The Love-charm of Bombs - 9781408830901
Un libro in lingua di Lara Feigel edito da Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2015
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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 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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Love-charm of Bombs
- Sottotitolo: Restless Lives in the Second World War
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Lara Feigel
- Editore: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
- Collana: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 16 Giugno '15
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Pagine: 519
- Dimensioni mm: 198 x 129 x 0
- EAN-13: 9781408830901