By mid-June 1940 Hitler´s forces were deployed triumphantly along France´s Channel coast, seemingly poised to extend their campaigns of conquest across the narrow seas into Britain. Everyone remembers D-Day 1944, so it is hard to believe that in the summer of 1940 neither Germany nor any other nation had any experience of large amphibious operations. In scarcely tow month Germany assembled an invasion force of 4.000 vessels, pioneered new landing techniques and involved developing numerous types of specialised landing craft. Operation Sealion, the planned invasion of Great Britain, never took place because of the "Battle of Britain" in the air and Hitlers invasion plans for Russia, but Peter Schenk´s absorbing detailed account provides answers to the crucial question: could it have worked?
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Schenk, Peter
Title
Operation Sealion
Details
English text, 150 bw-illustrations. 326 pages.
State
new
Greenhill Books 83 Bedford Rd London N2 9DB Vereinigtes Königreich
