Bomber County - Hardcover

Swift, Daniel

 
9780241144176: Bomber County
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0241144175 ISBN 13: 9780241144176
Verlag: Hamish Hamilton, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with 83 Squadron of the Royal Air Force, boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on Münster and disappeared.

Aerial bombardment was to the Second World War what the trenches were to the First: a shocking and new form of warfare, wretched and unexpected, and carried out at a terrible scale of loss. Just as the trenches produced the most remarkable poetry of the First World War, so too did the bombing campaigns foster a haunting set of poems during the Second.

In researching the life of his grandfather, Daniel Swift became engrossed in the connections between air war and poetry. Ostensibly a narrative of the author's search for his lost grandfather through military and civilian archives and in interviews conducted in the Netherlands, Germany and England, Bomber County is also an examination of the relationship between the bombing campaigns of the Second World War and poetry, an investigation into the experience of bombing and being bombed, and a powerful reckoning with the morals and literature of a vanished moment.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel Swift was born in 1977. His essays, profiles and reviews have appeared in the Financial Times magazine, the New York Times Book Review and the Daily Telegraph, and he teaches in the Department of English Literature at Skidmore College in upstate New York. This is his first book.

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Verlag
Hamish Hamilton
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241144175
ISBN 13 
9780241144176
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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