[Joe Garcia] Illustrated Operation Felix - Hitler's plan to capture Gibraltar (pdf){Zzzzz}[BЯ]

The role in Gibraltar during the Second World War of Ian Fleming, who went on after the war to create 007 James Bond, is told in a new, enlarged edition of the book 'Operation Felix: Hitler's Plan to Capture Gibraltar'(PANORAMApublishingGIBRALTAR) by journalist Joe Garcia.
Unlike his fictional character James Bond, Commander Fleming had a real-life job with Britain's intelligence service and was sent to Gibraltar to set up an operation codenamed 'Goldeneye', as part of a British counter-plan to help resist Hitler's Operation Felix.
For centuries, says the book, the control of the Mediterranean had been a fundamental principle of British policy, and without unimpeded passage of British ships through it, the maintenance of the British Empire would have been impossible.
In wartime Europe, Hitler's victorious armies seemed unstoppable, but the Battle of Britain made the Germans fully realise that without absolute air control and supremacy at sea, an effective attack on Britain was not possible.
It dawned on the Nazi Germans that large-scale naval operations were impossible because Gibraltar was in British hands. The answer, Hitler concluded, was to push his forces through Spain, capture Gibraltar and spill over to North Africa to control the western entrance to the Mediterranean. Thus, 'Operation Felix' was born.
Former Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar, General Sir William Jackson, who engaged the Germans in battle during the war and who was to become a noted military historian, said in a foreword to the 'Operation Felix' book: "I can thoroughly commend this study."

Publisher: MedSun Publishing Co Ltd (1979)
ASIN: B00E2VKJE0