What is "maginot"

Usage examples of "maginot".

These self-sustaining concrete bunkers and gun emplacements went on for miles surrounded by hidden tank traps, a massive in-depth defense that was a kind of modern Maginot Line.

German panzer divisions had swept around the flanks of the Maginot line during the invasion of France in the Second World War.

British divisions, stretched from the end of the Maginot Line near Longwy to the Belgian frontier, and behind the frontiers to the sea in front of Dunkirk.

It was thought that on our southern flank the Ardennes were impassable for large modern armies, and south of that again began the regular fortified Maginot Line, stretching out to the Rhine and along the Rhine to Switzerland.

British General Staff and our headquarters in the field had long been anxious about the gap between the northern end of the Maginot Line and the beginning of the British fortified front along the Franco-Belgian frontier.

The spreading of forty-three divisions, or half the mobile French army, from Longwy to the Swiss frontier, the whole of which was either defended by the Maginot Line forts or by the broad, swift-flowing Rhine, with its own fortress system behind it, was an improvident disposition.

German effort was directed through Luxembourg against the left of the Maginot Line or through Maastricht towards Brussels.

Alsace, from the Maginot Line, from Africa, and from every other quarter, were to form a front along the Somme.

France, behind the Somme, the 51st Highland Division, which had been withdrawn from the Maginot Line and was in good condition, and the 52d Lowland Division, which was arriving in Normandy.

Once these are made, all troops employed on other parts of the coastal crust will be as useless as those in the Maginot Line.

He points to a bazooka shell propped against the sand that depicts the Bar-Lev, the Israeli version of the Maginot line.

An hour later the Sikorsky carried the General to the Maginot Line of silent saucers.

The most General Gamelin, the Chief of the General Staff, would do - and did - was concentrate thirteen divisions near the German frontier, but merely to reinforce the Maginot Line.

Franco-German border, since it would have forced France to scrap her Maginot Line, her last protection against a surprise German attack.

Within this area lay all the vast Czech fortifications which hitherto had formed the most formidable defensive line in Europe, with the possible exception of the Maginot Line in France.