Daniel Swift has written for Bookforum, The New York Times Book Review, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of Bomber County: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot's War.
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In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with the 83rd Squadron of the Royal Air Force, boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on Münster and...