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We March Against England

Operation Sea Lion, 1940–41

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We March Against England

By: Robert Forczyk
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
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In May 1940, Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe. The only European power still standing was Great Britain - and the all-conquering German armed forces stood poised to cross the Channel. Following the destruction of the RAF fighter forces, the sweeping of the Channel of mines, and the wearing down of the Royal Naval defenders, two German army groups were set to storm the beaches of southern England. Despite near-constant British fears from August to October, the invasion never took place after first being postponed to spring 1941 before finally being abandoned entirely.

Robert Forczyk, author of Where the Iron Crosses Grow, looks beyond the traditional British account of Operation Sea Lion, complete with plucky Home Guards and courageous Spitfire pilots, at the real scale of German ambition, plans, and capabilities. He examines, in depth, how Operation Sea Lion fitted in with German air-sea actions around the British Isles as he shows exactly what stopped Hitler from invading Britain.

©2016 Robert Forczyk (P)2016 Tantor Europe Germany Great Britain Military England War Armed Force Royalty Imperialism Royal Navy Air Force Submarine United Kingdom British Empire Interwar Period

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over exaggerated and incorrect pronunciations spoilt what is essentially a good book. very poor performance by the narrator. England and America really do speak different languages.

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Well researched and brings the facts to the table; some a little uncomfortable. He presents the period as it was then with a fresh review, I found the closing remarks highly relevant to how much different the UK future might have been.

Food for thought

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Whilst the book has a lot of great detail and information I do feel the Anti British and Anti Churchill vibe going on and WHY oh WHY do they pick American narrators who can not pronounce English names of Places ( where actually IS “Slew” / Slough ? ) County Regt names and even simple names and words ( it’s “ aluMINIUM “ for cry out loud ) Somewhat ruined my experience with his jarring voice .

Great Details .. BUT

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The author appears to be an Axis fanboy. The Axis represented as being all powerful and victorious in every venture, while conversely the British and Commonwealth forces are inept and unorganised. This is an oversimplification of complex events and the facts are either misrepresented or indeed ignored to suite the narrative pursued by this author.

The narration doesn’t help either with many mispronunciations and “the Second World War” phrase used far too often where World War Two would have sufficed.

Ultimately this is an unbalanced appraisal of the events and the authors closing summary isn’t remotely plausible. Perhaps this book can offer some insight to the subject, however, it should not be considered as an authoritative account on its own.

Interesting but flawed

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This book isn’t helped by the narration. The narrator has a strange idea of which words to emphasise in a sentence, which makes it sound a bit like it’s an AI voice, which it isn’t.

Also, it’s either ‘the Second World War’ or ‘world war 2’ … not ‘the World War Two’.

I have to agree with some of the other reviewers that according to the author, the Allies are lucky amateurs whereas he seems to think the Axis forces are the perfect example of military planning.

The author likes to put down previous books and historians for not doing their research or believing the post-war propaganda about this period. He is especially cutting when covering Bletchley Park and how all those other books don’t understand Enigma … then does exactly the same thing.

Very strange

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