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cinema was the most popular form of entertainment during the
Second World War. Film was a critically important medium for
influencing opinion. Films, such as 'In Which We Serve' and
'One of Our Aircraft is Missing', shaped the British people's
perceptions of the conflict. British War Films, 1939-45
is an account of the feature films produced during the war,
rather than government documentaries and official propaganda,
making the book an important index of British morale and values
at a time of desperate national crisis.
S. P. MacKenzie is Professor of History at
the University of South Carolina and the author of several
books related to the Second World War, including The Home
Guard (1995) and The Colditz Myth (2004).
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