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Operation Sealion

Hitler's Invasion Plan for Britain

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During the summer of 1940, Hitler's Germany appeared unstoppable. The Nazis were masters of mainland Europe, in alliance with Stalin's Russia, and only the English Channel prevented an immediate invasion.

Britain stood alone. The BEF had been routed, but due to the "Dunkirk miracle", most of her manpower had returned, albeit without their transport and heavy equipment and guns. There was no doubt that the Nazis planned to invade - all intelligence pointed that way. However, it never materialized, thanks to the outcome of the Battle of Britain and Hitler's decision to invade Russia.

Operation Sealion examines just how realistic the German threat of invasion was. The author studies the plans, the available capability and resources, and the Germans' record in Norway and, later, Crete. The author weighs these against the state of Britain's defenses and the relative strengths of the land, air, and naval forces. The result is a fascinating study of what might or might not have been.

©2018 David Wragg (P)2019 Tantor Armed Forces Engineering Europe Great Britain Military Naval Forces War Imperialism England Russia Royalty Soviet Union
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This book is ok but I was disappointed that it was not very specific on Sealion. It kind of rambled all over the campaign by the Germans from Poland to Russia with all the other invasions in between.

More a general survey of WW2

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The narrator is ok, he did a good job.

But the book is about all kinds of things in WW2, but I wanted to hear on the focus, and that was very little.
Also, poorly researched, very overlapping and repetitive and without any analysis, theme or uniqueness.

Would not be happy if I had paid for it!

Wash of time- not on the subject

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so looking forward to listening to this book, but I was very disappointed with it because it seemed to talk about everything else and not much about Operation Sealion. The narrator was very good.

I was....

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This felt like it had been fleshed out. Taking the premise of how countries had been invaded over the centuries the book veers wildly off course. The lessons from the Romans aren’t
as relevant as Napoleon, and Napoleon didn’t have an airforce. The text is repetitive at times and the author doesn’t seem to know about Ultra?

Get to the point.

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For the length of the audiobook, much of the tome was dedicated to pre 20th century history around possible/actual invasions of Britain. From recollection, the phrase "Operation Sealion" was mentioned twice? and any actual facts or opinions on this were missing. This audiobook was unfortunately a random rambling of WW2 history of 1940.

Operation Sealion being the title, yet no actual facts or context of this proposed Operation in the e tire book.

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