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26%OFFLara Feigel - The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War - 9781408830901 - V9781408830901
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The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War

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Description for The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War Paperback. A powerful chronicle of wartime London as experienced by five writers driving ambulances, fighting fires and falling passionately in love." Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 133 x 33. Weight in Grams: 422.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
422g
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408830901
SKU
V9781408830901
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Ref
99-50

About Lara Feigel
Dr Lara Feigel is a Lecturer in English and the Medical Humanities at King's College London, where her research is centred on the 1930s and the Second World War. She is the author of Literature, Cinema and Politics, 1930-1945 and the editor (with Alexandra Harris) of Modernism on Sea: Art and Culture at the British Seaside and (with John Sutherland) ... Read more

Reviews for The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War
Intelligently written, seamlessly presented
Nicholas Shakespeare
Daily Telegraph
A fascinating and brilliantly researched group biography ... An extraordinary tapestry of life in wartime ... This is a glorious mixture of history, literature and riveting gossip about war as - yes - an aphrodisiac
Bel Mooney
Daily Mail
The Love-Charm of Bombs is full of ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War


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