It is often said that a writer’s inspiration can come from anywhere, but 75 years ago the muse was to be found falling from the bomb bays of an armada of American bombers. What is perhaps even more unusual is that such an occurrence was also the wellspring for both an inspired defence of Catholic monastic life and a classic work of literary science fiction.
Walter M Miller had a somewhat unique perspective on monastic life, gained as it was from the rear gun turret of a B-25 on a bright February morning in 1944.
