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It is shame about the photographs, but that should not distract the reader from the text in the book. There are six chapters, preceded by a useful timeline. The first chapter examines ‘Why Coventry’, and charts the industrial heritage of this city. Being a local historian, this provides an interesting overview of nature of industry in the city, its links to the war economy, and why the city was targeted by the German air force during the Second World War. The second chapter looks at the nature and strength of the German air force attacking the U.K. in the period from 1939 until 1943. Chapter 3 is called ‘Prelude’ and describes the early air raids. The fourth chapter covers the main raid, codenamed ‘Moonlight Sonata’, that occurred in November 1940. The next chapter deals with another raid in April 1941, and the last chapter charts the redevelopment of the city after the Second World War.
All six chapters include personal stories of those people caught up in the various attacks, and are a powerful testament to the indiscriminate effect of bombing of towns and cities in war time. The use of area bombing by all the main nations involved in the Second World War remains a controversial issue. This book does not touch on the political aspects, but provides a very useful commentary on the subject in relation to one city, and the people who lived and worked there. Two websites that complement this book, and readers may find interesting are:
https://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/blitz/blitz.php?pg=blitz
https://www.familyresearcher.co.uk/Blitz-Victims/Coventry-Blitz-Resource-Centre....