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 ...

The Ardennes remains one of Europe’s most historically rich battlefields. On this expedition, we search through former ...

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 — ...

U.S. veterans laid wreaths at ceremonies Thursday across southern Belgium and Luxembourg, marking the 60th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Bulge, in which U.S. forces defeated Nazi ...

Christmas includes the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle fought by the United States. This was hell on earth. On Dec. 16, 1944, Nazi Germany launched an enormous ...

Associated Press Monday, Dec. 16, 2019 4:34 p.m. | Monday, Dec. 16, 2019 4:34 p.m. BASTOGNE, Belgium — Side by side, the Allies and former enemy Germany together marked the 75th anniversary of one of ...

The following morning a wave of Junkers dropping magnesium flares led the German Christmas Day onslaught, soon answered by American P-47 Thunderbolt fighter bombers dropping napalm ‘‘blaze bombs’’ or ...

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 ...

Acclaimed British historian Beevor (The Second World War) uses detailed archival research to tell the story of how scattered and surprised American soldiers fought a series of desperate, isolated ...

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 ...