{"id":45436,"date":"2018-11-13T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45436"},"modified":"2018-10-23T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T13:55:00","slug":"the-maginot-line-actually-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/11\/13\/the-maginot-line-actually-a-good-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maginot Line: Actually a Good Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-XVHYg6gvWU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Historigraph<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 13 Oct 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoyed this video and want to see more made, consider supporting my efforts on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/historigraph\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/historigraph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My old video on the invasion of France in 1940, which is useful for background info to this video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-4-l0MMkVXQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-4-l0&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out my Norway 1940 series: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLk2daSTx1RZslpBmoD-j0w4T1nVTDKV3Z\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/historigraph\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/historigraph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sources: <\/p>\n<p>James Holland, <em>The War in the West \u2013 A New History Vol. 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941<\/em> (kindle edition)<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Clark, <em>Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality and Hitler&#8217;s Lightning War &#8211; France, 1940<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Alistair Horne, <em>To Lose a Battle: France 1940<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Charles River Editors, <em>The Maginot Line: The History of the Fortifications that failed to protect France from Nazi Germany during World War II<\/em>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historigraph Published on 13 Oct 2018 If you enjoyed this video and want to see more made, consider supporting my efforts on Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/historigraph My old video on the invasion of France in 1940, which is useful for background info to this video: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-4-l0&#8230; Check out my Norway 1940 series: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list&#8230; \u25ba Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/historigraph Sources: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1117,1118,7,5,246,230],"tags":[523,1095],"class_list":["post-45436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-france","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-ww1","category-ww2","tag-belgium","tag-fortification"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bOQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45437,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45436\/revisions\/45437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}