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Invasion Scare 1940 (Paperback)
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Invasion Scare 1940 (Paperback)
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List price R472
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In the Summer of 1940, after evacuation of the British
Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk and the Franco/German armistice
which followed the fall of France, Britain stood alone against the
armed might of Hitler's Germany, supported only by the forced of
her dominions and inspired by little but the rhetoric of her
newly-appointed Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. It seemed
inevitable at the time that Hitler's next move would be the
invasion of Britain and Churchill was not slow to use this threat
to unite the people of Britain behind him; for not a few people in
influential circles in Britain then favoured a quick settlement
with the Fuhrer. Michael Glover's penetrating analysis of the mood
of British people that summer, of the German ability to mount an
amphibious invasion at the time and of Britain's ability to repel
such an invasion shows how ill-founded the scare was, while
explaining how well it served the British cause. Hitler, as he
shows, had embarked upon a course to which there were only two
outcomes - either of which was bound to lead to his ultimate
downfall. But in the summer of 1940 the beleaguered inhabitants of
Britain were in no mood or position to relax in the comfort of such
historical hindsight. Unprepared they may have been, but as the
author shows, they were unflinching, unbowed - and, ultimately,
undefeated. This is, however, by no means a work of chauvinistic
self-congratulations; it is rather a distinguished historian's
assessment of the last great invasion scare the British Isles have
endured since the Martello towers were built in 1805.
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