendous amount of research done by Mark Harris and his engaging writing delivers a page turner that is a must read for fans of film history and WWII.

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   Mar 3, 2014 · FIVE CAME BACK A STORY OF HOLLYWOOD AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR. by Mark Harris ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 3, 2014. As riveting and revealing as a film by an Oscar winner.

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   Jun 27, 2014 · FIVE CAME BACK. A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War. By Mark Harris. Penguin Press, $29.95. In his previous book, “Pictures at a Revolution,” Harris used the five best...

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   Book Summary. In Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris turned the story of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967 into a landmark work of cultural history, a book about the transformation of an art form and the larger social shift it signified.

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   Mar 26, 2014 · In "Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War", Harris examines the wartime work of Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston, George Stevens and William Wyler, and reveals how the men shaped the war's messages and vice versa.