{"product_id":"bomber-county-9780374533038","title":"Bomber County: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot's War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWidespread 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eBomber County\u003c\/i\u003e is also an examination of the relationship between the bombing campaigns of World War II 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Swift \u003c\/b\u003eteaches at the New College of the Humanities in London. His first book, \u003ci\u003eBomber County\u003c\/i\u003e, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Guardian First Book award, and his essays and reviews have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323819823378,"sku":"9780374533038","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_362c108b-64ca-49bd-b5ec-8a8d66f57419.jpg?v=1727661538","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bomber-county-9780374533038","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}