FORTIFICATIONS

MAURIENNE 1940
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MAURIENNE 1940

L20200124
€34.12
On 3 September 1939, following Hitler's invasion of Poland, France and the United Kingdom declared war on Germany. Italy, an ally of that country, announced its non-belligerence. Autumn and winter passed in reinforcing the defensive dispositions amid a certain torpor. In spring, the snowmelt revived the transalpine threat. From 10 May onwards, with the...
SEA FORTS IN COTENTIN AND THE CHANNEL ISLANDS
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Tracing a route along the coasts of the Cotentin and the Channel Islands, Edmond Thin leads us to discover the most significant surviving examples of the many fortifications erected there from the era of Vauban to that of Fritz Todt. While some have entirely disappeared, many are still visible today.
THE FORTIFICATIONS OF THE THIRD REICH - PLANS AND 3D MODELS THE FORTIFICATIONS OF THE THIRD REICH - PLANS AND 3D MODELS 2
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With Hitler in power, he renounced the Treaty of Versailles, including its restrictions on the construction of fortifications. This is how the major fortification programmes along the borders of the Reich began. From 1935, several types of modern fortifications were defined, and by 1937, 26 fortified lines had been erected facing France, Czechoslovakia...
HITLER'S ATLANTIC WALL
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HITLER'S ATLANTIC WALL

L20170115
€28.39
From the south of France to the north of Norway, Hitler's Atlantic Wall first examines German defensive strategy, the various types of fortifications and bunkers, before presenting, country by country, all the most important sites — from the south-west coast of France, through Brittany, Normandy, the Pas-de-Calais, then Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark,...
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