Listening with Rebecca West (1892-1983) – Disquiet

Listening with Rebecca West (1892-1983)

Overheard overhead

Yes, I am enjoying, greatly, Rebecca West’s 1918 novel The Return of the Soldier. I don’t think I’ve read previously a contemporaneous account of what zeppelins sounded like to those for whom an appearance overhead was a not uncommon occurrence. (West is the pen name of the late Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield. She and H.G. Wells were the parents of author Anthony West.)

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