Malcolm Gladwell on Len Deighton’s 1970 novel, which captured the aerial devastation of World War II.
Brittain was referring to the decision during the Second World War by Arthur Harris, head of the Royal Air Force’s Bomber Command, to send hundreds of planes, night after night, to bomb the residential neighborhoods of German cities. Harris was resolutely unsentimental about his decision.
is very much a war novel. In its depictions of the mechanics of aerial combat and military aviation, it is as meticulous and detailed as a work of history. “Bomber”Share this article“Bomber” is first-class mid-century realism. Deighton sets up his story slowly and carefully. One half of the novel is set at an air force base in England, the other half set in a German town that lies in the path of one of Harris’s bombing runs.
was help us imagine the human tragedy that comes out of error, incompetence and over-reach. Vera Brittain would have been proud.
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