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Germany's.West.Wall-The.Siegfried.Line

By Chris Taylor , Neil Short

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Year
2004
ISBN
9781841766782, 184176678X
Open Library ID
OL8922604M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (24687916 bytes)
Series
Fortress
Edition
1St Edition
Pages
34\34
Topic
History
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

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 the development and form of this key fortification, examining the principles of its defence in visual depth, and discussing its fate in the wake of the Allied onslaught.

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