War In The Dark   Well before the film’s debut we could hear the
drumbeat of publicity. Steven Spielberg, America’s favorite
moviemaker, was going to give us a film about World War II. The
title, Saving Private Ryan , gave away nothing. Unlike
Schindler’s List , which translated Thomas Keneally’s best-
selling book on the Holocaust to the screen, Saving Private Ryan
would build its plot around an obscure incident from the
invasion of Normandy.   Well before the film’s debut we could
hear the drumbeat of publicity. Steven Spielberg, America’s
favorite moviemaker, was going to give us a film about World War
II. The title, Saving Private Ryan, gave away nothing. Unlike
Schindler’s List, which translated Thomas Keneally’s best-
selling book on the Holocaust to the screen, Saving Private Ryan
would build its plot around an obscure incident from the
invasion of Normandy. Four brothers from the Niland family had
had a very bad war by the summer of 1944: Two had been killed on
D-Day, and another was thought to have bee