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The love-charm of bombs : restless lives in the Second World War
- Title
- The love-charm of bombs : restless lives in the Second World War / Lara Feigel.
- Author
- Feigel, Lara.
- Publication
- London : Bloomsbury, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- 519 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- As poetic as it is enlightening this detailed biography of five literary figures is achingly beautiful in its depiction of the disturbing everyday realities of war.
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war
- Authors, English > 20th century > Biography
- Greene, Graham, 1904-1991
- World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > England > London
- World War, 1939-1945 > Psychological aspects
- Green, Henry, 1905-1974
- Spiel, Hilde
- Macaulay, Rose, 1881-1958
- Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973
- World War, 1939-1945 > England > London
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part I. One Night in the Lives of Five Writers : September 26, 1940 -- Newsreel -- 7 p.m. : Blackout -- 10 p.m. : Fire -- 1 a.m. : Rescue -- 6 a.m. : All Clear -- Part II. The Blitz : September 1940-May 1941 -- "War, she thought, was sex" -- "Ireland can be dementing" -- "How we shall survive this I don't know" -- "So much else is on the way to be lost" -- Part III. The Lull : June 1941-February 1944 -- " You are the ultimate of something" -- "Can pain and danger exist?" -- "Only at night I cry" -- "Alas, what hate everywhere" -- Part IV. Approaching Victory : June 1944-August 1945 -- "Droning things, mindlessly making for you" -- "A collective intoxication of happiness" -- "The days were listless and a flop" -- Part V. Surveying the Ruins : Postwar Europe, 1945-9 -- "The magic Irish light and the soft air" -- "Flying, no, leaping, into the centre of the mainland" -- "O, maybe we'll live a while in Killala" -- "The returning memory of a dream long forgotten" -- "The place I really did lose my heart to was Vienna" -- Part VI. Mid-century : Middle Age -- " We could have been happy for a lifetime" -- "Let us neither of us forget ... what reality feels like and eternity is" -- "The world my wilderness, its caves my home."
- Call Number
- JFE 13-2723
- ISBN
- 9781608199846
- 1608199843
- 9781408830444 (hardback)
- 1408830442 (hardback)
- 9781408841037 (pbk.)
- 1408841037 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2012042328
- OCLC
- 810948631
- Author
- Feigel, Lara.
- Title
- The love-charm of bombs : restless lives in the Second World War / Lara Feigel.
- Publisher
- London : Bloomsbury, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-2723