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Hindenburg Line |
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Hindenburg LineGerman western line of World War I fortifications running from Arras, through Cambrai and St Quentin, to Soissons, built 1916-17. Part of the line was taken by the British in the third battle of Arras, but it generally resisted attack until the British offensive of summer 1918.
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| Decades after, there were more deaths--at the Hindenburg Line, the Battle of the Bulge, Leyte, Bien Hoa--place names of history, grim in recollection. One cannot come to terms with the failed Allied offensives of 1917 without a detailed examination of the German withdrawal to the so-called Hindenburg Line, which deprived potentially powerful British and French blows of their punch. The Hindenburg Line here, as elsewhere, was very formidable. |
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