The Love-Charm of Bombs (2013)
“She had been longing to go since the end of the war. On a brief visit to London after VE Day, Peter had brought her a branch of jasmine from the Mirabell park in Salzburg which brought tears to her eyes. After the death of her father her homesickness became stronger than ever. It was time to go home.
Hilde had spent the autumn of 1945 envying Peter’s excitement at his life on the Continent, where history was being made and the future of Europe was being worked out. She now wanted to be there to...o, although she was reluctant to give up her hard-won Englishness. In November she met the French novelist and Resistance hero André Chamson, who had recently arrived in London. He complained about the English, and specifically about their indifference to sex and pretty women. Although she was inclined to agree with Chamson, Hilde now realised how glad she was to have been accepted in the English world. She thought that there was a nobility in English reticence which Chamson had missed. And she told Peter that she had no doubt where civilisation had reached its peak.MoreLess
Hilde had spent the autumn of 1945 envying Peter’s excitement at his life on the Continent, where history was being made and the future of Europe was being worked out. She now wanted to be there to...o, although she was reluctant to give up her hard-won Englishness. In November she met the French novelist and Resistance hero André Chamson, who had recently arrived in London. He complained about the English, and specifically about their indifference to sex and pretty women. Although she was inclined to agree with Chamson, Hilde now realised how glad she was to have been accepted in the English world. She thought that there was a nobility in English reticence which Chamson had missed. And she told Peter that she had no doubt where civilisation had reached its peak.MoreLess
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