Download or read book Smashing the Atlantic Wall written by Patrick Delaforce and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immediately after Hitler halted his proposed invasion of Britain in 1940, he secretly ordered the building of an Atlantic Wall. Using material from British, American, and Canadian archives, a top military historians pieces together a unique, barely known story from the war--and memorializes the Allied soldiers caught behind it in appalling conditions.