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, ...

The Battle of Stalingrad (August 23, 1942-February 2, 1943) was one of the most brutal and bloody battles of World War II. Germany's disastrously ill-fated attack on the Russian city is widely ...

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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

In May 1943, just months after the end of the battle for Stalingrad, a football match took place among the wreckage of the bombed-out city. Pitching the remnants of the local team, Traktor Stalingrad, ...

This video summarizes the Battle of Stalingrad in one minute, capturing the ferocious urban combat between Nazi Germany and ...

Mikhail Mordasov / Focus Pictures Volgograd is called “Russia's most Soviet city,” and justifiably so. The city became known to the entire world as Stalingrad during World War II. The entire city had ...

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 ...