"WARFILMS: An Overview of Motion Pictures Within Military Record Groups Held in the U.S. National Archives" continues Mr. Stewart's series of titles about re-discovered films found in America's film vault, the National Archives. This one has a distinct military bias. WARFILMS is a great addition to your military history tool box!
In his continuing effort to promote an underutilized visual resource of historically important film treasures, Mr. Stewart shares his research into the motion pictures of twentieth century warfare held in the film vault of the National Archives.
According to the author, "WARFILMS is a synopsis, a summary, an abbreviated finding aid of the 119,000-plus reels of historic motion picture film produced, acquired, or captured by twentieth century American armed forces that are located within the 35 military Record Groups at the United States National Archives and Records Administration facility in College Park, Maryland. Now that's a bit of a run-on sentence, but it's a very accurate description of this book."
While WARFILMS does not try to list all military films in the National Archives, it does identify and describe over 350 of them for review. The goal is to pique the readers' interest so that they will explore the additional thousands of historic military titles on their own. Mr. Stewart provides guidance as how to do that.
Phillip W. Stewart is a film researcher and the author of nine award winning books. He is also a recipient of the J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award given by the Society of American Archivists for his work promoting motion picture film preservation and research at the National Archives. Check out his website, www.pwstewart.com.
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Mushroom Cloud, a fact-based historical novel, is the first book of The First Strike Trilogy: USA and the Soviet Union are building nuclear arms for a face off in a potential nuclear war in the late 1950's and early 1960's.
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