Book Description
This is the first English guide to the remains of the Atlantic Wall Hitler built to protect his newly conquered empire from sea invasions.
Author : Anthony Saunders
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,29 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
This is the first English guide to the remains of the Atlantic Wall Hitler built to protect his newly conquered empire from sea invasions.
Author : Alan F. Wilt
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
A study of the planning and thinking that went into the creation of Hitler's "Atlantic Wall," which was intended to prevent the D-Day invasion and throw Allied soldiers back into the sea. The book details how and why the Atlantic Wall failed to perform as Hitler intended.
Author : Richard C. Anderson
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 2009-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0811742717
Refreshingly different perspective on the momentous events of D-Day.
Author : George Forty
Publisher : Ian Allan Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
A detailed account of the usefullnes effectiveness and the necissity of the Atlantic Wall to Hitler and Germanys advances in World War II.
Author : J. E. Kaufmann
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 24,48 MB
Release : 2012-09-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1783378387
This WWII history and visitor’s guide explores the extensive network of Nazi fortifications built to defend Fortress Europe. Hitler's Atlantic Wall, the complex system of coastal fortifications that stretched from Norway to the Spanish border during the Second World War, was built to defend occupied Europe from Allied invasion. Many of its principal structures survive and can be visited today. This authoritative guide provides both practical information for visitors and essential historical context. The wall, which was constructed on a massive scale between 1942 and 1944 by German engineers, forced laborers and troops, consisted of strong points, artillery casemates, bunkers, troop shelters, minefields, anti-tank and anti-boat obstacles. It also included the concrete U-boat and E-boat pens in the key ports and, behind the Channel coast, the V-weapon sites. This huge scheme of fortifications was one of the longest series of defensive lines in military history. This comprehensive volume takes readers and visitors through the entire story of the fortifications from the fall of France to the D-Day invasion on the beaches of Normandy that finally broke through. As a guide to some of the most impressive relics of the Second World War, this book is essential reading for travelers or anyone interested in the liberation of occupied Europe.
Author : Stephan Vanfleteren
Publisher : Cannibal Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Abandoned buildings
ISBN : 9789491376795
During World War II, Adolf Hitler gave the order for a line of defence to be constructed along the coasts of the western front. Ranging from the French-Spanish border to the north of Norway, this Atlantic Wall is a series of bunkers, barricades and coastal batteries. Over the past year, Stephan Vanfleteren photographed this 'wall' of more than 2600 kilometers in his well-known black-and-white style. He planted his tripod on various beaches in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, climbed cliff faces in France, sailed between the fjords of Norway and stood in the surf in Denmark to photograph the ruins of the largest military structure of the previous century. Vanfleteren shows with this series of photos his wonder for the untamed architectural beauty of these concrete structures and he shows the power of nature as it slowly reclaims these structures that were once considered impenetrable.
Author : Colin Partridge
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : 9780950472904
Author : Paul Williams
Publisher : Pen & Sword Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781473829237
This highly informative book begins with an examination of the background to Germany's primary military objectives in relation to the western end of their self-styled 'Fortress Europe' including the early foundation of shore defences in northern France. In 1941, there was a switch in emphasis of the Atlantic Wall's role from attack to defence. Beach defences became more elaborate and the Nazi-controlled Todt Organisation began a massive building programme constructing new bunkers and reinforcing existing sites, using forced labour. Hitler appointed Rommel to formulate Germany's anti-invasion plans in early 1944. At the same time the Allies were making extensive studies of the fortifications and preparing for the challenge of overcoming this most formidable of obstacles. Using, in many cases, previously unpublished accounts of the soldiers on the ground this book follows Britain's 79th Armoured Division, Sir Percy Hobart's 'Funnies', as they utilised their unique weaponry in support of Allied efforts to ensure the success of the invasion. The author draws on British, American, Canadian and German sources. Hitler's Atlantic Wall - Normandy also includes information on war cemeteries along with travel information and accommodation suggestions and a guide to the relevant museums.
Author : Simon Forty
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612003757
"Hitler's Antlantic Wall first examines the labor force and construction, bunker types and their weaponry, the German defensive strategy and its defects before providing a country-by-country gazetteer of the most significant Atlantic Wall sites from the southwest coast of France , through Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark to the northermost coast of Norway, attacked by the Red Army in late 1944..."--Publisher description.
Author : Despina Stratigakos
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0691234132
"How Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model 'Aryan' society in Norway during World War II"--