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Coventry : November 14, 1940 / Frederick Taylor.
Van Pelt Library D760.8.C6 T39 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Fred, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--England--Coventry.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, German.
- Coventry (England)--History.
- Coventry (England).
- Military operations, Aerial--German.
- England--Coventry.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- Examines the German Luftwaffe's air raid on Coventry, England, on November 14, 1940, and its impact and precedent as a new kind of air warfare.
- Contents:
- Wool, buttons, and magnetos
- 'The bomber will always get through'
- Boom
- Waiting for the Luftwaffe
- Blitz
- Raiders
- Knickebein
- Korn
- Finding the beam
- Red alert
- Executive cold water
- 'A seething mass of flame'
- Death in the suburbs
- The long night ending
- The martyred city
- 'Are we down-hearted?'
- The quick and the dead
- Coventrated?
- Defiance
- 'Thank goodness you're alright'
- Resurgam.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-339) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781632861979
- 1632861976
- OCLC:
- 898419315
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