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This work takes a look at the formidable U-boat bases and bunkers built on the French coast (Brest, Lorient, St Nazaire, La Pallice, Bourdeaux), in Norway (Bergen, Trondheim), and Germany (Keil, Hamburg, Helgoland), and also focuses on the huge "Valentin" factory complex at Bremen, which manufactured the new type XXI electro-boats. Bunker protective systems, such as camouflage, light and heavy flak installations and nearby air cover are also covered.
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Gordon Williamson was born in 1951 and currently works for the Scottish Land Register. He spent seven years with the Military Police TA and has published a number of books and articles on the decorations of the Third Reich and their winners. He is the author of a number of World War II titles for Osprey. Ian Palmer is a highly experienced digital artist. A graduate in 3D design, he has provided illustrations for many publications, from modelling James Bond's Aston Martin to recreating lunar landings. He lives and works in London with his wife and three cats.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The lairs of Hitler's steel sharks - a real story sometimes stranger than science-fiction
2 Dec 2011
Format:Paperback
One of the most succesful achievements of Nazi war machine were the colossal bunkers build for U-Boats, mainly in Germany, France and Norway. Those cyclopean structures resisted every attempt to destroy them, causing during the whole war an indescriptible fury and frustration amongst Allies war leaders. Some of those build in occupied France were used for many years after war by French submarine force - and French military still uses most of them today.
This book describes very well and in a very interesting way the story of their conception and construction, the way they were used, repaired and improved, as well as the efforts of allies to destroy them - and how those attempts failed. The defenses of U-Boat bases (radars, guns, fighter patrols, naval mine fields, anti-aircraft balloons, etc.) are described in detail, as is daily life of people who lived and worked there. All of this illustrated with a great number of very well selected war time images.
There are also colour plates, but they are not all satisfying. The first two (long range defenses and construction of a base) do not present any interest and are a waste of place. The third one, illustrating short range defences of a base, is a very well done and very instructive one. The plate number four, "Inside a U Boat base" is also a good one, resuming in one image the unique atmosphere of those places. The plate number five, showing the monstrous "Bruno" bunker in Bergen (Norway) is very impressive, as well as the plate number six (on double page), describing the most gigantic U-Boat base in Lorient (France). The plate number seven shows an installation almost as impressive - a bunker-based shipyard in Bremen (Germany) where the super modern type XXI U Boats were supposed to be build in great numbers (the war ended a couple of days before the first one was completed in this facility).
There is also a chapter listing and commenting all the U-Boat bases and facilities (not always as strongly fortified) during WWII, from command post for Arctic in Narvik (Norway) beyond the polar circle, and Libau (Latvia), home of 25 Flotilla close to Leningrad, to naval base of 12 Flotilla at Bordeaux (southern France). The list includes also some very surprising places: Pola (today in Croatia) and Salamis (Greece) which were the bases for 29 Flotilla, Constanza (Romania) and Feodosia (today in Ukraine), homes for 30 Flotilla, but also Singapore, Penang (Malaysia), Batavia (today Jakarta, capital of Indonesia) and even Kobe (Japan)!
This is a little book, but very well conceived and filled with well presented data and also some interesting anecdotes. I think that anybody interested in WWII history, naval history, submarine warfare or fortifications will find it irresistible. I certainly enjoyed studying it and I learned a lot.
This book describes very well and in a very interesting way the story of their conception and construction, the way they were used, repaired and improved, as well as the efforts of allies to destroy them - and how those attempts failed. The defenses of U-Boat bases (radars, guns, fighter patrols, naval mine fields, anti-aircraft balloons, etc.) are described in detail, as is daily life of people who lived and worked there. All of this illustrated with a great number of very well selected war time images.
There are also colour plates, but they are not all satisfying. The first two (long range defenses and construction of a base) do not present any interest and are a waste of place. The third one, illustrating short range defences of a base, is a very well done and very instructive one. The plate number four, "Inside a U Boat base" is also a good one, resuming in one image the unique atmosphere of those places. The plate number five, showing the monstrous "Bruno" bunker in Bergen (Norway) is very impressive, as well as the plate number six (on double page), describing the most gigantic U-Boat base in Lorient (France). The plate number seven shows an installation almost as impressive - a bunker-based shipyard in Bremen (Germany) where the super modern type XXI U Boats were supposed to be build in great numbers (the war ended a couple of days before the first one was completed in this facility).
There is also a chapter listing and commenting all the U-Boat bases and facilities (not always as strongly fortified) during WWII, from command post for Arctic in Narvik (Norway) beyond the polar circle, and Libau (Latvia), home of 25 Flotilla close to Leningrad, to naval base of 12 Flotilla at Bordeaux (southern France). The list includes also some very surprising places: Pola (today in Croatia) and Salamis (Greece) which were the bases for 29 Flotilla, Constanza (Romania) and Feodosia (today in Ukraine), homes for 30 Flotilla, but also Singapore, Penang (Malaysia), Batavia (today Jakarta, capital of Indonesia) and even Kobe (Japan)!
This is a little book, but very well conceived and filled with well presented data and also some interesting anecdotes. I think that anybody interested in WWII history, naval history, submarine warfare or fortifications will find it irresistible. I certainly enjoyed studying it and I learned a lot.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A good intersting serie from Osprey
7 Dec 2003
Format:Paperback
The fortress serie from Osprey is quite interesting as it covers a topic only previously browsed by specialized books (and thus expensive). The "U-Boat Bases and Bunkers" is a good start for whom want to know a little more about those concrete pens. 3D illustrations and present day pictures of the unbreakable survivors illustrate this book. The only drawback is that it lacks some infos about civil engineering (concrete technology, jobsites evolutions,..) and about the norvegian sites.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Good basic book on U Boat Bases
6 Jan 2006
Format:Paperback
This is one of the better books I have seen for a description of what the pens and bases look like. Some illustrations are a tad dark, but still of great interest. Good buy.
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