Short stories have a mountain to climb. They have to work twice as hard as novels to grab their readers, persuade them to invest in characters they know won’t be around for long, and leave behind a ...

As many as one million soldiers are believed to have died in the six months of intense warfare As the Russian city once known as Stalingrad (now Volgograd) prepares to mark 70 years since the end of ...

Most Russians need no convincing that the Red Army’s grueling victory at Stalingrad was the most important event of World War II. Many Western historians concur that it was the turning point of the ...