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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War, episode 223, the battle about

Britain Part 7 invasion preparations. This week, a big thank you goes out to Andrew and Anton for supporting

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history of the second world war.com slash members to find out more. The preparations made by the British government and the British military in the face of a

possible German invasion in the summer of 1940 would greatly evolve over the months

that they would take place.

In the immediate aftermath of the French defeat and the near disasters at Dunkirk and

the other evacuations from the continent, the best way

to describe their preparations were that they were fueled by panic. This would be the period where

some of the more theatrical preparations were made, although they did not know that they were

theatrical at the time. For example, the early stages of the Home Guard would be included on that list, and we'll discuss

that here in a bit.

But as the summer progressed, what was initially rather small and disorganized turned instead

to something much more powerful and structured.

This episode begins a two-part series on these defensive preparations, made between May and October

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