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  • Storming Suez: Inside Operation Musketeer’ – by George Hoad

    Lewes Town Hall High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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    A talk by George Hoad, a local amateur historian. Operation Musketeer was the Anglo-French plan for the invasion of the Suez canal zone to capture the Suez Canal during the Suez Crisis in 1956 and return it to Anglo-French control and operation. Israel, which invaded the Sinai Peninsula, had the additional objectives of opening the […]

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  • Italian POWs march to waiting landing craft during the Allied invasion of Sicily, July 1943

    Operation HUSKY: the largest amphibious invasion of the Second World War? – Graham Moore

    Lewes Town Hall High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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    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.

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  • The Battle of Dorking – Nick Cook

    Lewes Town Hall High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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    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 […]

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