Double Crime In The Maginot Line

The Maginot Line was an enormous testimonial to just how little France had learned from the carnage of the trenches in WW I. Instead of placing their emphasis on mobility, avoiding the static conditions of that war, the French decided that what was obviously needed was the biggest, deepest trench in the world, a string of interconnected fortifications, pillboxes, machine-gun nests, minefields, and antitank obstacles. Faced with this formidable array in 1940, the Germans simply drove their tanks around it, through Belgium, and decisively destroyed the combined French and British armies in less than two weeks. In this relic, the new commander of the Line is murdered ...