Book Description
France's top Maginot Line experts have combined efforts to produce this heavily illustrated first volume in a three-volume treatment of the troops and structures of this mammoth undertaking. Volume I concentrates on the design and construction of the fortresses of Northeastern France. From 1935 to 1940 an entire new branch of the French Army was created to garrison the Line. Uniforms, badges and insignia of all 41 regiments are covered here, with the 172nd (Strasbourg) Fortress Infantry Regiment being selected for an exhaustive treatment in photographs and color paintings of its uniforms, badges, flags and band.
