The Horrors of Battle of The Bulge

Описание: The Battle of the Bulge was fought in the frozen winter of 1944–45, yet its horrors still feel unnervingly close.
In the forests and villages of the Ardennes, war became a struggle against annihilation itself. Snow swallowed roads and bodies alike. Men froze in foxholes, their weapons icing over, their wounds impossible to treat. Towns changed hands again and again, reduced to shattered stone and burning timber. Artillery thundered through the trees, shells bursting invisibly in white fog, while infantry fought at point-blank range among frozen fields and ruined farmhouses. Survival depended as much on endurance as on courage and often on pure chance.
At the center of the chaos, the Ardennes became a trap. Supply lines collapsed, units were encircled, and soldiers endured hunger, frostbite, and constant fear as the cold gnawed at them day and night. The winter itself was an enemy, as lethal as machine guns or tanks.
How did this offensive erupt into such relentless suffering? Why did soldiers continue to fight when exhaustion and the cold threatened to kill them first? And how did the Battle of the Bulge come to embody the brutal intersection of modern warfare and nature’s cruelty?