The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film

“A marvelous bombshell of a book, by one of our most formidably knowledgeable and insightful writers on film, it is filled with surprises and witty asides.Though Thomson is quick to pounce on the hypocrisies and historical omissions of some of these war movies, there is nothing compromised about his own daredevil judgments.We are in the hands of a master critic/essayist.”-Phillip Lopate

From one of the greatest living writers on film, a magisterial look at a century of battle depicted on scr...