A German infantry division, expected to attack a 5 km front, possessed 642 machine guns, some 128 per km. A French division had 480, with ninety-six per km, making the Maginot Line’s ...

Looking at the history of warfare, it is not surprising that Moscow was unprepared for this “Trojan Horse attack”: ...

Costing the French government over 3 billion Francs to construct, the Maginot Line was not one continuous ... made up of 75 ...

Like so many of the Nazis’ weapon designs, the Gustav gun was fantastically expensive and completely impractical.

A wave of public fury is crashing into the gun lobby’s Maginot Line. If that wave is passionate and intractable, well, those are the terms of battle established by the people who’ve been ...

An ammunition entrance on the Maginot Line.123RF / Not-For-Syndication Here we are met by Walter, a genial local guide who takes us up a slow incline to the left, past several WWII guns and up to ...

There are guns, there are really big guns ... France began building the Maginot Line in 1929, a 280-mile-long defensive fortification that started on the French side of the English Channel ...

The Maginot Line was to be France's Great Wall ... then they would be faced with bell turrets made up of 75 to 135mm retractable guns and multitudes of anti-tank, mortar and machine gun emplacements.