
Coventry
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That long night of destruction marked a critical moment in the Second World War. It heralded a new kind of air warfare, one which abandoned the pursuit of immediate military goals and instead focused on obliterating all aspects of city life. It also provided the push America needed to join Britain in the war. But while the Coventry raid was furiously condemned publically, such effective enemy tactics provided Britain's politicians and military establishment with a 'blueprint for obliteration', to be adapted and turned against Germany. A merciless four-year war of attrition had begun.
In this important work of history Frederick Taylor draws upon numerous sources, including eye witness interviews from the archives of the BBC which are published here for the first time, to reveal the true repercussions of the bombing of Coventry in 1940. He teases out the truth behind the persistent rumours and conspiracy theories that Churchill knew the raid was coming, assesses this significant turning point in modern warfare, looks at how it affected Britain's status in the war, and considers finally whether this attack really could provide justification for the horror of Dresden, 1945.
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- Cover
- A Note on the Author
- Title
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 Wool, Buttons and Magnetos
- 2 'The bomber will always get through'
- 3 Boom
- 4 Waiting for the Luftwaffe
- 5 Blitz
- 6 Raiders
- 7 Knickebein
- 8 Korn
- 9 Finding the Beam
- 10 Red Alert
- 11 Executive Cold Water
- 12 'A seething mass of flame'
- 13 Death in the Suburbs
- 14 The Long Night Ending
- 15 The Martyred City
- 16 'Are we down-hearted?'
- 17 The Quick and the Dead
- 18 Coventrated?
- 19 Defiance
- 20 'Thank goodness you're alright'
- 21 Resurgam
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Series
- Index
- Copyright
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