Burn the Sea (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
192
Utgivningsdatum
2016-02-03
Förlag
The History Press Ltd
Illustrationer
8 Plates, black and white; 20 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensioner
236 x 157 x 23 mm
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481 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780750965989

Burn the Sea

Flame Warfare, Black Propaganda and the Nazi Plan to Invade England

av James Hayward
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2016-02-03
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In the whole course of the war, conceded Britains chief press censor, there was no story which gave me so much trouble as that of the attempted German invasion, flaming oil on the water and 30,000 burned Germans. Sparked by the Directorate of Military Intelligence and MI6, rumours that Britain had set fire to the English Channel to defeat a German invasion in 1940 quickly spread around the world. Highly popular in America, the incendiary Big Lie became Britains first significant propaganda victory of the Second World War. Yet the unlikely deception was founded in fact. Dead German soldiers were washed ashore on British beaches, a secret Petroleum Warfare Department tested lethal flame barrages on land and sea, and fire ships were hastily dispatched to enemy ports as part of Operation Lucid. British intelligence agencies even managed to plant the burning sea story on their opposite numbers in Nazi Germany. Burn the Sea is the definitive account of the origin, circulation and astonishing longevity of the myth of the invasion that failed in 1940, as well as its remarkable revival in 1992.
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James Hayward is an editor and historian with a particular interest in twentieth-century military and art history. He has also written Myths and Legends of the Second World War (The History Press).

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