The problem was that Maginot Line, a great line of fortifications that ... The dotted lines across from Belgium and Switzerland in this map designate "rural fortifications." Invasion was even ...

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

WIESBADEN, Germany - History was not kind to the grand ideas of French Minister of War Andre Maginot. As the namesake for the massive line of fortifications intended to stop Germany from ever ...

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 ...

In the 1930s the Maginot Line was viewed as a military marvel, an impregnable network of underground fortifications stretching along France's border with Germany — from Belgium to Switzerland ...

WIESBADEN, Germany - History was not kind to the grand ideas of French Minister of War Andre Maginot. As the namesake for the massive line of fortifications intended to stop Germany from ever ...

In the 1930s the Maginot Line was viewed as a military marvel, an impregnable network of underground fortifications stretching along France's border with Germany — from Belgium to Switzerland ...