{"product_id":"love-charms-of-bombs-h-b-z44","title":"Lara Feigel: The Love-charm of Bombs [2013] hardback","description":"'The nightly routine of sirens, barrage, the probing raider, the unmistakable engine (\"Where are you?  Where are you?  Where are you?\"), the bomb-bursts moving nearer and then moving away, hold one like a love-charm' Graham Greene\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.","brand":"Feigel, Lara","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42042888192185,"sku":"9781408830444","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/feigel-lara-lara-feigel-the-love-charm-of-bombs-2013-hardback-9781408830444-60084283605331.jpg?v=1731820278","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/love-charms-of-bombs-h-b-z44","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}