Day two in the Vosges Mountains of eastern France ... This was an active battlefield in the early campaign to liberate Bruyeres. Foxholes dug by both American and German forces still remain ...

In the frostbitten Vosges Mountains of northeastern France, near the German border, 1945 began with a New Year’s Day offensive. Here, amidst the forgotten echoes of the famous Battle of the ...

The apparently pristine Gerardmer lake in the Vosges mountains of eastern France conceals a bleak legacy of 20th-century conflict -- dozens of tonnes of unexploded ordnance from the two world wars.