Hommes et ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot - Tome 1

The best specialists in French fortification have associated their encyclopaedic knowledge and their documentation, to compose the most extraordinary piece of work that has never been published before on the Maginot line. This first volume (there will be four volumes on the fortress) covers the North-East works creations and buildings. As far as troops are concerned, each one of the 41 fortress infantry regiments (RIF) which has existed between 1935 and 1940 is explained in details with its insignia and its distinctive marks. The 172nd Strasbourg RIF is a typical example for the study of those crack troops characteristics (flag, sappers, music and fanfare, pennants, etc.). This is done thanks to a stunning documentation of that period (photos and watercolours) which has been collected by Pierre Bréteigner, a senior from the lower Rhine regiment.