In the summer of 1940--after the Nazis crushed France and defeated Belgium--all Britain prepared for a German invasion. English forces stood on the Channel coast, waiting, but though the Luftwaffe bombarded Britain day and night, occupying forces never arrived. Why did they never attack this nearly defenseless island? Look through German eyes and get to bottom of the indecision that in the end may have cost them the war.

Cassell Military Classics: Operation Sea Lion: The German Plan To Invade Britain, 1940

History

Kieser, Egbert

Europe

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

Translated from the German language edition (Bechtle Verlag, Munich; 1987), this account of Operation 'Sea Lion' describes the terror and uncertainty that spread throughout Europe and crossed the Atlantic to Washington in response to Hitler's later abandoned plan to invade Britain in the summer of 1940. The author, a German historian, questions how Hitler's decision not to invade Britain affected the outcome the war, and whether he ever truly intended to execute the operation he constructed. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Hitler on the Doorstep: Operation 'Sea Lion' : The German Plan to Invade Britain, 1940

Military

Naval Inst Pr

Egbert Kieser’s graphic account of the Red Army’s assault on East Prussia in 1945 is one of the classic histories of the destruction of Hitler’s Germany, and it has never before been available in English. Using extensive, firsthand, unforgettable eyewitness testimony, he documents in riveting detail the catastrophe that overtook German civilians and soldiers as they fled from the Soviet onslaught and their world collapsed around them. Tony Le Tissier, in this fluent and vivid translation of the original German text, brings to bear all his expert knowledge of the military defeat of the German armies in the East and the enormity of the human disaster that went with it. Egbert Kieser was born in 1928 in Bad Salzungen, Thüringen and studied philosophy and the history of art at Heidelberg University. He worked as a freelance journalist, writer and editor. Among his many publications are two outstanding studies of German Second World War history – Danziger Bucht 1945 (which is translated here as Prussian Apocalypse) and Operation Sea Lion: The German Plan to Invade Britain, 1940.

Prussian Apocalypse: The Fall of Danzig 1945

Pen and Sword Military

Unternehmen Seelöwe. Die geplante Invasion in England 1940.

Bechtle

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