Atlantikwall - Batteries and Bunkers

After several, mainly Dutch and German publications on the Atlantikwall Rudi Rolf compiled a brand new book in English: Atlantikwall, Batteries and Bunkers. The book combines the elaborate content of the German publication Atlantikwall, die Bauten der deutschen Küstenbefestigungen (1998) and the systematic approach in the trilingual Atlantic Wall Typology (2004).

Essential German documents, like the minutes of Atlantikwall meetings with Adolf Hitler, are printed in translation, while exhaustive lists of bunkers built and batteries constructed are depicted together with clear maps of coastal sectors. The historical description of the Atlantic Rampart is preceded by an introduction on German fortification with the Imperial fortresses, the Flanders Coast during WW I and German rearmament in the 1930s, culminating in the construction of the Oder-Warthe-Bogen and the Westwall (Siegfried Line), as well as the fortification of the German isles (Heligoland).