The problem was that Maginot Line, a great line of fortifications that spanned France's borders with several ... from Belgium and Switzerland in this map designate "rural fortifications." ...

Enough was enough and something had to be done to stop the easy access into France from the east. That something was the ...

This is somewhat like a 21st version of the Atlantic Wall or the Maginot Line. However, the new plan and having military ... have already reached the bottom of the ocean. Here is seafloor map of the ...

The French would just as soon forget the Maginot Line. France spent 11 years and $450 ... Google Earth, and paper maps to plan his trips, making more than 50 in all. It wasn't unusual for him ...

Even though millions of French troops were manning the defensive Maginot Line in early 1940, Hitler's brilliant blitzkrieg strategy caught the Allies by surprise, and Germany occupied France ...

Nazi Germany invaded Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, swinging 89 army divisions around France's so-called impregnable Maginot Line.

The Maginot Line is a giant: Thousands of underground bunkers and concrete defences lining the French border, from Belgium to the Mediterranean. In its time it was celebrated as a technical ...