With good reason, many military historians consider Georgy Zhukov to have been the greatest general of World War II. No other military leader played so central a role in so many battles that ...

Among the Allied generals of the second World War Georgy Zhukov is among the least known, far less familiar a figure than Eisenhower or Montgomery. Yet it could be argued that no other general made a ...

The town of Berane unveiled a bust of the Soviet Red Army general Georgy Zhukov, which was donated by Russia, describing it as a symbol of “freedom and anti-fascism”. This post is also available in ...

In December 1942, Field Marshal Zhukov’s picture appeared on the cover of Time magazine. He was described as “Stalin’s favourite”. It was dangerous as well as flattering to be so close to the Supreme ...

The Germans are losing the war in Russia, which means that they are losing World War II. On the frozen plains of Rzhev before Moscow, on the Don and in the Volga corridor at Stalingrad, in the snows ...

This article originally appeared in the Aug. 20, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov—by Geoffrey Roberts (Random House, $30). The most formidable Allied ...

Beginning in 1936, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin set about deliberately murdering 700,000 people in the Great Purge, an act of mass killing that “constituted a form of rule” unto itself, as Stalin ...

MARSHAL Georgy Zhukov is contemporary Russia’s national hero, seen as the man who defeated Hitler and saved Russia and Europe from the Nazis. His reputation is that of a Russian patriot and an ...

Joseph Stalin shuffled his High Command last week. By doing so, he admitted that Russia had suffered grim defeat. By the way he did it, he served notice that his country was by no means finished.

It is a frivolous, almost crass question arising from the greatest carnage endured and prosecuted by mankind: who was the most important single figure in the Second World War? It is an inquiry to ...