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, ...

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 ...

Stalingrad: Remembering the bloodiest battle of World War II Historic battle of Stalingrad fought between July 17, 1942 and February 2, 1943 heralded total defeat of Nazi troops and full victory over ...

“Bankers, conservative columnists, and other respectable people” were happy to see a million Russians die to keep open an Eastern front, The Nation noted, but became a bit ruffled when the Soviets ...

Philadelphia & Newbury: Casemate/Havertown PA and Newbury, Berkshire, 2011. Pp. ix, 366. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $32.95. ISBN: 1612000029 With Sacrifice ...

Most Western authors writing about contemporary Russian politics typically tend to present a story with an obvious ideological bias: Pro-Washington and anti-Kremlin, usually emphasizing how President ...

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 ...

The Battle of Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II 80 years ago when German forces capitulated to the Red Army, remains a powerful symbol of patriotism in Russia as it presses its war in ...