As the tide of the Second World War slowly began to turn against Germany the frustrated Führer was out for revenge, ordering his air force to attack cultural targets and civilian centres. Henchman ...

Jackie Litherland was right (Letters, 12 October) to suggest that Hitler was sensitive to the RAF bombing of German cities, and had in fact already ordered at least one revenge raid, which was so ...

In the Blitz of 1940–1, the Germans had already hit the House of Commons and plenty of historic churches around the country. The first Baedeker raid hit Exeter on April 23 1942. It was a failure, ...

We've all heard about the Blitzes that British cities endured during World War II. Places like Coventry, Birmingham, London, Glasgow, Plymouth and Liverpool were all relentlessly pounded by the ...

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Even its most ardent defenders would struggle to claim that Coventry is a beautiful city. Despite efforts in recent years to spruce the place up, it is still seen by many as an expanse of gloomy ...

In 1942 Hitler launched the Baedeker Raids. The Luftwaffe wanted to destroy picture postcard Britain and so bombed towns and cities with high cultural value that had been written about in the famous ...

Luftwaffe veteran Willi Schludecker, 88, flew scores of missions over the UK during the 'Baedeker Blitz' of 1942. Earlier this year the remorseful pilot visited Bath for a memorial service to ...