Britain Can Take It: The British Cinema in the Second World War

Table of contents

• Title Page ii
• Contents iv
• Acknowledgements vi
• Preface to the Paperback Edition vii
• 1 - The British Cinema During the Second World War 1
• Notes 17
• 2 Why We Fight - 49th Parallel 21
• Notes 41
• The Englishman's Englishman - Pimpernel Smith 44
• Notes 73
• 4 - Raise a Laugh Let George Do It 76
• Notes 93
• 5 'Careless Talk Costs Lives' - The Next of Kin 96
• Notes 113
• 6 'If the Invader Comes' - Went the Day Well? 115
• Notes 135
• 7 Mobilizing the Past - The Young Mr Pitt 138
• Notes 165
• 8 Signs of the Times - Thunder Rock 168
• Notes 184
• 9 Naval Cavalcade - In Which We Serve 187
• Notes 214
• 10 - England, Their England Fires Were Started 218
• Notes 243
• 11 the War the Documentarists Won - Western Approaches 246
• Notes 273
• 12 Our American Cousins - The Way to the Stars 277
• Notes 296
• 13 'National Pride and Prejudices' - Tunisian Victory 299
• Notes 318
• 14 Class and Nation - Ships with Wings 326
• Notes 344
• Filmography 346
• Index 354

Work saved from this book