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 bombbursts as holding one like a lovecharm. As the sky whistled and the ground shook, nerves were tested, loyalties examined and infidelities begun.The Lovecharm 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, firefighters 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 postwar Vienna and Berlin. She reveals the haunting, ecstatic, often wrenching stories that triumphed amid the mess of a wartorn world.

Binding: Paperback;528 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: BGL; Weight: 566 g; Dimensions: 200 x 133 x 33

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