صاعقة كوڤنتري
صاعقة كوڤنتري (Coventry blitz من الحدثة 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.
الخلفية
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
أغسطس إلى أكتوبر 1940
14 نوفمبر 1940
أبريل 1941
الأعقاب
انظر أيضاً
- Die Luftwacht
- Operation Abigail Rachel
- صاعقة برمنگهام
الهامش
- ^ Taylor References, p. 117. (see also Area Bombardment#Aerial area bombardment and international law)
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). Chapterعشرة 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
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مشاع الفهم فيه ميديا متعلقة بموضوع Coventry Blitz. |
- David McGrory The Coventry Blitz CWN – News & Information for Coventry & Warwickshire
- David McGrory Photograph – City Centre
- Coventry Air Raids The Coventry Blitz Resource centre
- audiobook with archive recordings of Coventry Blitz
- A letter written in 1940 about witnessing the Coventry Blitz read aloud
نطقب:The Blitz
