Not P but Orwell & a V-1. This is about ANIMAL FARM.

[Mark Kohut]

In 1944 the manuscript was almost lost when a German V-1 flying bomb
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb> destroyed his London home.
Orwell spent hours sifting through the rubble to find the pages intact.[47]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#cite_note-50>