For example, “Together they went into the kitchen to listen to the announcement. Statement from the Home Office, at 11 A.M. Radio reports were infamous during the Blitz and the Battle of Britain and these reports gave information on the impending attacks. Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore.” The reference to crossing the sea refers to the Nazi’s crossing the English channel.Īnother example in the novelette that references WWII is the use of the radio. For example, “In autumn great flocks of them came to the peninsula, restless, uneasy, spending themselves in motion now wheeling, circling the sky now settling to feed on the rich, new-turned soil but even when they fed, it was as though they did so without hunger, without desire.Restlessness drove them to the skies again. In the short story the birds launch strategically and in vast numbers much like the Nazi’s did during these battles.
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