Love-Charm of Bombs Feigel Lara
Love-Charm of Bombs Feigel Lara When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. But for Graham Greene and some of his contemporaries, this…
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Love-Charm of Bombs Feigel Lara
When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. 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. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded grueling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss.
Volunteering as ambulance drivers, fire-fighters and ARP wardens, these were the successors 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 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).