Germany's West Wall  -  Neil Short

The Siegfried Line (Fortress)

KORTE INHOUD

The West Wall (or the Siegfried Line as the Allies called it) played a crucial role in the bitter fighting of 1944 and 1945 in North-West Europe. Constructed in the period immediately after the remilitarisation of the Rhineland in 1936, the Wall stretched for 300 miles from Cleve in the north to the Swiss Border and consisted of some 14,000 pillboxes. The Wall initially blunted the US attack, and Hitler used it as a foundation from which to launch the Ardennes Offensive. This title takes a detailed look at ...
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2004 Uitgever: Osprey Publishing 64 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 184176678X ISBN-13: 9781841766782