invasion of Britain Archives - Richard M. Langworth

evacuate — Operation Sea Lion invasion routes. (Italian Wikimedia Commons)

Would the Royal Family and Churchill Had Left if the Germans Invaded?

5 March 2022 Comments 1 Comment

“Would the Royal Family and Chrchill Evacuate?” is excerpted from an article for the Hillsdale College Churchill Project. For the original text with endnotes, please click here.

Q: Evacuate the Royals?

I am arguing with a person in another forum that there was a plan in the Second World War to evacuate Churchill and the Royal Family to Canada if the Nazis invaded. I believe it was called Operation Coates, but the reference I found doesn’t mention Churchill.

Churchill doesn’t seem like the sort of person to evacuate. At Sidney Street he was in the front line.…

“Dunkirk” film: What if Hitler had Launched an Invasion?

30 July 2017 Comments 0 Comments

Invasion in 1940? Timothy Egan poses a thoughtful question in The New York Times. What if Hitler, not hesitating after Dunkirk, had rapidly launched an invasion of Britain? In conveying the movie Dunkirk‘s importance, Egan’s first paragraph is a much better introduction than the film provides: For more than a thousand years, the tribes of Europe have stared into the gun-metal-gray chop of the English Channel and thought of conquest. “We have six centuries of insults to avenge,” said Napoleon. I was just there, on the same spring week when the great bedraggled scraps of the French and British armies were cornered for slaughter by the Nazi war machine 77 years ago.…