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The Birds (story)
"The Birds" is a novelette by British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection ''The Apple Tree''. It is the story of a farmhand, his family, and his community that are attacked by flocks of birds and seabirds in ''kamikaze'' missions. The story is set in du Maurier's native Cornwall shortly after the end of the Second World War. By the end of the story it has become clear that all of Britain is under aerial assault.
The story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's film ''The Birds'', released in 1963, the same year that ''The Apple Tree'' was reprinted as ''The Birds and Other Stories''. In 2009, Irish playwright Conor McPherson adapted the story for the stage at Dublin's Gate Theatre.
==Background==
The author saw a man plowing a field while seagulls were wheeling and diving above him and composed a story of these birds growing hostile and attacking. The east wind is implicated in the birds' attack – a reference to the threat to England of Soviet and Chinese Communism and to the Cold War fought between East and West beginning towards the end of the 1940s.
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