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The Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde are set in an alternate universe in which Operation Sea Lion was successful. The German occupying force is eventually driven out, and by the time of The Eyre Affair England is a republic. Weaver, 2008 novel by Stephen Baxter.
Operation Sea Lion, ... There is a large corpus of works set in an alternate history where the Nazi invasion of Great Britain is attempted or successfully carried out.
SS-GB is set less than a year after the British surrender following a successful Operation Sea Lion. In 1940, the Germans landed near Ashford , and Canterbury was declared an open city . The German advance captured London , but a British rear guard around Colchester slowed down the Germans for long enough to enable Royal Navy ships to escape ...
The flag of the Protectorate of Albion. In Weaver ' s alternate historical timeline, Adolf Hitler decided to launch Operation Sea Lion (a projected German invasion of the island of Great Britain) in 1940, shortly after a more devastating version of the Dunkirk evacuation caused a shortage of British Army soldiers.
Operation Sea Lion (invasion of Great Britain after September 1940, not carried out) Planned Axis invasion of England; Operation Herbstreise (a planned series of deception operations to support Sea Lion) Operation Green (invasion of Ireland in support of Sea Lion, also known as Fall Grün.
The Crossroads of Time (1956): Features a world in which Nazi Germany won the Battle of Britain, Operation Sea Lion went ahead in May 1940 and the Axis subsequently launched an invasion of the United States. As a consequence of this sequence of events, civilization has collapsed and New York has been bombed into ruins.
A British soldier on a beach in Southern England, 7 October 1940. Detail from a pillbox embrasure.. British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat of invasion (Operation Sea Lion) by German armed forces in 1940 and 1941.
The term "alien space bats" was coined and popularized in the Usenet group "soc.history.what-if" in 1998. [3] [4] Alison Brooks (1959–2002), credited as the creator of the term, used it to debunk the possibility of a successful Operation Sea Lion by saying that Nazi Germany could successfully invade the United Kingdom across the English Channel only if they had the help of alien space bats.