FORT DU HACKENBERG, 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 ...

Key Point: Not unlike many an expensive military project, the Maginot Line was not all it was advertised to be. According to the standard telling of the tale, the Maginot Line, the most expensive ...

Perhaps unfairly, the chain of French World War II fortifications known as the Maginot Line has become a symbol of folly. The line itself was well-built and ...

According to the standard telling of the tale, the Maginot Line, the most expensive military project ever undertaken at the time—the F-35 of it’s day—was a mighty, nigh-unassailable fortification, ...

FORT DU HACKENBERG, 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. Winding ...

World War I decimated generations of people in countless countries. France was especially ravaged, with over 8,000 square miles of its territory occupied by the Germans during the war and, more ...

The Maginot Line was arguably the most sophisticated system of fortifications in history. Kilometers thick at points, it had observation posts, anti-tank ditches, fortresses with retractable turrets, ...

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 again ...

This French line of defense, constructed during the 1930s along the border with Germany, is named after Minister of War André Maginot. It extends from La Ferté to the Rhine River, with sections also ...