The Atlantic Wall (2) Steven J Zaloga
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| Opis w j. angielskim: Germany’s Atlantic Wall was the most ambitious military fortification program of World War II. Following their conquest of Western Europe the German Army and Navy had a Atlantic coastline approximately 5,000km long to protect, running from the Franco-Spanish border in the south to the Artic Circle in Norway to the north. With the entry of the United States into the war in late 1941 it became clear that to the Germans that an Anglo-American landing in Western Europe was inevitable and an effort was made to fortify this coastline along the entire of its length. This title will be a companion volume to the earlier volumes dealing with the D-Day beaches (FOR 037), the Channel Islands (FOR 041) and more generally France (FOR 063). It will cover the rest of the Atlantic Wall including the Low Countries and Scandinavia. While the total fortification of these four countries was much less than in France alone, they saw many special defensive features and unique aspects of fortification, such as Norway’s role in the very early fortification efforts due to early British Commando raids, the greater use of turreted naval guns, and the role of the Low Countries as an early barrier in Germany’s Flak defences of the Reich to counter the Allied strategic bombing campaign. About the Author Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in history from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for over two decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think-tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and military history, with an accent on the US Army in World War II as well as Russia and the former Soviet Union. The author lives in Abingdon, Maryland. Cena okładkowa: 11.99 GBP
Cena detaliczna: 39.00 zł
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