The 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.
PAUL MACKENZIE is Professor of
History at the University of South
Carolina and the author of The Home
Guard: A Political and Military History.
