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- English
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About this book
This "immaculately researched and compellingly written" WWII history sheds new light on Britain's critical victory against Nazi invasion (
The New Criterion).
In the summer of 1940, the Nazi war machine was at its zenith. France, Denmark, Norway, and the Low Countries were all under occupation. Only Britain stood in the way of the complete triumph, and Hitler planned a two-pronged offensive?a blistering aerial bombardment followed by a land invasion?to subdue his final enemy. But for the first time in the war, Hitler did not prevail.
As Leo McKinstry details in this fascinating new history, the British were far more ruthless and proficient than is usually recognized. The brilliance of the RAF in the Battle of Britain was not an exception but part of a pattern of magnificent organization that thwarted Hitler's armies at every turn. Using a wealth of archival and primary source materials, Leo McKinstry provides a groundbreaking new assessment of the six fateful months in mid-1940 when Operation Sea Lion was all that stood between the Nazis and total victory.
In the summer of 1940, the Nazi war machine was at its zenith. France, Denmark, Norway, and the Low Countries were all under occupation. Only Britain stood in the way of the complete triumph, and Hitler planned a two-pronged offensive?a blistering aerial bombardment followed by a land invasion?to subdue his final enemy. But for the first time in the war, Hitler did not prevail.
As Leo McKinstry details in this fascinating new history, the British were far more ruthless and proficient than is usually recognized. The brilliance of the RAF in the Battle of Britain was not an exception but part of a pattern of magnificent organization that thwarted Hitler's armies at every turn. Using a wealth of archival and primary source materials, Leo McKinstry provides a groundbreaking new assessment of the six fateful months in mid-1940 when Operation Sea Lion was all that stood between the Nazis and total victory.
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eBook ISBN
9781468311129Subtopic
Military & Maritime HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Also by Leo McKinstry
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: ‘He is coming!’
- 1. ‘Walking with destiny’
- 2. ‘Last Desperate Venture’
- 3. ‘These persons should be behind barbed wire’
- 4. ‘Facing up to the possibility of invasion’
- 5. ‘Bring England to its knees’
- 6. ‘We shall fight on’
- 7. ‘Drown the brutes is what I’d like to do’
- 8. ‘Making bricks without much straw’
- 9. ‘Our backs are against the wall’
- 10. ‘A unified Ireland under the German jackboot’
- 11. ‘It is repugnant to abandon British territory’
- 12. ‘To the last ship and man’
- 13. ‘We hurl it back, right in your evil-smelling teeth’
- 14. ‘To defend our own little patch of England’
- 15. ‘A menace to the security of the country’
- 16. ‘Hide them in caves and cellars’
- 17. ‘The sea itself began to boil’
- 18. ‘Foul methods help you kill quickly’
- 19. ‘The Führer orders an abduction to be organised at once’
- 20. ‘The days are numbered for those bums over in England’
- 21. ‘All that for tuppence and an orange’
- 22. ‘A new aristocracy of German masters will have slaves’
- 23. ‘One gigantic conflagration’
- 24. ‘The extraordinary gravity of Britain’s present situation’
- 25. ‘We knew far too little of England’
- Acknowledgements
- Illustration Credits
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author