Operation Sea Lion in fiction
There is a large body of fiction set in an alternate history or a secret history, where the Operation Sea Lion, a German plan of invasion of Britain during World War II, is attempted or successfully carried out.
Literature
- Collaborator, a 2003 novel by Murray Davies.
- In the manga Hellsing the remnant of SS known as Millennium dub their attack of London Operation Sea Lion II. Prior to the attack, the leader of Millennium, The Major, states: "Finally, the sea lion has left the ocean and is heading up the hill!"
- The Man in the High Castle, a 1962 novel by Phillip K. Dick.
- Peace In Our Time (1946 – first performance 1947) by Noël Coward.
- Resistance by Owen Sheers, which sets the successful invasion in 1944 after a failed invasion of Normandy rather than in 1940.
- SS-GB by Len Deighton.
- 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
Film
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
- Dad's Army (1971)
- It Happened Here (1966)
- Jackboots on Whitehall (2010)
- Resistance (2011), a film about a group of rural Welsh partisans opposing the occupation of Britain.
- Went the Day Well? (1942) is centered on a German radar-jamming mission for Sea Lion being eventually repulsed by the efforts of the civilian population of a remote village.
Television
- An Englishman's Castle (1978) is a British series set in an alternate history 1970s, in which Nazi Germany won World War II and occupies England. The protagonist Peter Ingram is a writer for a soap opera (also called An Englishman's Castle), which is set in London during The Blitz and subsequent Nazi occupation.[1]
Video games
- Axis & Allies (2004): while playing as the Axis powers in campaign mode (which has the Axis powers winning the war), Operation Sea Lion is the mission following the failed invasion of Normandy.
- Empire Earth (2001): the last mission of the German campaign is to carry out Operation Sea Lion.
- Panzer General (1994): Sea Lion '40 and Sea Lion Plus (the latter with prestige points used to take over Gibraltar allowing Italian naval assistance) scenarios are available given major victories in early operations, or the Sea Lion '43 after initial delays and later major victories in North Africa or Russia.
- Turning Point: Fall of Liberty (2008), a first-person shooter.
- War Front: Turning Point (2007), a real-time strategy game.
- We Happy Few (video game) (in development), Survival Game set in an alternate future where the operation succeeded
See also
References
- ↑ The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism – Gavriel D. Rosenfeld – Google Books. Books.google.com. 2005-05-23. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
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