In December 1944, Hitler’s last gamble slammed into a “quiet” Ardennes sector, forcing green grunts and hard paratroopers to ...

On Wednesday evening, author and historian Antony Beevor described in chilling detail the Battle of the Bulge, the surprise German attack on Dec. 16, 1944, that led to the deaths of some 16,000 ...

It’s hard to imagine there's anything left to be said about the Battle of the Bulge after Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944. Though it’s ground that’s been well covered before — in print and on film — ...

The King Tiger tank was one of Germany’s most powerful armored vehicles during the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944. This ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Late on December 15 1944, the night before the Ardennes offensive began, a German company commander addressed his ...

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The war was all but over, or so they thought. The British War Cabinet was convinced it would be finished by Christmas. The American War Production Board canceled contracts for artillery shells. The ...

British historian Antony Beevor, whose award-winning work has chronicled World War II from Stalingrad to the fall of Berlin and postwar Paris, could lay claim to being the greatest historian of the ...

In December 1944 Hitler and the German army were desperate. Losing the war on two fronts. In December 1944 Hitler and the German army were desperate. Losing the war on two fronts, they launched a last ...