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restless lives in the Second World War

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An edition of The love-charm of bombs (2013)

The love-charm of bombs

restless lives in the Second World War

First U.S. edition.

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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.

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Bloomsbury
Language
English
Pages
519

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Subjects
English Authors, Psychological aspects, World War, 1939-1945, Biography, Literature and the war, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, british, World war, 1939-1945, great britain, Authors, biography, World war, 1939-1945, literature and the war, World war, 1939-1945, war work, London (england), history, New York Times reviewed, Social aspects
People
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Hilde Spiel, Henry Green (1905-1974), Rose Macaulay (1881-1958), Graham Greene (1904-1991)
Places
England, London
Times
20th century

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Love Charm of Bombs
2013, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War
2013, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Table of 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."

Edition Notes

Another ed. published: London, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.53/421
Library of Congress
D760.8.L7 F45 2013b, D760.8.L7F45 2013, D760.8.L7 F45 2013

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Pagination
519 pages
Number of pages
519

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OL27149919M
ISBN 10
1608199843
ISBN 13
9781608199846
LCCN
2012042328
OCLC/WorldCat
852941481, 810948631

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