Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Film, Television and the Second World War: The First Fifty Years; M.Paris 'Rose-tinted Blighty': Gender and Genre in Land Girls ; W.Webster Policing the People's War: Foyle's War and British Television Drama; J.Chapman An Autobiographical Allegory: Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini ; R.W.Matson Soccer with the Dead: Mediterraneo , the legacy of Neorealism and the Myth of the 'Italiani Brava Gente'; S.Giovacchini Safe Conduct (2002): A Tribute to the French Film Industry During the Second World War; D.Afoumado Aimee, Jaguar, and Sophie Scholl : Women on the German Home Front; H.Jones 'This Film is Based on a True Story': The Tuskegee Airmen ; S.P.Mackenzie 'What Happened Was Wrong': Come See the Paradise and the Japanese-American Experience in the Second World War; M.Paris Commissioning Mass Murder: Conspiracy and History at the Wannsee Conference; S.Gigliotti Laughing Against Horror: Life is Beautiful and Train of Life ; P.Sorlin Enemy at the Gates as a 'Soviet' War Film; D.J.Youngblood Bomber Harris : Raking Through the Ashes of the Strategic Air Campaign; M.Connelly Realism, Historical Truth and the War Film: The case of Saving Private Ryan ; T.Haggith Downfall and Other Endings: German Film and Hitler's War after Sixty Years; T.Barta Notes and References Index