Название: Hitler's Gateway to the Atlantic: German Naval Bases in France 1940-1945
Автор: Lars Hellwinkel
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1848321996
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 18,3 МБ
Язык: Английский
Employing new research from both German and French sources, the author examines the role that the French Atlantic ports played for the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War. When the Wehrmacht overran France in May and June of 1940, the German navy's dream of access to the Atlantic was realised, and Brest, Lorient, St Nazaire, La Pallice and Bordeaux were converted into naval bases for surface, U-boat and auxiliary cruiser operations, though it is only the heavily fortified U-boat bunkers that have received any attention to date.