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Love-charm of bombs : restless lives in the Second World War / by Lara, Feigel.

By: Feigel, Lara [author.]Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury, 2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 519 p. ; illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781408830444 (hbk.)Subject(s): Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973 | Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 | Macaulay, Rose, 1881-1958 | Green, Henry, 1905-1973 | Spiel, Hilde | World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- London | World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- England -- London | World War, 1939-1945 -- Psychological aspects | Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the warDDC classification: 940.53421
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."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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."

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