As tensions mounted in Europe during the 1930s, France invested heavily in the massive Maginot Line, a nearly 300-mile ...

There’s nothing like a visit to France to get away from a German summer of nonstop rain or unairconditioned buildings during a heat wave. The escape is even better when the attraction in France is ...

Determined to break through the massive fortifications of France’s Maginot Line, Nazi Germany embarked on an extraordinary engineering project during the late 1930s—the construction of the largest ...

The Germans later turned on the line and captured it from the rear, taking more than 500,000 prisoners.Although not technically part of the Maginot Line, a similar line of fortifications was built ...

The Karl-Gerät, literally the Karl-Device, was one of Nazi Germany’s largest siege mortars, and one of the biggest mortars ever built. It is difficult to overstate both the Karl-Gerät’s size... Here’s ...

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 ...

On May 27, Poland confirmed it will fortify 700 kilometers of its eastern border. The loud whispers Poland would dig in to defend itself -- huge forts on the eastern front! -- began last year.

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 ...