On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

The battle of Stalingrad has deep resonance in Russia. The five-month fighting between August 1942 and February 1943 is regarded as the bloodiest battle in history, with the death toll for soldiers ...

The battle which turned the tide of the Second World War 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 ...

MOSCOW -- Dispatches from embattled Stalingrad reported today that Soviet air reinforcements have prevented a general Nazi break-through on the Volga City front, but Russian forces were compelled to ...

Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009. Pp xxii, 896. Illus., maps,table, notes, biblio., index. $39.95. ISBN: 0700616640 The second volume of the "Stalingrad ...

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 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from SGS Battle For: Stalingrad The terrible "rat fights" (Ratenkrieg) fought out in the urban area of Stalingrad end of 1942, on a battalion scale and two days ...

MOSCOWMOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday marked the 80th anniversary of the World War II Soviet victory over Nazi German forces in the battle of Stalingrad, and invoked the long and ...