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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Feigel, Lara.     Subjects     Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973.     Greene, Graham, 1904-1991     Macaulay, Rose, 1881-1958.     Green, Henry, 1905-1974.     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 war.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Feigel, Lara.       by title:      The love-charm of bo...       by call number:      940.5342 F297L     Search the Web     Feigel, Lara.     Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973.     Greene, Graham, 1904-1991     Macaulay, Rose, 1881-1958.     Green, Henry, 1905-1974.     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 war.       MARC Display

The love-charm of bombs : restless lives in the Second World War / Lara Feigel. by Feigel, Lara. Bloomsbury Press, 2013. Call #: 940.5342 F297L Subjects Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973.   Greene, Graham, 1904-1991   Macaulay, Rose, 1881-1958.   Green, Henry, 1905-1974.   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 war. ISBN:  9781608199846 (hc.) 1608199843 (hc.) 9781408830444 (hc.) 1408830442 (hc.) 9781408841037 (pbk.) 1408841037 (pbk.) Edition:  1st U.S. ed. Description:  519 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  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." Summary:  "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. 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 defence 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"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.5342 F297L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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