Operation Sealion

First edition, first impression.  190pp, with a central section on black and white plate illustrations.  Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth a little bruised at spine ends, some shadowing to text block edges, mildly affecting extreme page margins.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original illustrated and glossy dust wrapper, a little toned, rubbed and bumped on extreme edges, not price clipped, slightly sunned over the spine.  

Sealion was the code name for the German operation for the invasion of Great Britain in 1940.  Meticulously planned by the Germans, Churchill was convinced in the September that its initiation was imminent.  Then, for reasons not fully understood even now, Hitler postponed the operation until 1941, or, as it came to pass, forever,  Cox’s study of the operation and its fallout remains one of the most thorough and dramatic, told on the basis of eye-witness accounts of those actually involved.   Hard to find.