Warships in the Battle of Britain 1940: The Royal Navy's plans to defeat Operation Sealion

The first illustrated account of the Royal Navy's World War II plans for defeating Hitler's proposed invasion of 1940 at sea.

While 'the Few' of RAF Fighter Command fought to deny the Luftwaffe superiority over southern England, it was the Royal Navy that was ultimately charged with defeating any invasion force at sea. All the warships the Navy could spare were deployed to ports in home waters, and if an invasion had been launched, it would have been a fight to the death.

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