The crops should be full in Belgium this year
The soil should be fertile, but the price has been clear
The wheat should be red on the hills of Bastogne
For its roots have been drenched by the blood of our own

Battered and reeling we stand in their way
It's here we are, and here we will stay
Embittered,wrathful, we watch our pals fall
God, where's the end, the end of it all?

Confident and powerful, they strike at our lines
But we beat them back, fighting for time
Berserk with fury, they are hitting us now
Flesh against steel - we'll hold - but how?

For each day that we stay, more mothers must grieve
For each hill that we hold more men must we leave
Yes, honor the men who will some day come home
But pray for the men 'neath the hills of Bastogne

- The Hills of Bastogne by Bernard J McKearney

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Bastogne-A Nightmare before Christmas - a map for Battlefield1942 by Dan Taylor. 
To install, extract the Bastogne-ANightmareb4Xmas.rfa into your mapfolder (something like ...Battlefield1942/Mods/bf1942/archive/bf1942/levels/)

WARNING: You must have the original Bastogne.rfa installed to play. Battlefield1942 won't crash but the map will look ugly. If you don't have it already (its in this Xmas Edition zip, too!), get it here:
http://www.bf1942files.com/file.info?ID=13888
or do a search for dantaylors-bastogne.zip 

Theres also a serverversion available, use the one from the Xmas Edition as it fixes a vital bug.

Featuring "La vie en Rose" by Edith Piaf

Special thanks to Ghoul, the guys at battleforeurope.com, Ben from Forgotten Battles (the reason this map was created), Broken Arrow for pointing me to the Bastogne lyrics and bf-42.org aka fragthe.net for being the best bf community EVAR :-)

Logo by Bobby Shaftoe.

Be sure to check out Tools awesome movies based on Bastogne:
The realdeal machinima movie:
http://www.bf1942files.com/file.info?ID=14224

The preview movie, shot in the making of the map:
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/5686
http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/planetbattlefield/bastogne_preview_movie.zip

In loving memories of Edith Piaf (1915-1963). You will not be forgotten, sparrow.
Released December 2003.

If you find bugs or want to tell me your opinion about the maps, email me at maik@pegasus.de