![]() ![]() The pledge he makes if he survives the war is simply to be kind it is his experience in the war that Teddy spends the rest of his life trying to put into perspective.Īs the novel starts, it wants for a narrative centre. On his final tour he is shot down, taken as a prisoner of war and assumed dead. The air raids, he tells us poetically, are "Birds thrown against a wall, in the hope that eventually if there were enough birds, they would break that wall". The scenes during Teddy's air raids are excruciatingly vivid and tense, accounting for the novel's dramatic force.ĭespite the carnage, Teddy volunteers for a third tour, considering it his moral duty. ![]() He prides himself on remembering the names of his crew, despite the high turnover, and drills them for emergency landings, which, along with luck, accounts for his miraculous survival. ![]()
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