Whiting, Charles (aka Leo Kessler), - SIEGFRIED - The Nazis Last Stand.![]() Leo Cooper in assoc. with Secker and Warburg, London, 1983, 2nd imp., [xii], viii, 268pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 6 in text maps, brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, three months after D-Day, in September 1944, the allies had reached the German Siegfried Line or Hitler's 'West Wall' which ran along the frontier between Germany and Belgium, Luxembourg and France, where the retreating German troops turned to face the enemy in prepared positions, not just a line of forts but a formidable defence in depth comprising some 14,000 bunkers and pillboxes averaging two and a half miles for the length of the Line, upper edge faintly foxed, very sl. bow to upper board, dustwrapper: price clipped with publishers price label added, lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good plus dustwrapper, GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 11 US$ 12.61 | JP¥ 1858] Book number 35684is offered by:
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