Coventry Cathedral in November 1940 after the devastating raid on the fourteenth. The debacle of Dunkirk had been a mere six months earlier, the Battle of Britain a close-run fight to survive.

This week (Nov. 14) in 1940, one of the most famous bombing raids in all of World War II occurred when German bombers flew repeated sorties over the British city ...

It's 70 years since Germany launched one of the most devastating bombing raids, but did Winston Churchill have prior warning of the attack? Did Winston Churchill deliberately sacrifice Coventry ...

Some believe Coventry was deliberately sacrificed by Churchill to win more support in the war They dropped more than 10,000 incendiary bombs which set off over 200 fires.

They knew. They knew the German bombers were coming and did nothing. This was the accusation thrown at military leaders after the night of November 14, 1940, which saw Coventry destroyed by wave ...

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 ...

Coventry Cathedral artist who painted Churchill portrait that was secretly burnt gets blue plaque. ... a preparatory sketch of Churchill by Sutherland fetched £660,000 at a Sotheby's auction.

It was the last state funeral in the UK for a non-royal - Sir Winston Churchill had died on January 24, 1965, and after a ceremony in St Paul's Cathedral, with a full cortege through London, he ...