Feb. 2 marked the 70th anniversary of the end of one of World War II's most decisive and utterly destructive battles, the five months of slaughter in the Russian city then called Stalingrad. In 2012, ...
In the four-month battle between Germany and the Soviet Red Army for Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the summer and winter of 1942-43, an estimated 1 million people died on both sides. It was a titanic, ...
On July 17, 1942, the battle of Stalingrad began. Marked by fierce close quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians by air raids, it is often regarded as one of the largest and bloodiest battles ...
The Battle of Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II 80 years ago when German forces capitulated to the Red Army. A Red Army artillery unit on the front line during the 1942-1943 Battle of ...
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. xxiii, 323. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $39.95. ISBN:0-7006-0876-1 One of the things we have long needed in terms of the history of the German ...
Evocative pictures bring to life the true brutality of the street-to-street warfare being bravely fought by both sides in a battle that marked the beginning of the end of the Nazi menace A CACHE of ...
The USSR went on to inflict a major defeat on Germany during the Moscow counter-offensive during the winter of 1941–1942, closing the door on the Germans ending the war on the terms Hitler set out.
A Red Army artillery unit on the front line during the 1942-1943 Battle of Stalingrad, which changed the course of World War II AFP The Battle of Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II 80 ...