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 (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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

The Battle of Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II 80 years ago when German forces capitulated to the Red Army. A Red Army artillery unit on the front line during the 1942-1943 Battle of ...

Frozen trenches, empty ration bags, shattered airfields, and the final supply flights into Pitomnik as the encircled Sixth ...

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 USSR went on to inflict a major defeat on Germany during the Moscow counter-offensive during the winter of 1941–1942, closing the door on the Germans ending the war on the terms Hitler set out.

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 ...