No Silent Night: Christmas Eve At The Siege Of Bastogne, 1944

No Silent Night: Christmas Eve At The Siege Of Bastogne, 1944

Editor’s Note: This article was previously published on December 24, 2022. We’re bringing it back. * * *American service members have often spent their holidays away from loved ones — and in harm’s way — and the men who found themselves in the besieged Belgian city of Bastogne just before Christmas of 1944 were no exception.Bastogne, which sits just a few miles from the border of Luxembourg, had been under German control since May of 1940 and ha…