In December 1944, with the end of the war seemingly in sight, Hitler gambled his last reserves on a surprise blow through the snow-choked forests of the Ardennes. The offensive the Allies called the Battle of the Bulge fell hardest on the American army — and it was the American soldier, cold, often outnumbered, sometimes surrounded, who absorbed it and turned it back. This King & Country collection is that soldier's story in hand-painted 1/30 scale metal: the GIs who held the crossroads and villages of Belgium through the coldest winter in memory.

At the top stands the campaign's defining American: General Patton and his bull terrier Willie, whose Third Army wheeled ninety degrees north to relieve Bastogne. Set his GIs against the enemy who nearly broke the line — the German side of the same battle, beginning with the MG34 Machine Gun Team — and the whole Battle of the Bulge takes shape across one snowbound diorama.