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.

British Military History, Rob Palmer

What a super book! There have been many written on the subject of the blitz on Coventry, but this one by Gerry van Tonder comes from another angle and is refreshingly different. We're treated to a "bombing map" showing the concentration of the German bombardment, and I like the way the photos combine old and new shots to give context for the modern day reader who would've been unaware of the location of many of the older photos in isolation. Altogether this is a book that adds to our knowledge of the past and is well worth a read by anyone with an interest either in Coventry's history, or indeed the Second World War itself.

Robert Orland