Smashing the Atlantic Wall: The Destruction of Hitler's Coastal Fortresses

After Hitler reluctantly halted his proposed invasion of Britain in the autumn of 1940, he immediately ordered, by secret edict, the building of an Atlantic Wall. It was a monumental task--made up of 1,500 steel and concrete defensive strongpoints, stretching over four coastlines--and completely designed by the Führer himself. Using material from British, American, and Canadian archives, one of today's top military historians pieces together a unique, barely known story from the war--and memorializes the Allied soldiers caught behind it in appalling conditions.