Bomber County - by Daniel Swift (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p>In researching the life of his grandfather, Daniel Swift became engrossed with 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, <i>Bomber County</i> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"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. " - <i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Daniel Swift</b> has written for <i>Bookforum</i>, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>, and <i>The Times Literary Supplement</i>.</p>
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