Hugh Cecil

From void to void, with time to kill

Just as the slaughter in the trenches of Flanders and northern France gave birth to the tragic verses of Wilfred Owen, so the experience of bombing and being bombed between 1940 and 1945 generated its own major poetry in Britain and the USA.

  • Bomber County: The Lost Airmen of World War Two

    Daniel Swift

    Hamish Hamilton, pp. 269

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