We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940–41
Written by Robert Forczyk
Narrated by Paul Boehmer
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About this audiobook
Robert Forczyk, author of Where the Iron Crosses Grow, looks beyond the traditional British account of Operation Sea Lion, complete with plucky Home Guards and courageous Spitfire pilots, at the real scale of German ambition, plans, and capabilities. He examines, in depth, how Operation Sea Lion fitted in with German air-sea actions around the British Isles as he shows exactly what stopped Hitler from invading Britain.
Robert Forczyk
Robert Forczyk has a PhD in International Relations and National Security from the University of Maryland and a strong background in European and Asian military history. He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the US Army Reserves having served 18 years as an armour officer in the US 2nd and 4th infantry divisions and as an intelligence officer in the 29th Infantry Division (Light). Dr Forczyk is currently a consultant in the Washington, DC area.
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Reviews for We March Against England
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very informative a fun of new information about Germany’s options in World war 2.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well What do i say, it was fantastic, i wish all the other so called historical writers went to as much trouble as Robert, loved it the what could been, if the invasion went ahead.
History is usually told from the victors point of view, here we have a German side,
The zany ideas that Churchill had, and his tactical blunders, has all but been hidden, now the war is won, and the boys have come home. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Forczyk is a committed Anglophobe - the Germans can do no wrong in the period 1940-42 while Churchill and the British thrash about wildly with no strategy and no plan. The British Army had suffered defeat after defeat and its leadership was deficient - certainly worse than that of the French in May 1940! The 'so-called Battle of Britain' still left the Germans much stronger than the British - despite the 'defeat' of the Luftwaffe. Forczyk highlights the increasing sortie rate of the Luftwaffe bomber force - the Luftwaffe killed 15,000 civilians during the period August -October 1940 , compared to just 50 German civilian deaths inflicted by RAF Bomber Command in the same three month period. They simply switched to the night Blitz - against which the British had no strategies.(not that the Luftwaffe had a night fighter force at this stage either!) Forcyzk fails to explain how this would have helped the Germans mount a daylight invasion. He does highlight German inability to 'jam' British radar and the 'sporadic and inconsistent' efforts to disrupt British operational and strategic 'centres of gravity' through inconsistent target selection! Forczyk's resolutely pro-German stance does mean however that he has to invest 'Sealion' with the sort of credibility that meant it was a serious proposition, despite the lack of a plan accepted by all the leaders of the Wehrmacht and the lack of advocates for an invasion among the members of Hitler's inner circle. Forczyk even claims that the 'lack' of a plan would have been to the German's advantage. Forczyk also claims - against all the evidence -that the Germans would have been able to deploy more naval assets in the Channel than the Royal Navy had they attempted an invasion - more destroyers, faster more numerous vessels. Of course Forczyk's arguments fall absolutely flat because 'Sealion' never did take place. There was no 'decisive' moment since nothing was decided. For Forcyzk Churchill made 'critical mistakes' in strategic judgement and Britain was still in a position of 'great peril'. According to Forczyk Britain had no allies and Churchill was hanging on for American or Soviet intervention;"..Churchill had over-extended Britain in the name of uncompromising bravado", when Forczyk insists he could have opened negociations to win a breathing space. Or worse, "Churchill shared some of the same inflexible tendencies as Hitler.." when it came to waging war - an absolutely outrageous conclusion in the opinion of this reviewer.. A resolutely pro-German view of 'Sealion' that almost completely avoids any detailed consideration of why the Germans were unable to attempt an invasion of Britain. German 'technologies' developed for 'Sealion' were however put to good use in other theatres..
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Book received from NetGalleyI had heard about Operation Sea Lion prior to reading this book but I had no clue what it was. World War II history is too "new" for me to really enjoy reading or studying about it. I learned quite a bit from this book and now I want to know more about this early part of World War II.