‘The Front Line’: Firefighting in British Culture, 1939–1945

Abstract

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Women at War in the Prose of Contemporary British Women Writers

“…Образ города, который бомбят фашисты, образ горящего города встречается во многих произведениях литературы писателейочевидцев событий войны [см. : Robb 2015] и в современной исторической прозе. Другим популярным мотивом британской прозы о войне стал образ города, лежащего в руинах.…”