Bomber County: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot's War

With the opening line of Bomber County, "The beach where the body washed up," the reader is confronted with the heavy toll of war as the author reveals with haunting intimacy that his grandfather vanished off the coast of Holland after a night raid on Muenster on 11 June 1943. In his research, Swift, along with his father, accessed the lost pilot grandfather's logbooks, attended his old squadron's reunions, examined RAF and British government documents, and German wartime records kept by the cities his father had participated in bombing.