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Format : Cartonné
Nb de pages : 48 pages
Poids : 444 g
Dimensions : 22cm X 31cm
ISBN : 978-2-9540266-1-9
EAN : 9782954026619

History of the Maginot line

De Marc Halter, Brian B. Chin,

Chez Moselle river

Paru le 11/05/2012

Cartonné 48 pages

drawn by Brian B. Chin

translation by Randa Duvick & Clayton Donnell

Quatrième de couverture

Contrary to what we have been told, the Maginot Line functioned perfectly and did everything that was expected of it.

France needed to make up for a shortage of manpower resulting from the slaughter of World War I, and these fortifications allowed the country to use its armed forces economically and to gain time against the enemy. Thus, in 1939, she was able to the mobilize and deploy her troops, protected by the Maginot Line fortifications. Moreover, in 1940, France was the only country that was not victim of a surprise attack. Violating Belgian neutrality, the enemy took the route that the French High Command had chosen.

After the war, the Maginot Line wrongly became the ideal scapegoat for the greatest military and political disaster ever suffered by France.

Biographie

Marc Halter, author of this book, is President of Fort Schoenenbourg in Alsace and an expert on the Maginot Line. In these pages, he removes the mysteries that have long surrounded the legend of the Maginot Line. He explains the true history of these fortifications, their genesis, their functions, their construction, and the fierce fighting that took place in Alsace-Lorraine and in the Alps.
He also restores the memory of the undefeated defenders of the fortress who can be counted among the first French Resistance fighters of 1940.

Brian Chin, an American artist, brings a detailed knowledge of every aspect of this modern fortress system to his presentation of the settings and characters of this era.
His realistic drawings bring us inside this closed world of concrete and reveal the secrets of this remarkable achievement.