The Blitzed City : The Destruction of Coventry 1940.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farrington, Karen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bombing, Aerial.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Quarto Publishing Group UK, 2015.

Summary:

The Luftwaffe's targetting and destruction of Coventry city remains the biggest and most destructive air raid on British soil during the Second World War. Now, for the very first time we interview those veterans who survived the raid and helped fight the flames and bombs to tell the story of this iconic event.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Author's Note

Prologue

Introduction

Chapter One 'The bomber will always get through'

Chapter Two 'Sent to Coventry'

Chapter Three 'The unbearable fetid smell of burned objects and the dust from crushed concrete made it difficult to breathe.'

Chapter Four 'Calling all workers'

Chapter Five 'Trying to hit a flying pheasant on a dark night with a rifle'

Chapter Six 'We didn't bother if we lived or died, so you can just imagine how we felt.'

Chapter Seven 'The yellow and purple colours of the flames were just like crocuses'

Chapter Eight 'With such continuous fire we had visions of running out of ammunition'

Chapter Nine 'It was as if all hell [had been] let loose that night'

Chapter Ten 'A city of the dead'

Chapter Eleven 'Our men without exception behaved like heroes'

Chapter Twelve 'Surely another war will destroy civilisation'

Chapter Thirteen 'They sowed the wind and now they must reap the whirlwind'

Conclusion

Epilogue

The Coventry Blitz in Numbers

Bibliography and Further Information

Index

Illustrations

Copyright.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781781314807

1781314802

OCLC:

1293247067