Passmore, Kevin The Maginot Line
A New History

Name: Passmore, Kevin: The Maginot Line
Brand: Yale University Press
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English text, 22 bw-photos. 486 pages.

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The Maginot Line was an engineering marvel of the 1930s. The huge fortifications, which lay up to eighty metres underground, housed hospitals, modern kitchens, telephone exchanges and even electric trains. Kilometres of underground passages led to casemates hidden in the terrain and towers that rose out of the ground to fire on the enemy. The fortifications were impregnable, even to the heaviest artillery and chemical warfare. Despite these extensive preparations, France fell to Germany in less than six weeks. Eight decades later, the Maginot Line is still remembered as an expensive and misguided response to an obvious danger. In this account, Kevin Passmore re-evaluates the Maginot Line. He traces the controversies surrounding its construction, describes the lives of the men who manned the fortifications, the impact on the German-speaking inhabitants of the border region, and the fight against espionage from within their own ranks. The Maginot Line was by no means a step backwards, but an ambitious modernisation project that was doomed to failure by strategic errors and growing dissatisfaction with the fortifications.

Author: Passmore, Kevin
Title: The Maginot Line
Details: English text, 22 bw-photos. 486 pages.
State: new
Subtitle: A New History

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