A new play, which premiered at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, says so. The play, One Night In November, claims that the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, knew several days in advance that the ...

But not this time. Scroll down for more Winston Churchill: Did he know the Germans were going to bomb Coventry? Handorf turned and caught sight of his navigator poring over a street map ¿ of ...

In his book The Ultra Secret, the former World War II intelligence officer FW Winterbotham recalled how he passed intelligence on to Churchill that Coventry would be the target of the bombing raid ...

As for Stephenson, he claimed to have actually convinced Churchill not to warn Coventry’s residents because it would compromise Ultra. Other writers have more or less confirmed these claims ...

He further claimed Winston Churchill ordered that no defensive measures should be taken to protect Coventry, lest the Germans suspect that their cipher had been broken. Winterbotham was a key ...

This was the accusation thrown at military leaders after the night of November 14, 1940, which saw Coventry destroyed by wave after wave of Nazi air strikes. But did Winston Churchill and army ...

Today, controversy still exists over whether Coventry was deliberately sacrificed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill to win a bigger victory. The theory is that the government did not want the ...

Did Winston Churchill, nervous about the Germans discovering that U.K. cypher-crackers had broken their Enigma codes, fail to act on intelligence warning of a Luftwaffe raid against Coventry in ...

I don't even know where Coventry is. And secondly, I've never played with explosives.' He said, 'Not you. Your great-grandfather.' I said, 'Who?' He said, 'Winston Churchill.' I said, 'Oh ...

Graham Sutherland designed the piece for the new cathedral following the destruction of Coventry during the blitz. He also famously created a painting of Winston Churchill. But the wartime Prime ...

It's 70 years since Germany launched one of the most devastating bombing raids of World War II, on Coventry. But did Winston Churchill have prior warning of the attack? It has been claimed in a ...