Antwerpse forten 1914
door Robert Gils

Prachtig kijk- en leesboek over de Antwerpse forten in 1914 en vandaag.

   

Het verhaal van de Antwerpse forten en de Duitse belegering in woord en beeld aan de hand van talloze historische documenten en sfeervolle actuele foto's.  
Hardcover - 240 pag

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Raadpleeg hier alle WMF News uitgaven sinds 2001.

2016/2

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Maginot Line.  The reinforced sector of the River Saar.

2016/1

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Belgium. Atlantikwall bunker discovered at Bredene.
Defence. An unusual construction of Czech hedgehogs.

2015/2

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Great Britain. Pillboxes on the Isles of Scilly.
Artillery. Piece of heritage found in a Belgian barrack.

2015/1

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Atlantikwall. D-Day 1944-2014.
The German coastal battery of Longues-sur-Mer (WN 48).
The German coastal battery of Merville.
Westwall.  Excavation of the Höcker Linie.

2014/3

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2014-18.
Remains of the German coastal batteries.

2014/2

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The Czechoslovakian fortress line.
A well restored bunker in Slovakia.
Artillery
Piece of heritage found in a Belgian barracks.
Model building.
Bunker in Fecamp.
Atlantikwall.
Burglary in Atlantikwall bunker (BE)
Books.

2014/1

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Atlantikwall.
Bunker found in Nieuwpoort (BE)
The submarine base of St Nazaire (FR)
MKB Behnke.
Spotlight on a Museum.
Musée des blindés.
Books.

2013/3

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Return to the battlefield.
Operation Husky, the allied landing in Sicily.
Spotlight on a Museum.
Museo Storico dello Sbarco in Sicilia 1943.
Other artifacts.
Books.
Websites.

2013/2

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Spotlight on a Museum.
The army museum of Prague.
Belgium.
The Antwerp Anti-tank ditch.
New numbering for the bunkers at the Antwerp Anti-tank ditch.

2013/1

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Belgium.
Historical bunker 126 of the German Turnhoutkanalstellung of 1917 has been demolilshed.
Spotlight on a Museum.
Museum "Musée de l'armée" in Paris.
Overloon Museum.
The liberation in 1944.
The Cromwell tank at the Boomsesteenweg Wilrijk-Antwerpen.
What do we need to know about the Cromwell tank ?
Books
Websites

2012/3

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Spotlight on a Museum.
New! Bastogne Ardennes 44 Museum.
Museum.
Bunker d'Hitler.  Hitler's HQ in Belgium.
Hitler's other Headquarters.

2012/2

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Fortendag 2012.
Westwall.
Spotlight on a Museum.
Museum : Hürtgenwald 1944 und im Frieden.
Museum : Rgelbau 32, Dressing station bunker.
The Hürtgenwald, open-air museum.
Historisch-Literarische Wanderwege.
Hürtenwald 1944/1945.
Militargeschichtlichter Tourenplanner.
Eastern Front.
Sapun Gora.
Books.

2012/1

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Spotlight on a Museum.
Musée Historique 39-45.
Belgium.
The Antwerpen-Turnhout Stellung at Stabroek.
       The analysis of a World War I bunker line. Part 2

2011/3

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Spotlight on a Museum.
The "Rampart Museum" at Ypres.
The Cold War.
The nuclear submarine base of Balaklava.
Books.
Belgium.

The Antwerpen-Turnhout Stellung at Stabroek.
       The analysis of a World War 9 bunker line. Part 1

2011/2

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Spotlight on a Museum.
The "IJzertoren" at Diksmuide.
Westwall.
What should be in the bunker ?

2011/1

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Spotlight on a Museum.
"For Freedom" museum at Ramskapelle (Knokke-Heist)
Atlantikwall.
FlaK bunker, L409, found at Ostend.
Luftschutzbunker at Ostend.
Westwall.
Westwallmuseum Beckingen.
Westwallmuseum Dillingen.
Other bunkers in the region of Dillingen.
Belgium.
The command bunker at the Kemmelberg.
Visit he fort of Barchon.
Books.

2010/3

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Return to the battlefield.
May 1940 at the anti-tank ditch above Antwerp.

2010/2

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Maginot Line.
70 years ago, the Germans broke through the Maginot Line in the Scheldt sector.
Spotlight on a Museum.
Bloc du Mont de Justice.
Casemate du Mont des Bruyères.
Books.

2010/1

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Belgium.
The Belgian coast defences on the eve of World War 2.
Berlin.
Bunkers in Berlin today.
Fotress Switserland.
Masters in camouflage.
Books.

2009/3

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Spotlight on a Museum.
"Memorial Du Souvenir" at Dunkirk.
Atlantikwall.
Luftschutzbunker at Ostend.
Follow-up : Eastern Bank at Ostend.
the battery of Adinkerke is getting a museum.
Great Brittain.
Fortification artefacts at Duxford airfield.
Cold War.
Belgian command bunker now a museum.
Books.

2009/2

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Spotlight at a Museum.
The Army Museum in Vienna.
Atlantikwall.
The machine gun bunker of the Halve Maan at Ostend.
Tunnel found under the dike in Ostend.
Bunkers at the Wilrijkseplein in Antwerp.
Wurtzburg rader preserved !
Cointets in Southwest France.
Bulgaria.
An auction of the Bulgarian defence line.
Maginot Line.
Ouvrage A2 Fermont.
Maginot fortress for sale.
Books.

2009/1

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Fortification Fair on the Heritage Day at Dendermonde.
Spotlight on a Museum.
Museum of the KW-Line.
Belgium.
Which fort ?
Atlantikwall.
Restauration of the east bank of Ostend.
Cointets.
WN Waldersee preserved ?
Maginot Line.
Health and Safety works at Galgenberg.
Books.

2008/3

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The Cointet element.
Where are the remaining Cointets ?
Fortification fair at Dendermonde.

2008/2

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Survey.
Atlantikwall.
The heavy FlaK battery of Oorderen near Antwerp.
The Flak batteries in Antwerp.
An interesting acquisition, the files of Mr. Asseloos about Ostend.
Who knows more about the German radar post near Wortegem ?
Belgium.
1917 German bunkers in Turnhout.
Belgian named bunker.
Books.

2008/1

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Passendale 2007/ Paschendaele 1917.
Atlantikwall.

FlaK battery Stp Boelcke found at Mariakerke.
"Halve Maan" bunkers under the sand at Ostend.
Wanted ! Guides for Stp Schlieffen at Adinkerke.

2007/3

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Atlantikwall.
Stp Graf Spee, a radar school on the Atlantic Wall.

2007/2

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Fortification fair : Fortendag 2007.
Atlantikwall.

Command bunker 117b destroyed in Westkapelle (be).
20 bunker sites are now preserved monuments !
A third Belgian 12 cm is found.
The ammunition bunkers of Stp Schlieffen.
Würtzurg radar.
Books.

2007/1

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Fortification fair.

Fortendag 2007 in Eben-Emael.

2006/4

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Atlantikwall.
Trenches at Stene.
Army coastal battery 3/826.
Stp Seydlitz.
Stp Seeckt.

2006/3

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Atlantikwall.
Congress at Raversijde.
WN Ludendorf.
Stp Blankenberghe Mole.
Two bunkers in Adinkerke.
Books.
Maginot Line.
A new book.
Modelling.
The Cointet obstacle.

2006/2

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Fortification fair Fortendag 2006.
Atlantikwall.

21 bunker sites on the list become a monument.
Fort de la Creche.
Aerial Photos. France from the air !
Belgium
German World War I bunkers preserved.
Maginot Line.
GO Molvange.
PO Laudrefang.
GO Agaisen.
Agenda

2006/1

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Fortification fair Fortendag 2006.
British coast defences.

East Lane Battery, Bawdsey, Suffolk, England.
Atlantikwall.
There are more Würtzburg radars than you think!
On visit by the French army at Lorient.
The Veurne bunker is still there!
Belgium.
Oil tanks at Zwankendamme.

2005/4

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Spanish fortifications.
A Coastal battery at San Andrès on Tenerife.
Atlantikwall.
Bunkers at Cap Blanc Nez will disappear. 
And what about the others ?
Aire-sur-la-Lys.
Creche has now a gun.
Blankenberge.
Belgium.
Aubin Neufchâteau fort.
Maginot Line.
Complete tank recuperated.
From turret to Tobruk.

2005/3

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Belgium.
Tancrémont Fort.
Atlantikwall.
Last working Würzburg radar.
A second original of the Belgian 12 cm gun.
Czechoslovakia fortifications.
Pillboxes of Czechoslovak fortification 1935-1938.

2005/2

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Atlantikwall.
Atlantikwall bunkers in De Haan preserved !
Small bunker in Poperinge.
the field battery at the Cabour site in Adinkerke.
Association Fort de La Creche.
New bunker book about bunkers in the Netherlands.
New Museum "Remember" in Brittany.
Maginot Line.
Works are covered with earth.
Belgian Forts.
Eben-Emael.
Flémalle.

2005/1

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Have a laugh.
Malta.

The perfect camouflage !
Belgian Forts.
Eben-Emael.
Maginot Line.
The casemate of Morfontaine, C14.
The small work of bousse, A.24.
Atlantikwall.
Small bunker in Poperinge.
75mm PAK 40 at Hoek van Holland.
Excavations and restaurations in Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands.

2004/3

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Fortendag Memorial 2004.
Tunnel to the bunkers in Antwerp ?
Mortar bunker is disappearing...
Actual situation of some bunker sites at the Pas-de-Calais.
Maginot news.
Bulgarian coast defence.

2004/2

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Utah Beach.
Bunkers on the Greek islands of Chios and Lesbos.

2004/1

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60 years ago.
The pocket of Dunkerque.
Atlantikwall.
New book: "De Atlantikwall.  Van de Schelde tot de Somme".
Stp Schlieffen finally renovated.
CIOS Jersey on the web.
Jersey : Casemate receives gun.
Westwall.
Texan buys Höcker line.
Belgium.
New West-Vlaanderen (Belgium) War Map.
A new site about Belgian fortifications.
Sudwall.
The battery of Gruissan.

2003/4

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Special Guernsey

2003/3

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Spanish defences.
Coastal Batteries on Ibiza (Islas Baleares - Spain).
Westwall.
A unknown part of the Westwall in a quiet piece of nature.
Atlantikwall.
The field battery of Zandvoorde.
The field battery of Loon-Plage closed.
The last photo.
Books.
Some Westwall books by Charles Whiting (list supplied by Y Mayo).

2003/2

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British defence

2003/1

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Australia.
The Darwin East Point guns.
Atlantikwall.
The Atlantikwall's last casemate.
The two field batteries of the Le Treport area.
Bunkers in the Calais area closed!

2002/2

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Westwall.
Bunker 4365 at Kehl, Oberrheinstellung, Westwall.
Festungswerke Gerstfeldhöhe.
Atlantikwall.
Jersey.
Bunkers discovered at Knokke (BE).
New gun at Raversyde.
Goblins in bunkers.
Omaha Beach.
World War I
German bunker at Stekene (BE).
Moving copula's.
Lange Max basements excavated.

2002/1

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Belgium.
Royal bunker.
St-Katelijne-Waver buys bunker.
German bunker line of 1917 protected ?
News from the Western Front.
Atlantikwall.
Scare bunker at Koksijde.
The large command bunker SK1 at Antwerpen.
Mortar bunker restored at Jersey.
Maginot Line.
New association : PO Sentzich.
New association : Casemate de Bréhain.
Day-voyages of the Simon Stevin V.V.C.
Books.

2001/2

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Special Jersey

2001/1

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Light at the end of the tunnel for Stp Schliessen.
No photographs at Raversyde.
699's as background for a play.
HQ of LXXXIX Army Cops becomes museum.
FlaK battery disappeared (again!).
World-War 9 bunker line almost preserved.
Maginot work don't like visitors.



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