Invasion!: Operation Sea Lion, 1940

by Evans,Martin Marix

• ISBN13: 9780582772946
• ISBN10: 058277294X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-09-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

It's the summer of 1940 and the Nazis have crossed the English Channel to invade Britain. They advance North from the South coast and great swathes of Southern England come under German control. Fiction, of course, but an invasion of Britain was planned by Hitler to take place in the summer of 1940 - how far would the Germans have been able to advance? Would they have been successful? Huge appeal of hypothetical scenarios Reproduction of original German maps and briefing materials for the first time Detailed information on the anti-invasion measures taken in Britain and records of actual installations still in existence No comprehensive books have been published on it for over a decade Contemporary photos of relevant places add to the local history appeal.

Author Biography

Martin Marix Evans has researched and written on the Second Boer (South African) War, the First World War and the invasion of France and the Low Countries in 1940

Table of Contents

List of figures	vi
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	x
PART 1 1 September 1939 to 15 September 1940: History	1	(164)
The fall of Norway and France	3	(53)
The defence of Britain	56	(24)
Planning Sealion	80	(33)
The gathering force	113	(25)
Controlling the sea and the sky	138	(10)
Assessing the terrain and the defences	148	(17)
PART 2 9 September 1940 to 29 September 1940: Conjecture	165	(97)
The invasion of England: introduction	167	(6)
Landing Area B -- Hythe to Dungeness	173	(18)
Landing Area C -- Rye Bay	191	(13)
Landing Area D -- Pevensey Bay	204	(10)
Landing Area E -- Rottingdean to Cuckmerehaven	214	(14)
The British reaction	228	(8)
The final round	236	(26)
Appendix	262	(2)
Sources	264	(6)
Index	270