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Автор Конни Уиллис

ALSO BY CONNIE WILLIS

Lincoln’s Dreams

Doomsday Book

Impossible Things

Uncharted Territory

Remake

Bellwether

Fire Watch

To Say Nothing of the Dog

Miracle and Other Christmas Stories

Passage

Blackout

All Clear is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Any resemblance to actual persons, living or

dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2010 by Connie Willis

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Spectra,

an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group,

a division of Random House, Inc. , New York.

SPECTRA and the portrayal of a boxed “s”

are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Willis, Connie.

All clear / Connie Willis.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-345-52269-6

1. Time travel—Fiction. 2. Historians—Fiction.

3.

World War, 1939–1945—England—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3573. I45652A79 2010

813′. 54—dc22 2010030197

v3. 1

TO ALL THE

ambulance drivers

firewatchers

air-raid wardens

nurses

canteen workers

airplane spotters

rescue workers

mathematicians

vicars

vergers

shopgirls

chorus girls

librarians

debutantes

spinsters

fishermen

retired sailors

servants

evacuees

Shakespearean actors

and mystery novelists

WHO WON THE WAR.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

—WINSTON CHURCHILL

CONTENTS

Cover

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgments

London—26 October 1940

London—7 May 1945

London—26 October 1940

Bethnal Green—June 1944

London—26 October 1940

Kent—April 1944

London—27 October 1940

London—November 1940

Kent—April 1944

Golders Green—July 1944

London—November 1940

Kent—April 1944

London—November 1940

London—November 1940

Oxford—April 2060

Bletchley—November 1940

Dulwich—Summer 1944

London—November 1940

Bletchley—December 1940

Dulwich—Summer 1944

London—December 1940

Oxford—April 2060

London—December 1940

Saltram-on-Sea—December 1940

London—December 1940

London—December 1940

London—29 December 1940

St. Paul’s Cathedral—29 December 1940

St. Paul’s Cathedral—29 December 1940

Ludgate Hill—29 December 1940

Blackfriars Tube Station—29 December 1940

St. Paul’s Cathedral—29 December 1940

The City—29 December 1940

St. Bartholomew’s Hospital—30 December 1940

St. Paul’s Cathedral—30 December 1940

Croydon—October 1944

London—Winter 1941

London—Winter 1941

Croydon

London—Winter 1941

London—7 May 1945

London—Winter 1941

London—Winter 1941

London—Winter 1941

London—Winter 1941

Kent—April 1944

Imperial War Museum, London—7 May 1995

Dover—April 1944

Imperial War Museum, London—7 May 1995

Wales—May 1944

London—Spring 1941

London—May 1944

London—Spring 1941

Imperial War Museum, London—7 May 1995

Kent—June 1944

Imperial War Museum, London—7 May 1995

Kent—October 1944

Kent—October 1944

London—Spring 1941

Croydon—October 1944

London—Spring 1941