صاعقة كوڤنتري

صاعقة كوڤنتري (Coventry blitz من الكلمة الألمانية Blitzkrieg وتعني "الحرب الصاعقة"listen ) was a series of bombing raids that took place in the English city of Coventry. The city was bombed many times during the Second World War by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe). The most devastating of these attacks occurred on the evening of 14 November 1940.

Winston Churchill visiting the ruins of Coventry Cathedral in September 1941

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 الخلفية

Broadgate, Coventry in 1917

At the start of the Second World War, Coventry was an industrial city of around 238,000 people which, like much of the industrial West Midlands, contained metal-working industries. In Coventry's case, these included cars, bicycles, aeroplane engines and, since 1900, munitions factories. In the words of the historian Frederick Taylor, "Coventry ... was therefore, in terms of what little law existed on the subject, a legitimate target for aerial bombing".

 الغارات الجوية

 14 نوفمبر 1940

كاتدرائية كوڤنتري, in ruins after the Luftwaffe air raid.

The city centre following the 14 November air raid

 أبريل 1941

Children searching for books among the ruins of their school after the April raid.

 الأعقاب

The ruins of the old Coventry Cathedral, the most visible modern-day reminder of the Blitz

 انظر أيضاً

• Die Luftwacht
• Operation Abigail Rachel
• صاعقة برمنگهام

 المراجع

• Taylor, Frederick; Dresden Tuesday 13 February 1945; Bloomsbury, First Pub 2004 (ISBN 0-7475-7078-7), used as a reference in this article: paper back 2005 (ISBN 0-7475-7084-1). Chapter 10 Blitz

 للاستزادة

• Peter Calvocoressi, Top Secret Ultra, includes an account of the Coventry Raid, and the actual cryptanalytic intelligence available before the raid.

 وصلات خارجية

• David McGrory The Coventry Blitz CWN – News & Information for Coventry & Warwickshire
• David McGrory Photograph – City Centre
• Coventry Air Raids The Coventry Blitz Resource centre
• The Blitz audiobook with archive recordings of Coventry Blitz
• A letter written in 1940 about witnessing the Coventry Blitz read aloud