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Hitler's Atlantic Wall / Anthony Saunders.
LIBRA D757 .S38 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saunders, Anthony.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Defenses.
- History.
- Atlantic Wall (France and Belgium).
- Germany--Defenses--History--20th century.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stroud : Sutton, 2001.
- Summary:
- This is the first English guide to the remains of the Atlantic Wall Hitler built to protect his newly conquered empire from sea invasion. From 1942 until the invasion of Normandy in 1944, millions of tons of steel-reinforced concrete were poured. Originating near the Spanish border in the south, these huge structures spanned close to 1,500 miles up the French coast. More than 12,000 concrete structures were built, many of them so massive (some as large as 30 feet wide and 30 feet tall) that they survive today despite attempts to demolish them.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0750925442
- OCLC:
- 46695429
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