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  • History of War

    THE FATAL ALLIANCE A CENTURY OF WAR ON FILM

    Feb 15, 2024 2 minutes

    Author: David Thomson Publisher: HarperCollins Price £25 (Hardback) Released: Out now

    In , film critic David Thomson examines what the book’s blurb calls the “twisted relationship between war and the movies”. What it delivers is a highly stylised, often witty history of the war movie that is not what it first seems.

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