Standing in his wrecked home, Henry Tandey watched his city burn and heard the screams of hundreds of men, women and children after an attack by 515 German bombers in wave after sickening wave ...

War hero Henry Tandey, ... Funeral manager James Hewison. ... Pte Tandey moved to Coventry after leaving the army in 1926 and died in the city in 1977, aged 86.

Henry Tandey became the most decorated private soldier in World War One. His bravery though, would be eclipsed in the run up to World War Two by allegations he had spared Adolf Hitler's life, in 1918.

The Man Who Didn’t Shoot Hitler (The Story of Henry Tandey VC and Adolf Hitler, 1918) by David Johnson (The History Press, £9.99 paperback). Story Saved You can find this story in My Bookmarks.