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The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War
Contributor(s): Feigel, Lara (Author)
ISBN: 1408830906     ISBN-13: 9781408830901
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
OUR PRICE:   $19.80  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Military - World War Ii
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
Dewey: 940.534
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (0.90 lbs) 528 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1940's
 
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Publisher Description:

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 grueling 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 defense 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.