
Hitler's Siegfried Line
Neil Short(Author)
The History Press Ltd
Will be published approx. on 19. April 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-0-7509-4501-1 (ISBN)
Description
Built by Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1938, over 500,000 workers were involved in its construction. This book gives a detailed historical background to the Siegfried Line, and a guide to what is left to see of it today. The line was not designed to thwart a full-scale offensive, but rather to delay any attack sufficiently to allow the German reserves to mobilise. In the 'phoney war' (1939-40) it was effective enough to prevent the French from launching a pre-emptive strike when German forces were heavily engaged in Poland. Certain sections of the defences saw some of the fiercest fighting of the Second World War. Much has since been dismantled, but some still remains today. This, the first English-language guide to the Siegfried Line, is fully illustrated and will appeal to anyone interested in the rise and fall of Hitler and Nazism, or in the Second World War in general.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 172 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7509-4501-1 (9780750945011)
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NEIL SHORT is the author of a number of articles dealing with German fortifications in the Second World War. An accountant by profession, he devotes most of his spare time to research and writing.