The Blitz in Wartime Narratives by Elizabeth Bowen, Agatha Christie and Henry Green

During World War two, specifically between September 1940 and May 1941, Britain was hit by numerous nocturnal bombings, known as the Blitz, that radically changed and altered many lives, especially of those who lived in big cities like London. Carried out by Hitler’s Nazi Germany, these bombings created a sense of terror and insecurity that, along plenty of other topics, can be reflected in the novels set and written during these years. In these works that will be analysed, namely Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day, Agatha Christie’s N or M? and Henry Green’s Caught, a landscape of ruins, fires, destruction and of a general sense of insecurity about the future is the background for these novels, great works of three immensely skilled authors, who, in their own way and style, manage to catapult the reader in a world which left a mark on all those who had to live through it.