December 1944, Hitler wages one more desperate bloody attack. Hitler struck back with a brutal counterattack and the Battle of the Bulge was the single biggest and bloodiest battle U.S. soldiers have ever fought. Almost 80,000 Americans were killed, injured, or captured in an infernal test of courage and endurance that ultimately ended with a hard-won victory for the Allies. Told through the eyes of the U.S. soldiers and combat officers in the field.

Title from container. Originally broadcast on television as an episode of "American experience" in 2002.

1. Introduction -- 2. Hitler's new army -- 3. The ghost front -- 4. All airborne -- 5. "Nuts" -- 6. Hunker down -- 7. The ragmen -- 8. Apocalyptic landscape.