Summary
Entertainment columnist Mark Harris gives us the untold story of how Hollywood changed World War II, and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the prism of five film directors caught up in the war: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. It was the best of times... Full description
- "The Only Way I Could Survive"
- "The Dictates of My Heart and Blood"
- "You Must Not Realize that There is a War Going On"
- "What's the Good of a Message?"
- "The Most Dangerous Fifth Column in Our Country"
- "Do I Have to Wait for Orders?"
- "I've Only Got One German"
- "It's Going to be a Problem and a Battle"
- "All I Know Is That I'm Not Courageous"
- "Can You Use Me?"
- "A Good Partner to Have in Times of Trouble"
- "You Might as Well Run into It as Away from It"
- "Just Enough to Make It Seem Less Than Real"
- "Coming Along with Us Just for Pictures?"
- "How to Live in the Army"
- "I'm the Wrong Man for That Stuff"
- "I Have to Do a Good Job"
- "We Really Don't Know What Goes On Beneath the Surface"
- "If You Believe This, We Thank You"
- "A Sporadic Raid of Sorts on the Continent"
- "If You See It, Shoot It"
- "If Hitler Can Hold Out, So Can I"
- "Time and Us Marches On"
- "Who You Working For-Yourself?"
- "Where I Learned About Life"
- "What's This Picture For?"
- "An Angry Past Commingled with the Future in a Storm"
- "A Straight Face and a Painfully Maturing Mind"
- "Closer to What Is Going On in the World."