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, ...

With the onset of Spring 1942, the war in the east was ready to begin again but the problem of supplies particularly of oil was forever a worry for the German High Command and so they planned for an ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this documentary, we cover the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the most decisive engagements of World War II. Fought between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from 1942 to 1943, the battle marked a ...

Many German critics shat all over this $80 million epic when it opened at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year. The chief complaint about this lavish depiction of the German invasion of Russia ...

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, ...

The Russian city of Volgograd could soon be answering to its old and - to many people - much more familiar name of Stalingrad. The regional authorities in the city, site of the 1942-3 battle, are keen ...

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 ...