Operation Sea lion : the projected invasion of England in 1940, an account of the German preparations and the British countermeasures / Peter Fleming.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleming, Peter, 1907-1971.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

John Penman Wood Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Operation Sea Lion.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1957.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Seconds out of the ring

Ch. 2. A bugbear in eclipse

Ch. 3. The background to the German plan

Ch. 4. Directive no. 16

Ch. 5. The threat from above and the threat from within

Ch. 6. The mirages in Hitler's mind: (1) capitulation

Ch. 7. John Bull at bay

Ch. 8. The mirages in Hitler's mind: (2) disintigration

Ch. 9. Leadership in a dark hour

Ch. 10. The sea affair

Ch. 11. Margins of error: (1) British intelligence about Germans

Ch. 12. Margins of error: (2) German intelligence about the British

Ch. 13. Expedients and improvisations

Ch. 14. In the air: the lull

Ch. 15. In the air: the storm

Ch. 16. The legend of German dilettantism

Ch. 17. The sausage machine

Ch. 18. "And if necessary the island will be occupied"

Ch. 19. The eleventh hour

Ch. 20. The reckoning.

Notes:

Donated in memory of Lionel V. Patenaude.

London ed. (Hart-Davis) has title: Invasion 1940.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-313) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Fleming, Peter, 1907-1971. Operation Sea lion.

OCLC:

297254