Giant's Shadow
is really Le Cateau-Cambrésis and the Selle valley, Hauts-de-France
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
In the game
A map based on the Battle of the Selle in October 1918, British troops attacking German lines under a crashed airship.
The real place
British forces fought across the Selle river around Le Cateau during the final Allied advance of 1918. The crashed airship is made up.
Visiting
Visit the Musée Matisse in the town, then walk the Selle valley edge where the 1918 crossings took place.