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Bomber Crew - Taking On the Reich (Paperback, New ed)
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Bomber Crew - Taking On the Reich (Paperback, New ed)
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Munby is difficult to validate on any terms; those of the
publisher's expectations for this voluminous selection from the
diaries Derek Hudson excerpted from deed boxes at Trinity College
along with his commentary; those of editor Hudson's hopes or
contentions - that Munby "anticipated a century of progress" and
helped to thwart "the apartheid of class and sex"; or those of the
general reader unless he is particularly interested in one of the
stranger fruits of the Victorian era. Actually Munby, a minor poet
and artist and Latin teacher with an active social life - sometimes
including acquaintance with Rossetti and Ruskin and even Henry
James - was a very epicene figure. Lewis Carroll had his little
girls; Munby had his "compassionate"(?) collector's interest in
women of the lower classes. A fetishist, his eye was always caught
by large or reddened or grimy hands and there seems to have been
some sort of inverse snobbery as well as sexuality in his salvific
sponsorship of "honest hard work and the absence of false shame in
speaking of it. . . ." It will all come together in his long
relationship with one Hannah, at first his daily ("Poor child" with
her "artless tender simplicity") whom after more than eighteen
years he married although the relationship continues to be as
covert (he had to maintain its "security aspect"?) and dualistic:
it is not known whether he ever took her to bed; often she is still
happily cleaning his fireplace; sometimes in the evening she can
look like a lady without her mopcap. Although Hudson does refer to
the "benign perversity" in Munby, he finds him far more chivalric
than others are likely to do even if Hannah apparently happily
collaborated, calling him "Massa" and reminding Americans, whom
Munby found vulgar, of other less wholesome shades of serfdom. At
best he's another anomaly of that great age of prurient virtue.
(Kirkus Reviews)
During the Second World War aeronautical technology gathered rapid
pace. By 1945, bombers had not only greatly increased in engine
power and range, but the bombs which they carried rose from 250lbs
to 10 tons; the navigator's pencil and rubber of 1939 had been
supplemented by infinitely more sophisticated electronic aids. Yet
the success or failure of each and every bomber still depended
entirely on the efficiency of every member of the crew at his
individual position, the interaction and co-operation of all crew
members as a body. One member of 617 squadron graphically explained
that 'every time we went out, it was seven men against the
Reich'.;Drawing on letters, journals and diaries, John Sweetman
examines the lives the bomber crews lived, from the highs and lows
of their missions to the complexities of their friendships and the
impact their place in the war had on the families and loved ones
they left behind. Part collective biography, part military history,
part social history: this will remain the definitive account of the
bomber crews of the Second World War for years to come.
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