title: The Channel Islands 1941-45: Hitler's Impregnable Fortress
author:  Charles Stephenson 
description: All...told in a competent and interesting way by author Charles Stephenson. I found it fascinating as the Channel Islands are not what one normally thinks of when thinking about WWII... The illustrations of Chris Taylor are absolutely superb and along with his maps, give one a real sense of how intensive the fortifications really were... A truly interesting book on a sidelight of the war. One I found engrossing and I'm sure you will as well. <i>Scott Van Aken, modelingmadness.com</i>
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  SMASHING THE
  
  ATLANTIC WALL
  
  the destruction of hitler’s
  
  coastal fortresses
  
  
  
  Patrick Delaforce
  
  
  
  
  
  First published by Cassell & Co. in 2001
  
  
  
  Copyright (C) Patrick Delaforce 2001, 2005, 2006
  
  
  
  This edition published in 2021 by Lume Books
  
  30 Great Guildford Street,
  
  Borough, SE1 0HS
  
  
  
  The right of Patrick Delaforce to be identified as the author of this work has
  been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents
  Act, 1988.
  
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
  a retrieval system, or transmitted in photocopying, recording or otherwise,
  without the prior permission of the copyright owner.
  
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [ I ntroduction ](text00001.html#_Toc62826784) - [ The Cinderella War
  ](text00001.html#_Toc62826785)
  
  [ C hapter O ne ](text00001.html#_Toc62826786) - [ Adolf Hitler’s Fortress-
  ](text00001.html#_Toc62826787) [ Ports and the Secret Edicts
  ](text00001.html#_Toc62826788)
  
  [ C hapter T wo ](text00001