Invasion 1940 : an account of the German preparations and the British counter-measures / Peter Fleming
1957, 1st edition. London : Hart-Davis. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #473248
Physical description: 323p,leaf of plate,xxivp of plates : ill, facsims, 1plan, ports ; 23cm. Notes: Bibliography, p.311-313. - Includes index. Contents: Partial contents Secons out of the ring -- A Bugbear in eclipse -- The background to the German plan -- directive no. 16 -- the threat from abouve and the threat from within -- The mirages in Hitler's mind: (1) capitulation -- John Bull at bay -- The mirages in Hitler's mind: (2) disintegration -- Leadership in a dark hour -- The sea affair -- Margins of error (1) British intelligence about the Germans -- Margins of error: (2) German intelligence about the British -- expedients and improvisations -- In the air: the lull -- In the air: the storm -- the legend of German dilettantism -- The sausage machine -- "And if necessary the island will be occupied' -- The eleventh hour -- The reckoning. Subjects: 1939-1945. Operation Sea Lion. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Western Front.
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