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In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with the 83rd Squadron of the Royal Air Force, boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on Münster and disappeared. Widespread aerial bombardment was to the Second World War what the trenches were to the First: a shocking and new form of... read more
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Setting & Locations edit
- London
- Germany
- England
- Wellington
- Munster
- Cologne
- Wyton
- Hamburg
- Berlin
- Europe
- Bassingbourn
- Bomber County
- Most Beautiful City
- Dusseldorf
- France
- Britain
- Pacific
- Saipan
- Dresden
- Duisburg
- New York
- East Kirkby
- America
- Feltwell
- Wales
- Wuppertal
- Essen
- Brest
- Hampstead
- Netherlands
- Japan
- Hornsey
- United States
- Brussels
First Sentence edit
After the air raid, Virginia Woolf went for a walk.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue: A Refusal to Mourn
1. Five Minutes After the Air Raid
2. It was Not Dying
3. B is for Bombers
4. England and Nowhere
5. The Most Beautiful City in the World
6. The Sadness of Soldiers
7. Bomber Poets
Authors & Contributors edit
- Daniel Swift (Author)
Awards edit
- Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (2010: Nonfiction)
- Samuel Johnson Prize (2011: Non-Fiction, Longlist)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 821.914093584053
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