Martin Marix-Evans | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

This Multi Pack consists of Invasion! 058277294X and History Today Voucher

This history (part history, part story) explores what could have happened during World War II. The Battle of Britain was launched in July 1940 and Hitler issued directives for a landing operation against England, named Operation Sealion. Fortunately for Britain it was cancelled on 12 October. However, this book explores the alternative - that Operation Sealion began as planned on 21 September.

The book follows the real course of events up to 1 September, including the planning in Britain and Germany, and the aerial war. The fictional story then supposes that the Germans halted their advance in France along the Seine and the Aisne after the fall of Paris and that Marshal Petain conceded an armistice at that point. The Panzer divisions are thus able to rest and re-equip in northern France…..

This terrifying alternative reality is actually based on historical facts such as the massing of barges in ports from Antwerp to Le Havre and the air-raids carried out by Bomber command against them. A brilliant blend of meticulous research and imagination, this book is bound to appeal to anyone with an interest in the causes and effects of historical events, and indeed to anyone interested in history itself.