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Operation Sealion
- Hitler's Invasion Plan for Britain
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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Summary
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.
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- Shakin' Stevens
- 04-09-23
Get to the point.
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?
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- Janet Jones
- 22-06-23
I was....
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.
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- William Hardie
- 29-06-20
More a general survey of WW2
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.
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- James Strachan
- 04-02-24
Operation Sealion being the title, yet no actual facts or context of this proposed Operation in the e tire book.
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.
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- Jon
- 05-07-23
Waste of time
Don’t waste your time on this book. It’s a poorly researched general view of the war. Why do books about Britain narrated by British readers use clunky Americanisms on ‘two June’ instead of the second of July? Filled with inaccuracies such as the reason the Londoners were initially forbidden from using the Tube as bomb shelters. Not because they weren’t bomb proof but because authorities believed the population would not come back up again in the morning and bring transport and production to a halt.
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