The love-charm of bombs
Subtitle: restless lives in the Second World War
By: Lara Feigel
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9781608199846
Subjects: English Authors; Psychological aspects; World War, 1939-1945; Biography; Literature and the war
Description: 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.
Notes: Another ed. published: London, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. One Night in the Lives of Five Writers : September 26, 1940; title: Newsreel; title: 7 p.m. : Blackout; title: 10 p.m. : Fire; title: 1 a.m. : Rescue; title: 6 a.m. : All Clear; title: Part II. The Blitz : September 1940-May 1941; title: "War, she thought, was sex"; title: "Ireland can be dementing"; title: "How we shall survive this I don't know"; title: "So much else is on the way to be lost"; title: Part III. The Lull : June 1941-February 1944; title: " You are the ultimate of something"; title: "Can pain and danger exist?"; title: "Only at night I cry"; title: "Alas, what hate everywhere"; title: Part IV. Approaching Victory : June 1944-August 1945; title: "Droning things, mindlessly making for you"; title: "A collective intoxication of happiness"; title: "The days were listless and a flop"; title: Part V. Surveying the Ruins : Postwar Europe, 1945-9; title: "The magic Irish light and the soft air"; title: "Flying, no, leaping, into the centre of the mainland"; title: "O, maybe we'll live a while in Killala"; title: "The returning memory of a dream long forgotten"; title: "The place I really did lose my heart to was Vienna"; title: Part VI. Mid-century : Middle Age; title: " We could have been happy for a lifetime"; title: "Let us neither of us forget ... what reality feels like and eternity is"; title: "The world my wilderness, its caves my home."