Author: ANON.
Title: The Fort of Vaux
Description: St. Laurent FR: Editions & Impressions Combier, 1986. Paperback. Illustrated by Color plates. Top fore corner bumped, light wear & scuffing ; A bright, solid book. Colour photos throughout, map inside back cover. Text in English. This is a booklet produced for the travel industry with the interest in military battlefields. ; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 16 pages; "Fort Vaux, located in Vaux-Devant-Damloup, Meuse, France, became the second Fort to fall in the Battle of Verdun. The first fort to fall had been Fort Douaumont which was virtually undefended and had been captured by a small German raiding party in February 1916 . Fort de Vaux , on the other hand , was fully garrisoned when it was attacked on June 2 by German assault troops. The fort had been modernized before 1914 with additional reinforced concrete top protection, like at Fort Douaumont, and thus did resist a German heavy artillery preparation which had included shelling by 16 inch howitzers. The superstructure of the fort had been heavily damaged but the deep interior corridors and stations remained intact and can still be seen in their original condition today." Wikipedia. Very Good .

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