As the Germans advanced towards Stalingrad in the Summer of 1942, the war came to the locals of the city and evacuation was slow to the speed of the Wehrmacht’s advancement.

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 ...

By the time his tank crested a hill overlooking Stalingrad in August 1942, he led a 250-man tank company. He wasn’t quite 20 years old. The next five months were a turning point, for Germany and ...

Joel Hayward's Stopped at Stalingrad extends this much further ... Soviet oil production by launching large-scale bomber raids against Baku in the summer of 1942, when the German advance brought the ...