Ian Thomson

The real Dad’s Army was no joke

A review of Operation Sealion: How Britain Crushed the German war Machine’s Dreams of Invasion in 1940, by Leo McKinstry. Civil liberties went out the window when the Nazis threatened

A member of the London Home Guard demonstrates the use of old wallpaper as camouflage (1942) [Getty Images]

  • Operation Sealion

    Leo McKinstry

    John Murray, pp. 486

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