Geoff Hewitt

An OK book obviously written about the author's pet subject. There are a few interesting pieces of analysis in here and some nuggets I didn't know, but the author's need to ram home his point in prose sometimes takes him away from the analysis that'd ram it home for him. A prime example is the huge analysis of Destroyers under air attack in Norway and at Dunkirk that isn't then translated into something like "hours of air attack needed to sink a Destroyer" that'd let him prove that even in ideal conditions the Luftwaffe couldn't have stopped the Royal navy from decisively intervening in any attempted invasion.
Also it should surely have been called "Adolph's Armada"...… (plus d'informations)

An interesting evaluation of the German failure to attempt an invasion of Great Britain following the fall of France. This book establishes a solid argument for reexamining the impact of the Battle of Brittan on Operation Sea Lion. The condition of the German surface fleet as documented clearly indicates that in the summer and fall of 1940 it was in no condition to protect a cross-channel invasion fleet. The balance of naval power in the invasion zone was clearly in the Royal Navy's favor. There can be little doubt as to the havoc that would have resulted from night time surface attacks against the invasion fleet, when air power would not be a factor.… (plus d'informations)