Osprey Fortress 37 : D-Day Fortifications in Normandy

German defences along the Normandy beaches were part of the larger Atlantic Wall fortifications designed to defend Fortress Europe. When Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took command of the invasion front in late 1943, he began a program to enhance fortifications along the Normandy coast as he believed that any Allied assault had to be stopped on the invasion beaches themselves. His most important contribution to the defences was an extensive program of improvised beach obstructions to complicate any landing attempt. This book analyses these fortifications and describes how the Allied forces overcame them on the morning of D-Day June 6, 1944. Text by Steven J Zaloga with illustrations by Hugh Johnson.

Contents

• Introduction
• Design and Development Tour of the Sites
• The Living Site
• The Site in War
• Aftermath
• The Site Today
• Further Reading
• Index