The Forts and Fortifications of Europe, 1815-1945: The Central States: Germany, Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia

An authoritative history of the defensive lines built in Central Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

After the Napoleonic Wars the borders of Central Europe were redrawn and relative peace endured across the region, but the volatile politics of the late nineteenth century generated an atmosphere of fear and distrust, and it gave rise to a new era of fortress building, and this is the subject of this highly illustrated new study. The authors describe how defensive line...