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Where the Eagle Landed: The Mystery of the German Invasion of Britain, 1940

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The historical accuracy and capabilities of the writer are summed up in his (page 108) statement "in the early days of the War of Independence in 1812"

When I began reading, I found that the author was bouncing all over the place-going back to the 1500's then to the 1900's then to the 1800's, then...

In addition, when I looked for the footnotes that should relate a wide variety of quoted material to their sources that would be reflected in the "source notes" or in an extensive bibliography, what I found was nothing I should expect in a well researched historial document.

We have numerous quotes, from a variety of English & American (sensationalist) newspapers, books written in the late 1930's, 1940's and a few in the 1950's and 1960's, long before more accurate historically denoted books were written after the Official Secret's Act was no longer applied.

None of the quoted material is set off in the required manner (although it is indented) and none of it is cited by a link to the bibliography.

When I finished reading this "book", I found that there was not a single corroborated fact present. All was 60, 50, 40 year old hearsay. In addition, the author undermines his own thesis by some text that indicates that the "bodies" he mentions were actually the result of RAF bombing/straffing of German training exercises preparatory to the invasion under SeaLion.