City on Fire: Kingston Upon Hull 1939-45

by Nick Cooper

During the Second World War Hull spent more than 1,000 hours under air-raid alerts and was the target of the first daylight raid of the war and the last piloted air raid on Britain. The city was vulnerable because it was a port and industrial centre close to mainland Europe and situated on an estuary, which made it easy to find. The result of this was that Hull was the most severely damaged town or city in the country during the war, 95 per cent of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445672049
• ISBN13: 9781445672045
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.1"