The Love-charm of Bombs - Restless Lives in the Second World War

London: Bloomsbury, 2013. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. First edition, First printing. When the first bombs fell on London in 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 Londo became the setting for intense love affairs and surreal beauty. The book 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). Volunteeringas ambulance drivers, fire-fighters and ARP wardens, these were the successors to the soldier poets of the First World War. Lara Feigel interweaves letters, diaries and fiction with official civil defence records and reveals the haunting, ecstatic, often wrenching stories that triumphed amid the mess of a war-torn world. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.94 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST D4B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.