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Les ports français - Les ports de L'Atlantique 1939-1945

By Buffetaut, Yves
(The French ports - The Atlantic ports 1939-1945)
1995, Marines Editions
ISBN 2909675149
155 pages
book is in French language

Descripton: The history of the five famous U-boat bases of the Atlantic coast: Brest, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire, La Pallice, Bordeaux; the arrival of the Kriegsmarine in those places; the Allied bombings and attacks (the English raid on Saint-Nazaire in 1942); the capitulation of Festung Lorient and Festung Gironde. Note that the French revue "Marines" printed several very well documented issues on the campaigns of the Battle of the Atlantic.

L'histoire des cinq bases de sous-marins jalonnant la côte atlantique: Brest, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire, La Pallice, et Bordeaux. Ce livre raconte l'implantation de la Kriegsmarine dans ces agglomérations; les attaques et bombardements alliés (l'incursion anglaise contre Saint-Nazaire en 1942); et la capitulation des Festungen de Lorient et de Gironde.