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Operation Sea Lion
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192 pages, Hardcover
First published December 13, 1974
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November 30, 2013
"The German Paratroops jumped at dawn, as they had done in Holland, in Belgium, in Norway. But this time there were more of them. Nearly 8000 Fallschirmjager of the 7th Fliegerdivision, carried by a stream of 600 Junkers 52 transports.
The time was 6 o'clock on the morning of September 22nd 1940, just a few minutes after the official sunrise on a grey cloudy, windless day.
Below the long lines of aircraft the unwontedly calm sea was dark with the countless barges and motorboats of the invasion fleet. By breakfast time close on 90,000 troops were successfully ashore on the beaches between Folkestone and Seaford. Operation Sealion had begun."
Excerpt from Sealion by Richard Cox.
The German invasion of Britain in 1940 never happened, however in 1974 Paddy Griffith organised a wargame at Sandhurst Military Academy to see what might have happened.
The German umpires were General Adolf Galland (air), Admiral Friedrich Ruge (naval) and General Heinrich Trettner (land). Their respective British counterparts were Air Chief Marshall Christopher Foxley-Norris, Rear Admiral Teddy Gueritz and Major General Glyn Gilbert.
Operation Sealion is a book I've read many times and is a real page turner, describing in a novelistic format the unfolding of the German invasion of Britain in 1940.
Now sadly hard to get hold of, it really should be released again as an ebook, I'm sure it would do well.
The time was 6 o'clock on the morning of September 22nd 1940, just a few minutes after the official sunrise on a grey cloudy, windless day.
Below the long lines of aircraft the unwontedly calm sea was dark with the countless barges and motorboats of the invasion fleet. By breakfast time close on 90,000 troops were successfully ashore on the beaches between Folkestone and Seaford. Operation Sealion had begun."
Excerpt from Sealion by Richard Cox.
The German invasion of Britain in 1940 never happened, however in 1974 Paddy Griffith organised a wargame at Sandhurst Military Academy to see what might have happened.
The German umpires were General Adolf Galland (air), Admiral Friedrich Ruge (naval) and General Heinrich Trettner (land). Their respective British counterparts were Air Chief Marshall Christopher Foxley-Norris, Rear Admiral Teddy Gueritz and Major General Glyn Gilbert.
Operation Sealion is a book I've read many times and is a real page turner, describing in a novelistic format the unfolding of the German invasion of Britain in 1940.
Now sadly hard to get hold of, it really should be released again as an ebook, I'm sure it would do well.
August 28, 2024
A great read, definitely captures key historical points and doesn’t get too carried away with what ifs. Using the official war game and turning into a novel is a great concept.
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