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 ...

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 ...

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Stalingrad, a ferocious and brutal siege that proved to be a major psychological and military tipping point in World War II. RFE/RL ...

This cinematic photograph shows Red Army troops in the ruins of war-torn Stalingrad in 1942. The city was flattened by German bombs at the start of their offensive, leading to a battle that was ...

October 1942: A German soldier with a Soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun in Barrikady factory rubble. (Wikimedia Commons) Eighty-three years ago today, the largest and bloodiest battle in human history ...

Feb. 2 marks 75 years since the end of the bloodiest battle in the history of mankind. It changed the course of WWII and resigned Germany to defeat. How could this happen to the Nazis who boasted one ...

NO battle of the Second World War has captured the public imagination as consistently as the clash between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia at Stalingrad. For 70 years the story of the fight for ...