Coventry at War: The Blitz - Eyewitness Accounts of Britain's Most Devastating WW2 Night Raid

Historian Ronald Fairfax presents this powerful documentary featuring firsthand accounts from Coventry residents who lived through the devastating Luftwaffe raid of November 14, 1940.

Through extensive interviews with survivors, Fairfax chronicles how Nazi Germany's experimental "firestorm" tactics transformed a thriving industrial city into an inferno in a single night.

The documentary explores Coventry's crucial wartime role producing aircraft engines, munitions, and vehicles that powered Britain's war effort, making it an inevitable target. Survivors describe the ten-hour bombardment that killed 555 people, destroyed the medieval cathedral, and introduced a new word to the English language: "to Coventrate" - meaning to utterly destroy by aerial bombing.

Fairfax examines how ordinary people - factory workers, firefighters, nurses, and children - endured repeated raids and rebuilt their lives from the ruins. A sobering reminder of civilian resilience during total war.

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