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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.
The product of five years of scrupulous archival research, Five Came Back provides a revelatory new understanding of Hollywood’s role in the war through the life and work of these five men who chose to go, and who came back.
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Feb 27, 2014 · Mark Harris’ “Five Came Back” is a first rate piece of historical reporting; the book details how five (John Ford, John Huston, George Stevens, William Wyler, Frank Capra) well known directors (and in the case of Capra and Ford, arguably Hollywood’s two most powerful directors) joined the military in WW II and what each of them went ...
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Feb 24, 2015 · The product of five years of scrupulous archival research, Five Came Back provides a revelatory new understanding of Hollywood’s role in the war through the life and work of these five men who chose to go, and who came back.
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Feb 27, 2014 · Here is the remarkable, untold story of how five major Hollywood directors—John Ford, George Stevens, John Huston, William Wyler, and Frank Capra—changed World War II, and how, in turn, the war changed them.
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Feb 20, 2014 · FIVE CAME BACK tells the story of five film directors (John Ford, George Stevens, John Huston, William Wyler and Frank Capra) from 1938 to 1947, when they enlisted into the military and made films during World War II.
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