From the North Sea to Okinawa

A rusting antiaircraft fort in the North Sea. A German submarine base in France. A flak tower in a Viennese park—more than 70 years after the end of World War II, its legacy can still be seen from Europe to Japan.

Included here are defensive structures, such as the Maginot Line on France’s eastern border with Germany, Germany’s own western and eastern border defenses, and the Atlantic Wall, the German-built bunkers and pillboxes on the coast from Denmark down to Brittany. But beyond the military installations, the book explores the ruins of concentration camps, the empty village of Oradour-Sur-Glane, Hitler’s mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden, and the dilapidated Nazi Party rally grounds in Nuremberg, among other nonmilitary places.

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