Northerner reacts to The world at war #3

Forlorn monsters today.

In May 1940,
these forts of the Maginot line

were France's first-line defence
against the Germans.

Half a million French soldiers
lurked beneath these man-made hills.

These were the most extensive,

the most elaborate forts
ever constructed.

Here the guns would halt the Hun -

provided the Hun came this way.