Wartime Bombing Decoys in Wales

by Ivor Jones

Ivor Jones' new book vividly describes the cunning nighttime decoys which saved Cardiff, and indeed Wales itself, from German bombings during the Second World War.

By distorting what the German bombers could see from the air, the Ministry of Home Security was successful in averting hundreds and thousands of bombs from residential areas of the country. False 'lights' were created to mislead German bombers in search of targets; during the blackout,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781552339
• ISBN13: 9781781552339
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Fonthill Media
• Length: 224 Pages