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    The Coventry Blitz (blitz: from the German word Blitzkrieg meaning "lightning war" listen) was a series of bombing raids that took place on the British...
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    Life" is set in Coventry during the blitz and in the post-war rebuilding period. The playwright Alan Pollock was brought up in Coventry. Other playwrights...
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  • Coventry City Football Club (commonly known as simply Coventry) is a professional football club based in Coventry, West Midlands, England. The club plays...
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    of the Diocese of Coventry. This St Michael's Cathedral now stands ruined, bombed almost to destruction during the Coventry Blitz of 14 November 1940...
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    the Second Sino-Japanese War. London, Coventry, and many other British cities were firebombed during the Blitz by Nazi Germany. Most large German cities...
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  • Wings Over Georgia. Goodall Publications Ltd. 1989 p. 31 "Coventry's Blitz". Historic Coventry. Retrieved 11 April 2012. "UK Airfields & Airports". Retrieved...
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    Alfred Robert Grindlay (category Mayors of Coventry)
    engineering company and was Mayor of Coventry during WWII and the Coventry Blitz. Grindlay was born in Coventry, England, in 1876, the fifth child of...
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    University Press, 1987), pages 3 and 12 Coventry Air Raids Archived 17 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, The Coventry Blitz Resource centre. Boobbyer, Philip...
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    The Blitz Nazi-Germany's Coventry Blitz set a benchmark for destruction that caused Joseph Goebbels to later use the term coventriert ("coventried") to...
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    The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term was first used by the British...
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