Sussex Military History Society
Researching & exploring the military past of Sussex & beyond since 1998
Up to June 1944, Op Husky was certainly the largest amphibious invasion of WW2. Op HUSKY was the invasion of Sicily in July 1943 by the western Allies. Some historians contend that it was larger than Op OVERLORD but based on the number of divisions landed on Day and the size of the Landing Zone.
Confirmed title and synopsis to follow. Seaford was an army training base before and during the First World War, with two massive army camps north and south of the town.
TBC The Battle of Dorking (1871) by George Tomkyns Chesney is one of the most influential works of early invasion literature—a vivid and unsettling fictional account of Britain’s sudden defeat by a technologically advanced European power. Written in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, it captured contemporary anxieties about national preparedness, military reform and the […]
A talk by Richard Shenton. Title and synopsis to follow