When Eagles Dared

ISBN: 9781848856509 出版年：2012 页码：304 Howard Hughes Bloomsbury Publishing

When Eagles Darto the men and women who participated in World War II and the filmmakers who have immortalised their stories on screen. It tells both the story of the historical events of this first truly 'worthe films that have depicted these events - comparing the cinematic myth with the historical reality - as a guide to history through cinema.When Eagles Dared portrays the people who participated in the war, from the evacuation of the Allied forcat Dunkirk through to the battle for Berlin and beyond. Each chapter discusses a theatre of war, an event, a campaign or battle by explaining the historical events and then examines how filmmakers have represented them. Chapters discuss the war in the skies (Battle of Britain and The Dam Busters), the sea (Sink the Bismarck! and The Cruel Sea) and the North African deseof El Alamein and Tobruk). There are 'special mission' movies including Where Eagles Dare and The Dirty Dozen, classic tales of ingenuity (The Great Escape), valour (Saving Private Ryan), and human enduranon the River Kwai). Offering a uniqthrough the lenses of over 150 diverse films thour perceptions of the conflicDared is illustrated wiand posters from this ever popular genre.