Saving Private Ryan

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Screenplay by:

Rodat, Robert

Selected by:

Kehl, Jacqueline

Author:

Collins, Max Allan

ISBN:

978-0-582-41983-4

Publication Date:

May 2000

Publisher:

Pearson ESL

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $9.27

Book Description:

On June 6, 1944 the allied forces land on the beaches of Normandy for one of the most decisive battles of World War II. For Captain John Miller and his squad of soldiers there is a special mission. One paratrooper is missing in action, he has already lost three brothers in the war. The Pentagon decides that the fourth brother must come home safely.

Saving Private Ryan is an award-winning film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks.

Book Details

Pages:	112
Detailed Subjects:	Fiction / General Fiction / Historical / 20Th Century / World War Ii & Holocaust
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	5.304 x 7.761 x 0.195 Inches
Book Weight:	0.246 Pounds

Author Biography

Collins, Max Allan (Screenplay by)

Max Allen Collins was born in 1948 in Muscatine, Iowa. He is a two-time winner of the Private Eye Writer's of America's Shamus Award for his Nathaniel Heller historical thrillers "True Detective" and "Stolen Away". Collins also wrote the Dick Tracy comic strip begining in 1977 and ending in the early 1990s. He has contributed to a number of other comics, including Batman. Collins created his first independent feature film, Mommy, following a nightmarish experience as screenwriter on the cable movie The Expert.

Collins has been contracted by DC Comics to write three tie-ins to his critically acclaimed graphic novel "The Road to Perdition", which was adapted into the feature film. Author of other such move tie-in bestsellers as "In the Line of Fire" and "Air Force One", he is also the screenwriter/director of the cult favorite suspense films "Mommie" and "Mommie's Day".

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