TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fleming, Peter
TI  - Operation Sea Lion: an account of the German preparations and the British counter-measures, originally published as invasion 1940 
T2  - Pan grand strategy series
SN  - 9780330420570 [paperback]
PY  - 1957///
CY  - London
PB  - Pan Books
KW  - Operation Sea Lion
N1  - Includes bibliographical index; Seconds out of the ring -- A bugbear in eclipse -- The background to the German plan -- Directive n. 16 -- The threat from above and the threat from within -- The mirages of Hitler's mind: (1) capitulation -- John Bull at bay -- The mirages of Hitler's mind: (2) disintegration -- Leadership in the 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; Adult
N2  - In the summer of 1940 the Germans prepared to launch Operation Sea Lion, the invasion of England. The British, barely recovered from Dunkirk, rallied their defenses. Both sides operated in great secrecy and, because the invasion never took place, the dramatic preparations for what would have been one of the watershed battles of history faded from memory
ER  -