...the "Battle of the Bulge" are well known and have been often described. The German offensive failed for a variety of reasons, perhaps the most important of which was that the bulk of the elite SS panzer forces never really got into the fight. As General Ridgway wrote...

...craftsmen, but in the 13th and 14th centuries, many Roma in Romania and in the Balkans were enslaved for a variety of reasons, perhaps the most important of which was the labor shortage caused by the demand for men to fight in the Crusades. By the late 1 5th century, as...