When Eagles Dared

Preface: War and Remembrance
Acknowledgements
Theatres of War: An Introduction to World War II
Chapter 1: The Fall of France (1940)
Key films featured: The Lion Has Wings, The Battle of the River Plate, Dunkirk, Mrs Miniver, Eagles Over London
Chapter 2: The War in the Skies (1940-45)
Key films featured: Battle of Britain, Angels One Five, Reach for the Sky, The Way to the Stars, The Dam Busters, 633 Squadron
Chapter 3: The War at Sea (1940-45)
Key films featured: In Which We Serve, The Cruel Sea, Sink the Bismarck!, Above Us the Waves
Chapter 4: The Pacific War (1941-42)
Key films featured: Tora! Tora! Tora!, Pearl Harbor, From Here to Eternity, They Were Expendable, Midway
Chapter 5: The Submarine War (1940-45)
Key films featured: 49th Parallel, Crash Dive, We Dive at Dawn, The Enemy Below, Das Boot, Torpedo Run, Operation Pacific, Murphyâs War
Chapter 6: The War in the Med (1940-45)
Key films featured: Ill Met by Moonlight, Malta Story, The Guns of Navarone, Escape to Athena, The Battle on the River Neretva, The Secret Invasion, Force 10 from Navarone
Chapter 7: The Desert War (1940-43)
Key films featured: The Desert Fox, Ice Cold in Alex, Tobruk, The Battle of El Alamein, Play Dirty, Commandos, Patton, The Big Red One
Chapter 8: War Behind the Wire (1940-45)
Key films featured: The Wooden Horse, The Colditz Story, The Great Escape, Von Ryanâs Express, The One That Got Away, The McKenzie Break, Escape to Victory
Chapter 9: The War in the Far East (1941-45)
Key films featured: The Bridge on the River Kwai, Return from the River Kwai, King Rat, The Long and the Short and the Tall, Never So Few, Merrillâs Marauders, Objective, Burma!
Chapter 10: The Eastern Front (1941-45)
Key films featured: Stalingrad, Come and See, Cross of Iron, The Star, Kanal
Chapter 11: The Battle for Italy (1943-45)
Key films featured: A Walk in the Sun, G.I. Joe, Anzio, To Hell and Back, Salt in the Wound, Rome Open City, Pais , The Last Days of Mussolini
Chapter 12: Special Ops in Europe (1940-44)
Key films featured: The Cockleshell Heroes, The Heroes of Telemark, Max Manus, Flame & Citron, Operation: Daybreak, Went the Day Well?, The Eagle Has Landed, The Dirty Dozen
Chapter 13: Special Ops in Europe II (1944-45)
Key films featured: Where Eagles Dare, Valkyrie, Operation Crossbow, The Dirty Heroes
Chapter 14: The D-Day Landings (1944)
Key films featured: Overlord, D-Day the Sixth of June, The Longest Day
Chapter 15: The Battle for France (1944)
Key films featured: Saving Private Ryan, Is Paris Burning?, The Train, Kellyâs Heroes, Days of Glory, The Inglorious Bastards, Inglourious Basterds
Chapter 16: Operation Market Garden (1944)
Key films featured: The Last Drop, A Bridge Too Far
Chapter 17: The Pacific War II (1942-45)
Key films featured: Guadalcanal Diary, The Thin Red Line, In Harmâs Way, MacArthur, Sands of Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, None But the Brave, Hell in the Pacific
Chapter 18: The Ardennes Offensive (1944-45)
Key films featured: Hell is for Heroes, Attack, Battle of the Bulge, Battleground, The Bridge at Remagen

Epilogue
Key films featured: Downfall, The Fifth Day of Peace, Ashes and Diamonds, Germany Year Zero, Hiroshima Mon Amour
Bibliography
Index