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The Love-charm of Bombs
- Restless Lives in the Second World War
Engelsk Paperback
The Love-charm of Bombs
- Restless Lives in the Second World War
Engelsk Paperback

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When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss. But for Graham Greene and some of his contemporaries, this was a bizarrely euphoric time when London became the setting for intense love affairs and surreal beauty. At the height of the Blitz, Greene described the bomb-bursts as holding one ''like a love-charm''. As the sky whistled and the ground shook, nerves were tested, loyalties examined and infidelities begun.

The Love-charm of Bombs is a powerful wartime chronicle told through the eyes of five prominent writers: Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Rose Macaulay, Hilde Spiel and Henry Yorke (writing as Henry Green). Volunteering as ambulance drivers, fire-fighters and ARP wardens, these were the successors to the soldier poets of the First World War and their story has never been told. Now, opening with a meticulous evocation of a single night in September 1940, Lara Feigel brilliantly and beautifully interweaves letters, diaries and fiction with official civil defence records to chart the history of a burning world in wartime London and post-war Vienna and Berlin. She reveals the haunting, ecstatic, often wrenching stories that triumphed amid the mess of a war-torn world.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
528
ISBN-13:
9781408830901
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1408830906
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
27 feb 2014
Længde:
33mm
Bredde:
133mm
Højde:
200mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
27 feb 2014
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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