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Operation Sea Lion with Alex Gerlis

Operation Sea Lion with Alex Gerlis

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In the summer of 1940, Britain was on its knees. The British Expeditionary Force had fled from mainland Europe in humiliation, and Nazi Germany eyed the South East of England greedily. All that stood between Hitler and his SS marching up the Mall was a thin strip of English channel.


My guest today is Alex Gerlis who has written The Second Traitor, a novel set in those dark days of the first year of the war. We talk about the Operation Sea Lion, its likelihood, and Nazi sympathisers in both Britain and Ireland.


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Previous episode discussing Every Spy a Traitor


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Operation Sea Lion with Alex Gerlis

Operation Sea Lion with Alex Gerlis

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