Send more shrouds : the V1 attack on the Guards' Chapel, 1944
Gore, Jan2017
Books, Manuscripts
On Sunday the 18th of June 1944, the congregation assembled for morning service in the Guards' Chapel in Wellington Barracks in central London. The service started at 11 am. Lord Hay had read the first lesson, and the 'Te Deum' was about to begin, when the noise of a V1 was heard. The engine cut out. There was a brief silence, 'an intensive blue flash' and an explosion - and the roof collapsed, burying the congregation in ten feet of rubble. This was the most deadly V1 attack of the Second World War, and Jan Gore's painstakingly researched, graphic and moving account of the bombing and the aftermath tells the whole story.
Main title:
Author:
Gore, Jan, author
Imprint:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2017.
Collation:
xiv, 188 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781473851474 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.542121940.5421
LC class:
D760.8.L7
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1892162