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Germany's West Wall - The Siegfried Line

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Fortress - World War I & II

MSRP old price: $20.00


Product Info

Title
Germany's West Wall - The Siegfried Line
Publisher
Category
Author
Neil Short
Publish Year
2004
Pages
64
Dimensions
8x10x.25"
NKG Part #
2147397077
MFG. Part #
OSPFOR015
Type
Softcover
Series
FOR15

Description

The West Wall (or the Sie 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 remilitarization 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 defense in visual depth, and discussing its fate in the wake of the Allied onslaught.