Hello
I would like to introduce our new book about the Naval Artillery of the West Wall along the Upper Rhine Valley in Germany.
Titel: Die Marinegeschütze des Westwalls am Oberrhein.
Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der deutschen Westbefestigungen
Author: Sascha Kuhnert & Friedrich Wein
Contens : The
complete history of the 10,5cm Ubts- u. Tbts-K L/45, 17cm SK L/40-, 24cm SK L/50-, 28cm H L/12-, 30,5cm SK L/50- and the depth charge batteries, their guns, their bunkers, their crews, their activities and role in the german Westwall during Oktober 1938 - June 1940 in the German Upper Rhien Valley.
We descripe every of those naval guns and ammunitions and their technical history and details in a own chapters. Also the history of the 24cm SK L/50 Batterie "Oldenburg" and the 30,5cm SK L/50 Batterie "Friedrich-August" before their guns came to the Westwall is very detailed descriped with batterie plans, drawaings and picture at own chapters. We can also give detailed information about the places and batteries from where the 17cm SK L/40 naval guns came from as well as we offer new information about the source area of the two ex. russian 10 Inch coastal guns which became later the 24cm guns of the Batterie "Oldenburg". Also the modification work of those guns which happend already in the late 1920s and complety illegal and secretly at Krupp is descriped which historical picture and technical drawings. We also tell what happend to third barrel of the splitted 30,5cm SK L/50 Batterie "Friedrich-August" meanwhile the two went to the Westwall and untile all three god united in Sommer 1940 at the Altantikwall.
In the same way we descripe the construction of every batterie emplacment and every Westwall bunker for those naval guns of the Regelbau 30, 30a, 34, 35, 36 and the housing bunkers for the gun crews as well as water suply and telecommunication bunkers and never realised projects for similar bunkers for naval weapons at the river Rhein in Germany. The activities and actions of all the Westwall Naval Batteries during the time of the Phoney War and during the attac of the 7th German Army (General Dollmann) over the Rhine into Alsace at Battle of France is the biggest chapter of the book and there we present the detailed dates and numbers of rounds of the shootings, the targets in France, the result and also the reason why the order had been given for every shot, as well as the reactions of the french artillery which was shooting back from Alsace. Als as part of this chapter we also provide a complete description of the moment of charging, aiming, firing and reloading illustrated by original photos of the 30,5cm SK L/50 Batterie Ottenhöfen which was as "Schwere Stellungsbatterie 230 Ottenhöfen" the heaviest of all Westwall batteries. We also descripe the cooperation work of the Westwall Naval Batteries and the german railway guns in the Upper Rhine Valley at that time, as well as several artillery duels with the french guns over the river Rhein untile the end of the Battle of France.
Furthermore we give by historical picture and reports of crew members an overview of the removal and activities of those Westwall Naval Batteries to the Atlantikwall at Calais and to the Krim Peninsula at the Black Sea after June of 1940. We descripe also the rearmament work of the Westwall Naval Batteries at the Upper Rhine Valley of 1944 and 1945 and their fightings untile the end of the war with drawings, sketches and picture. Finally there is a whole chapter about the demolition work of the naval batteries and their bunkers at the Upper Rhine Valley after the end of the war and their remainings nowadays buy "then and now" picture comparisons. The book with its 640 pages is a resulat of more than 10 years of research work in several archivs all over Europe and in the field, as well as interviewing crew members and local witnesses to history.
Titel : Die Marinegeschütze des Westwalls am Oberrhein.
Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der deutschen Westbefestigungen
Author : Sascha Kuhnert & Friedrich Wein
Contents pages : B&W and color photo's , drawings, sketches, maps, schematics, text
Piture : 489 pictures= 350 historical photos, 100 current photos, 30 sketches, 2 schematics, 7 maps
Cover : Hardcover
Language : German
Pages : 640 (!)
size : A4
weight : 2.6 kg
ISBN : 978-3-937779-29-4
Puplished by : Explorate-Verlag
Price : 35.00 Euro + porto
Order :
http://www.explorate-verlag.de/buecher/ ... 0bf0f88d02or
http://www.fortress-books.com/uk/fortre ... id=5508540As additional information I will put here some picture from pages of our book in the order of its chapters. If there is an interest of more picture or any questions about the book just let me know.
Greetings Saska
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by jopaerya on 04 Apr 2012 18:37 
. . . are the Channel Islands included?
