The Atlantic Wall (1): France

FURTHER READING

The Atlantic Wall has already been the subject of several previous Osprey Fortress books: my own on the D-Day beach fortifications (Fortress 37), Charles Stephenson’s on the Channel Islands (Fortress 41) and Gordon Williamson’s on U-boat bunkers (Fortress 3). There is a wealth of published material on the Atlantic Wall treating the subject from a wide variety of perspectives. Alain Chazette is the premier historian of the Atlantic Wall in France and has published the definitive site survey with his superb Atlantikwall-Südwall as well as many smaller and more specialized accounts. Harry Lippmann is publisher of the journal Deutsches Atlantik Wall Archiv Nachrichten specializing in Atlantic Wall issues and his special publications provide fine encyclopedic treatment of bunker types. Rudi Rolf’s multi-lingual Typology is the classic field guide to the standard types of bunkers. Wilt’s academic study is a broad survey of the Atlantic Wall program and has been recently republished. There are numerous specialized monographs on Atlantic Wall artillery. The US Army Office of the Chief of Military History commissioned a number of specialized monographs by captured German officers in the late 1940s as part of its Foreign Military Studies (FMS) program and these provide insight into the development and intended role of the Atlantic Wall from the German perspective.

Clearing the Channel Ports: Part V Canadian Participation in the Operations in North-West Europe 1944 Report No. 184, Historical Section, Canadian Military Headquarters

Development of the German Defence in the Dieppe Sector 1940–42 Report No. 36, Historical Section, Canadian Army Headquarters, March 1950

German Defences in the Courselles-St. Aubin Area of the Normandy Coast Report No. 41, Historical Section, Canadian Army Headquarters, July 1951

German Defence Preparations in the West Report No. 40, Historical Section, Canadian Army Headquarters, April 1951

German Permanent Fortifications US War Department Intelligence Division, 1945

German Seacoast Defenses—European Theater seven volumes, Seacoast Artillery Evaluation Board, US Forces, ETO, 1945

Report on German Concrete Fortifications Chief Engineer, HQ, US Army—ETO, 1944

Dosch, Xaver, Organization Todt: Operations in the West B-671

Gallenkamp, C., A Summary of the Development of Construction of the Atlantic Wall on the Bay of Biscay between the Spanish Border and the Loire C-022

Gersdorff, Gen.Maj. von. A., Critique of the Defense against the Invasion A-895

Goettke, Gen.Lt. Ernst, Preparations for the Defense of the Coast B-663

Krancke, Adm., Defensive Measures Against Invasion taken by Naval and Army Group HQ-West B-169

Pemsel, Max, Construction of the Atlantic Wall Part III: The preparations in the Invasion Area ‘til the end of January 1944 B-668

Schmester, Gen.Lt. Rudolf, Construction of the Atlantic Wall Part IV: The Effect of Bombs and Heavy Naval Guns on the Fortified Defense System of the Atlantic Wall B-669

Speidel, Gen.Lt. Hans, Ideas and Views of Genfldm Rommel on Defense and Operations in the West in 1944 B-720

Triepel, Gen.Maj., Coastal Artillery Sector 1-Cotentin from 6 June until 18 June 1944 B-260

Weissmann, Gen. Eugene, Flak in Coastal and Air Defense: the Atlantic Wall D-179

Zimmerman, Gen.Lt. Bodo, OB West: Atlantic Wall to Siegfried Line, Chapter 2: Preparation of Coastal Defenses Against Invasion B-308

Andersen, Patrick, Le Mur de l’Atlantique en Bretagne 1944–1994 Ouest-France, 1994

Braeuer, Luc, Forteresse Sainte-Nazaire: La marine allemande face aux Alliés Pulnoy, 2002

Braeuer, Luc, L’incroyable histoire de la Poche de Sainte-Nazaire Pulnoy, 2003

Breuer, William, Hitler’s Fortress Cherbourg: The Conquest of a Bastion Stein & Day, 1984

Chazette, Alain, et. al., Armament & Ouvrages de Forteresse du Mur de l’Atlantique Vol. 1 Histoire et Fortifications, 2006

Chazette, Alain, et al., Atlantikwall: Le mur de l’l’Atlantique en France 1940–1944 Heimdal, 1995

Chazette, Alain, Atlantikwall-Südwall Histoire et Fortifications, 2004

Chazette, Alain, Artillerie Côtière: Altantikwall et Südwall en France Fortifications et Patrimoine, 1999

Chazette, Alain, Les Batteries Côtières en France Vol. 1: Les batteries lourdes de Marine Histoire et Fortifications, 2004

Chazette, Alain, La Batterie Lindemann Histoire et Fortifications, 2001

Chazette, Alain, Le Mur de l’Atlantique en Normandie Heimdal, 2000

Chazette, Alain, Tobrouks Typologie: Atlantikwall-Südwall Histoire et Fortifications, 2004

Delaforce, Patrick, Smashing the Atlantic Wall: The Destruction of Hitler’s Coastal Fortresses Cassell, 2001

Desquenes, Rémy, Le Mur de l’Atlantique de Mont-Saint Michel au Tréport Ouest-France, 2004

Forty, George, Fortress Europe: Hitler’s Atlantic Wall Ian Allen, 2002

Kaufmann, J. E., and H.W., Fortress Third Reich Da Capo, 2003

Lepage, Jean-Denis, Les Obstacles du Mur de l’Atlantique self-published, 1997

Lippmann, Harry, Die Regelbauten des Heeres im Atlantikwall DAWA, 1986

Lippmann, Harry, Heeres-Regelbauten: Bildband DAWA, 1995

Lippmann, Harry, Die 5cm Kwk in Atlantikwall DAWA, 2003

Rolf, Rudi, Atlantic Wall Typology Beetsterzwaag, 1988

Rolf, Rudi, Der Atlantikwall: Perlenschnur aus Stahlbeton AMA, 1983

Ruge, Friedrich, Rommel in Normandy Presido, 1979

Sakkers, Hans, Festung St. Malo Koudekerke, 2001

Saunders, Anthony, Hitler’s Atlantic Wall Sutton, 2001

Schmeelke, Karl-Heinz, and Schmeelke, Michael, Fortress Europe: the Atlantic Wall Guns Schiffer, 1993

Schmeelke, Karl-Heinz, and Schmeelke, Michael, Guns on the Atlantic Wall Schiffer, 1998

Schmeelke, Michael, Alarm Küste: Deutsche Marine-, Heeres- und Luftwaffenbatterien in der Küstenverteidigung 1939–45 Dörfler, 2005

Wilt, Alan, The Atlantic Wall Enigma, 2004

Zimmermann, R. Heinz, Der Atlantikwall three volumes; Schild, 1986