Operation Sea Lion: Hitler's Plot to Invade England By Peter Fleming
Operation Sea Lion: Hitler's Plot to Invade England By Peter Fleming
Softcover
ISBN 9781848856998
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks 2011
Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some slight/limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.
On July sixteenth, 1940, Hitler issued Directive No. 16, setting in motion Operation Sea Lionhis plan to invade England. The success of Operation Sea Lion hinged entirely on the destruction of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy. Yet even as Hitlers plans swung into action, England rallied her defences, the Battle of Britain began, and in just a few months Germany had lost all hope of dominating Englands skies, and with it the key to the invasion. In September 1940, Hitler postponed Operation Sea Lion indefinitely and the entire episode faded from memory. It would be another 17 years before Peter Fleming rescued the story from military archives and, together with the recollections of those involved, pieced together the dramatic preparations for what could have been one of the most significant and potentially world-changing battles in history.
