ABSTRACT
In the late 1930s and early 1940s the people of Europe were struggling to comprehend the implications of a fragmented and decimated urban landscape that was being brought into existence by aerial bombardment. Among them was Graham Greene who was moved to describe what he saw as a 'diseased erratic world' in his October 1940 essay 'At Home'.1 This pessimistic disillusionment would have resonated with the other stunned sufferers of the Blitz. Greene goes on to speculate that this apocalyptic action could be one of the last of a society the morality of which is founded on violence.
