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image: Ruined medieval ramparts running left to right showing seven round towers overlooking a central road, with a
portion of stone walling to the right.
The castle, the building of which was begun in 1223 and the largest of its type in Europe, was blown up by the German
army under the command of General Ludendorff in 1917 "as an example to superior values. Rammed with 28 tons of explosives at his orders,
the colossus raised by Enguerrand III, in the age of the greatest builders since Greece and Rome was dynamited to the ground". ['A Distant
Mirror', Barbara Tuchman, Macmillan London, 1979] | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Bomb Damage Architecture trench / defences | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Augis, Marcel | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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