A film by Peter Batty to mark the 25th anniversary of the start of the last German offensive of the Second World War.
It was the biggest single pitched battle of the Western Front - over a million troops took part. It was Hitler's most desperate gamble. It was the climax of the Allied invasion of Western Europe - the battle where the German fighting spirit was finally broken. It produced epic struggles, as at Bastogne and St Vith. But it was a time too of deep national humiliation for it contained the biggest mass surrender of American arms of the European war.

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