Swansea suffered heavily in the Second World War, its docks and industries being important targets for Hitler's Luftwaffe. Its town centre was devastated over three consecutive nights of bombing during February 1941 and no town or city in Wales suffered more deaths than Swansea as a result of enemy air raids.
This wide-ranging account describes how its townspeople coped with the deadly bombing attacks and how the town was turned into a veritable fortress in preparation for a possible Nazi invasion. Conscription, conscientious objection, wartime crime, rationing, salvage campaigns, the evacuation of the town's children and the arrival of American forces are all outlined in this fascinating account of life on the Home Front in Swansea.
