{"product_id":"five-came-back-a-story-of-hollywood-and-the-second-world-war-9780143126836","title":"Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Hollywood Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the great works of film history of the decade.\" --\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow a Netflix original documentary series, also written by Mark Harris: the extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywood's most important directors, all of whom put their stamp on World War II and were changed by it forever \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere 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. In a move unheard of at the time, the U.S. government farmed out its war propaganda effort to Hollywood, allowing these directors the freedom to film in combat zones as never before. They were on the scene at almost every major moment of America's war, shaping the public's collective consciousness of what we've now come to call the good fight. The product of five years of scrupulous archival research, \u003ci\u003eFive Came Back \u003c\/i\u003eprovides 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Harris \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003ePictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e notable book of the year and was named one of the ten best nonfiction books of the decade by \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e. An editor at large at \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, a columnist for \u003ci\u003eGrantland\u003c\/i\u003e, and a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, he has written about pop culture and film history for many other publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of Yale University, Harris lives in New York City with his husband, Tony Kushner.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318166229266,"sku":"9780143126836","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_61ea146f-ed60-4981-879b-6070e92057d4.jpg?v=1727549713","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/five-came-back-a-story-of-hollywood-and-the-second-world-war-9780143126836","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}