CONTAINING: The DECAPITATED LORD: MEDIEVAL SLAUGHTER at the castle! YELLOWS VS BLUES: Coventry's most violent elections revealed! KINGS, REBELLIONS and RIOTERS! CIVIL WAR comes to the city! BOILED in BEER! BAKED in HIS OVEN! The most dreadful CHRISTMAS CALAMITIES in COVENTRY'S HISTORY are inside!Coventry has one of the darkest histories on record. With sieges, battles, crimes, riots, disasters, all-out attempts at demolition and some truly dreadful punishments to boot, you'll never see the city in the same way again. David McGrory is Coventry's best-known historian. His previous titles include Coventry Then & Now, Haunted Coventry and Coventry at War.