Operation Sea Lion : the failed Nazi invasion that turned the tide of the war / Leo McKinstry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKinstry, Leo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Operation Sea Lion.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

392 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Failed Nazi invasion that turned the tide of the war

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The Overlook Press, 2014.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 'Walking with destiny' 6

2 'Last Desperate Venture' 10

3 'These persons should be behind barbed wire' 21

4 'Facing up to the possibility of invasion' 35

5 'Bring England to its knees' 50

6 'We shall fight on' 59

7 'Drown the brutes is what I'd like to do' 69

8 'Making bricks without much straw' 81

9 'Our backs are against the wall' 100

10 'A unified Ireland under the German jackboot' 114

11 'It is repugnant to abandon British territory' 120

12 'To the last ship and man' 125

13 'We hurl it back, right in your evil-smelling teeth' 135

14 'To defend our own little patch of England' 151

15 'A menace to the security of the country' 166

16 'Hide them in caves and cellars' 182

17 'The sea itself began to boil' 193

18 'Foul methods help you kill quickly' 209

19 'The Führer orders an abduction to be organised at once' 224

20 'The days are numbered for those bums over in England' 238

21 'All that for tuppence and an orange' 258

22 'A new aristocracy of German masters will have slaves' 277

23 'One gigantic conflagration' 298

24 'The extraordinary gravity of Britain's present situation' 315

25 'We knew far too little of England' 327.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-381) and index.

ISBN:

9781468301496

1468301497

OCLC:

861478989