On a cold, moonlit Christmas Eve in 1914, the Western Front witnessed something utterly extraordinary. Amid the horror of trench warfare, British and German soldiers—enemies, by every definition—began singing carols to each other across the frozen, barren land between their lines, known as No Man’s Land. The night air was heavy with the unease of war, yet it was softened by the familiar melodies of holiday hymns.
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Secrets of World War II episode 9: In 1944 as Hitler faced defeat he tried one last gamble of an offensive on the Western Front. The result was the ‘Battle of the Bulge’. But what the Germans did not know was the Allies were decoding their radio messages. By late 1944, the Allied commanders were confident that the Third Reich was finished. But on December 16, thousands of storm troopers suddenly appeared from the mists of the Ardennes Forest and smashed into the weakest section of the American lines. How could an attack by twenty-five German divisions take the Allies
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