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Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945 An Exhaustive Filmography of American Feature-Length Motion Pictures Relating to World W


Free Download Michael S. Shull, "Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945: An Exhaustive Filmography of American Feature-Length Motion Pictures Relating to World W"
English | ISBN: 0786428546 | 2006 | 488 pages | PDF | 61 MB
From 1937 through 1945, Hollywood produced over 1,000 films relating to the war. This enormous and exhaustive reference work first analyzes the war films as sociopolitical documents. Part one, entitled "The Crisis Abroad, 1937-1941," focuses on movies that reflected America’s increasing uneasiness. Part two, "Waging War, 1942-1945," reveals that many movies made from 1942 through 1945 included at least some allusion to World War II.

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Madrid 1937 Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade From the Spanish Civil War


Free Download Cary Nelson, Jefferson Hendricks, "Madrid 1937: Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade From the Spanish Civil War"
English | 1996 | pages: 535 | ISBN: 0415914086, 0415866731 | PDF | 23,4 mb
Few topics in 20th century history generate as much interest as the Spanish Civil War. These letter from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade take us back to a time when 2800 Americans took up arms and confronted Hitler’s Condor Legion, Mussolini’s Black Shirts, and Franco’s fascist calvary on the battlefields of Spain. Here are their combat experiences, the love letters they wrote under fire, friendships formed among themselves and with their Spanish comrades, and reports of Madrid and Barcelona undergoing history’s first saturation bombing of civilian targets. It was the eve of World War II, and these men and women saw first-hand the danger facing the world. Iadrid 1937 captures for the first time the thoughts, words and dreams of those who fought.

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