ASIN: B00KGVD280
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 177
It was designed as the ultimate defence of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich. A wall that would secure the Nazi empire from invasion...Fortifications are often impressive in their sheer size and strength, but the breadth of the monolithic battlements that make up Hitler’s Atlantic Wall is incredible. Millions of tonnes of steel-reinforced concrete were poured into tens of thousands of defences along nearly 3,000 miles of European coastline, in a project which involved countless workers. The structures they built were so massive that many still survive today despite vigorous attempts to demolish them. This book is the first history of the wall to be written in English, and examines the reasons behind its construction. Hitler conceived the Atlantic Wall as a line of impregnable defences to protect his newly conquered empire from the inevitable onslaught of Allied attack. Bunkers, gun ...
