As described in the book No Silent Night: The Christmas Battle for Bastogne ... “the battered bastards of Bastogne,” spent Christmas breaking the advance of the German army in one of the ...

With the Fifth Panzer Army fighting its way towards the River Meuse the cross roads town of Bastogne vital for the ... reached Bastogne just before the German ring around the town closed Wearing ...

In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter, the ...

The First Battle of the Marne ... the exhaustion of many of the German forces: some had marched more than 240km (150 miles), fighting frequently. The German advance was also hampered by demolished ...

A tour led by an 88-year-old guide in Bastogne ... German offensive on the Western Front. But this month Mr. Mignon, 88, said he felt uncomfortable as he anticipated his Saturday morning Battle ...