Bomber County
Daniel Swift
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Description
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 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.
Product Details
Price
$19.00
$17.67
Publisher
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Publish Date
August 30, 2011
Pages
304
Dimensions
5.57 X 8.21 X 0.79 inches | 0.61 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780374533038
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Daniel Swift teaches at the New College of the Humanities in London. His first book, Bomber County, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Guardian First Book award, and his essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the New Statesman, and Harper's.
Reviews
"With its inherent tension and quiet moments of deliberation, the subject of bombing is well-suited to the literary memoir, and Swift renders a potentially narrow slice of history with warmth and sophistication. " - Publishers Weekly