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 ...

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 ...

A complex system of heavily fortified concrete and steel-reinforced bunkers, the Maginot Line would ensure that France could repel a German invasion like the one they had been subjected to in 1914.

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

The Maginot Line arose neither from French cowardice nor stupidity. It was conceived because of babies—or rather, a lack of babies. France in 1939 had a population of about forty million.

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 ...

"In the spring of 1940, I was sent with a small detachment to the village of Woippy in Lorraine, near Metz, to service a British brigade serving in the Maginot line. The rail journey took 48 hours ...