If Britain Had Fallen by Norman Longmate
From the inner flaps:
Everyone knows that Hitler had plans for the invasion of Britain. Few Americans know that Nazi troops actually landed on British soil. Still fewer can imagine the details of invasion, defeat, and occupation.
Here Norman Longmate, author of sixteen books, asks the novelist’s ultimate question: What if – and bases the answer on known fact. The result is an exciting – indeed frightening – vision, as the Nazis break through British defenses, an underground develops, hostages are shot, Jews are rounded up, and the leader of Britain’s fascists, Sir Oswald Mosley, is asked to cooperate with the occupying forces. What would have happened to the King, to the Government? What would America have done? Would Canada and Australia have been able to were to the rescue? Would the British people have come to accept the occupation – even feel hostile toward the resistance fighters? Would the deportation of friends, the flying of the swastika from Buckingham Palace incite docility or been resistance?
The bestselling novel Vandenberg by Oliver Lange showed how Americans reacted to a Soviet occupation of the United States. Now If Britain Had Fallen does the same for a country that actually did teeter on the brink of defeat.
If Britain Had Fallen will be shown as a three-part television series in the United States.
Norman Longmate (1925–2016) was an English author and historian. This book of his was published in the UK by BBC Publications and Hutchinson, and subsequently in the United States by Stein and Day.
