The Atlantic Wall (2): Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark and Norway

A highly illustrated guide to some of the most impressive fortifications of World War II – the defences of the Atlantic Wall from Belgium to Norway.

Following its conquest of Western Europe, Germany had to defend some 5,000km of Atlantic coastline from the Spanish border to the Arctic Circle - the most ambitious fortification program of World War II. The United States' entry into the war and the inevitability of an Anglo-American landing in Western Europe resulted in the fortification of thi...