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 its houses being destroyed. In this book, author Nick Cooper examines the air raids on Hull, the industries and infrastructure the raids targeted,...