Derek Robinson - Invasion 1940. Battle of Britain and What Stopped Hitler (2005) BW OCR COMP.pdf

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What s
top
p
e
d
Hitler
in
1940 -
wh
y
did be not
attempt to invade Britain? And if he had, would
he have been successful?
Most of us would answer
that
"The
Few"
of
Fighter Command saved Britain from certa
i
n
invasion, because
every
historian of
World War
Two, from Winston Churchill onwards, has said
so.
Yet
in
thi
s
fresh
look, Derek
Robinson argues
that the Battle
of
Britain alone could not have
been
why
Op
e
rat
i
on Sealion,
the planned German
invasion,
was
scrapped. The greater obstacle was
a force that both
Churchill and Hitler
failed
to
acknowledge.
Robinson suggests that most accounts
of
1940
are
as
if
the Channel
and
the
R
oy
a
l
Navy did
not
exist. In fact,
an ina
deq
uate
German
fleet was
relying on
the use
of
1,000
flat-bottomed barges as
landing
craft
which even in a flat calm would
have taken ten
days
to effect the
complete
landing.
These cumbersome vessels would
also
have
been
written
-
sitting ducks for the Royal Navy, which at that
time was still massi
v
e
- 70
to
80
d
e
s
tr
oy
e
r
s
were
ready and waiting in home waters.
The skill and courage
of
the Spitfire and
Hurri.cane pilots
who fought the Battle
of
Britain
are not in question, and Robinson never downplays
the extent of their sacrifice
-
he
is the
author of
the lives
of
fighter
p
ilots in both world wars.
Here
he
many
acclaimed
books
depicting
challenges a verdict that has been in place
for
50
years and his views will
be
unwelcome to
some.
But as
we
ll
as relating
the Ba
t
t
l
e of
Britain
with
his
trademark
realism, Robinson now presents
of the
old story.
clear evidence to
make us question our
easy
acceptance
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