Coventry
Subtitle: November 14, 1940
By: Frederick Taylor
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781632861979
Subjects: German Aerial operations; World War, 1939-1945; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-339) and index.
Table of contents: title: Wool, buttons, and magnetos; title: 'The bomber will always get through'; title: Boom; title: Waiting for the Luftwaffe; title: Blitz; title: Raiders; title: Knickebein; title: Korn; title: Finding the beam; title: Red alert; title: Executive cold water; title: 'A seething mass of flame'; title: Death in the suburbs; title: The long night ending; title: The martyred city; title: 'Are we down-hearted?'; title: The quick and the dead; title: Coventrated?; title: Defiance; title: 'Thank goodness you're alright'; title: Resurgam.