Operation Sealion : how Britain crushed the German war machine's dreams of invasion in 1940
McKinstry, Leo2014
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In the summer of 1940, the Nazi war machine was at its zenith. France, Denmark, Norway and the Low Countries were all under occupation after a series of lightning military campaigns. Only Britain stood in the way of the complete triumph of Nazi tyranny. But for the first time in the war, Hitler did not prevail. Using a wealth of primary materials from both British and German archives, Leo McKinstry provides a ground-breaking new assessment of the six fateful months in mid-1940, beginning with Winston Churchill's accession to power in May and culminating in Germany's abandonment of Operation Sealion.
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Author:
McKinstry, Leo, author
Imprint:
London : John Murray, 2014.London : John Murray, 2014.
Collation:
486 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781848546981 (hbk)9781848547018 (ebook)184854698X
Dewey class:
940.5'4211940.54211940.5421940.542
Local class:
940.542940.5421
Language:
English
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Index terms:
World War 2World War TwoSecond World War
BRN:
577273