HITLER'S SECRET HEADQUARTERS

The Führer's wartime bases, from the invasion of France to the Berlin Bunker. Whilst observing the crushing early campaigns in Poland and Yugoslavia from special "Führer-trains", Hitler decided that for the invasion of France, his foray into the Soviet Union and the defence of the Atlantic coastline against Allied counter-attacks, he needed solid, impenetrable headquarters. To that end twenty thousand workers were employed in the construction of concrete bunkers that stretched from the middle of France deep into Ukraine. Throughout the course of the war the bunkers allowed Hitler to successfully evade Allied detection and afforded him an extraordinary level of personal protection. Drawing on the diaries of Siegfried Schmelcher, head of the construction project, and Leo Muller, site supervisor, this unique book is the first-ever comprehensive record of all Hitler's bunkers and command centres, including those built and used, those under construction and those that never got past the planning stage.