Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Burn the Sea: Flame Warfare, Black Propaganda and the Nazi Plan to Invade England
    Unavailable
    Burn the Sea: Flame Warfare, Black Propaganda and the Nazi Plan to Invade England
    Unavailable
    Burn the Sea: Flame Warfare, Black Propaganda and the Nazi Plan to Invade England
    Ebook287 pages4 hours

    Burn the Sea: Flame Warfare, Black Propaganda and the Nazi Plan to Invade England

    By James Hayward

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    In the whole course of the war,’ conceded Britain’s chief press censor, ‘there was no story which gave me so much trouble as that of the attempted German invasion, flaming oil on the water and 30,000 burned Germans.’ Sparked by the Directorate of Military Intelligence and MI6, rumours that Britain had set fire to the English Channel to defeat a German invasion in 1940 quickly spread around the world. Highly popular in America, the incendiary ‘Big Lie’ became Britain’s first significant propaganda victory of the Second World War. Yet the unlikely deception was founded in fact. Dead German soldiers were washed ashore on British beaches, a secret Petroleum Warfare Department tested lethal flame barrages on land and sea, and fire ships were hastily dispatched to enemy ports as part of Operation Lucid. British intelligence agencies even managed to plant the burning sea story on their opposite numbers in Nazi Germany. Burn the Sea is the definitive account of the origin, circulation and astonishing longevity of the myth of the ‘invasion that failed’ in 1940, as well as its remarkable revival in 1992.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateFeb 3, 2016
    ISBN9780750968614
    Unavailable
    Burn the Sea: Flame Warfare, Black Propaganda and the Nazi Plan to Invade England
    Author

    James Hayward

    James Hayward is an editor and historian with a particular interest in twentieth-century military and art history. He has also written Myths and Legends of the Second World War (The History Press).

    Read more from James Hayward

    Related to Burn the Sea

    Related ebooks

    Wars & Military For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      TV & RADIO

      Feb 7, 2023

      TV & RADIO
      2 min read

    • Article

      TV, FILM & RADIO

      Jan 19, 2023

      TV, FILM & RADIO
      5 min read

    • Article

      Blood Brothers

      Jan 1, 2019

      Blood Brothers
      8 min read

    • Article

      Blitz Spirit

      Aug 25, 2020

      Blitz Spirit
      5 min read

    • Article

      Alderney's Inconvenient Truth

      Sep 20, 2023

      What happened on Alderney during the war? A government ‘Review into the number of prisoners who died on Alderney during the Nazi occupation’ has been greeted with headlines about ‘Britain's Holocaust Island’ – allegations of cover-up and conspiracy,

      3 min read

    • Article

      Encounters

      Jan 19, 2023

      Encounters
      5 min read

    • Article

      TV, FILM & RADIO

      Feb 18, 2021

      TV, FILM & RADIO
      5 min read

    • Article

      It Was 60 Years Ago Today…

      Feb 7, 2024

      If you want to get a real sense of an era, a good place to start is the display ads in the popular press. In the case of 1964, there was a good deal of talk about floor coverings, with several retailers noting that carpet prices were set to increase

      4 min read

    • Article

      'I'd Like To Volunteer, Sir': 75 Years After D-Day, Memories Live On Through Oral Histories

      May 30, 2019

      Just before parachuting into Nazi-occupied Europe, Fayette Richardson asked himself an existential question: "My God, Most Powerful, what am I doing here?" The thought had to be on the minds of myriad soldiers on June 6, 1944. It was D-Day, the launc

      7 min read

    • Article

      A “Villain for All Seasons”

      Aug 5, 2020

      The real, complex, and historically important Churchill is increasingly disappearing behind crudely mythologised versions erected by those who wish to defend a political position or a series of values, and those who wish to attack them. On the one ha

      9 min read

    • Article

      Handshakes In A Pandemic

      Dec 9, 2023

      Handshakes In A Pandemic
      11 min read

    • Article

      TV, FILM & RADIO

      Jun 10, 2021

      TV, FILM & RADIO
      5 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Aug 4, 2022

      David Frost with Richard Nixon, 1977. Reader Charlotte Cornish lauds the duo’s TV clash of that year In regard to Clifford Williamson’s feature on Watergate (July), it is interesting to note that this was not the first time that US president Richard

      3 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Jan 19, 2023

      While I agree with Fern Riddell that we shouldn’t treat audiences of historical dramas as stupid (The Conversation, Christmas), most people in any audience are not as well-versed in the subject as the programme-makers. Period dramas such as The Crown

      4 min read

    • Article

      The BBC At War

      Oct 27, 2022

      Just after 9.30am London time on Tuesday 6 June 1944, the world officially learned that Operation Overlord – the largest seaborne invasion in history – was under way. By the time the news was announced on the radio, the first American, British and Ca

      5 min read

    • Article

      Wired Words

      Feb 23, 2018

      Wired Words
      3 min read

    • Article

      Encounters

      Nov 24, 2022

      Encounters
      3 min read

    • Article

      Must-see Events

      Feb 21, 2019

      Journalist and historian Tim Bouverie explains the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting in Britain that allowed Nazi domination of Europe and determined the continent’s fate. Bouverie used archival research an

      2 min read

    • Article

      London’s Crime Blitz

      Feb 21, 2023

      London’s Crime Blitz
      11 min read

    • Article

      TV, FILM & RADIO

      Oct 1, 2020

      TV, FILM & RADIO
      5 min read

    • Article

      Reviews

      Sep 6, 2018

      Reviews
      9 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Jul 9, 2020

      Letters
      4 min read

    • Article

      History Podcasts To Binge On

      May 14, 2020

      Our own History Extra podcast was one of the first to enter the fray back in July 2007 with an in-depth interview with Sir Ian Kershaw. Since then we’ve released more than 700 episodes in which a broad array of historians have explored a vast range o

      2 min read

    • Article

      Anniversaries

      Feb 20, 2020

      Anniversaries
      5 min read

    • Article

      Encounters

      Dec 28, 2022

      Encounters
      5 min read

    • Article

      Reviews

      Oct 8, 2020

      Reviews
      6 min read

    Reviews for Burn the Sea

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words