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, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to attend a laying ceremony at the monument to Motherland during ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad in the southern Russian ...

MOSCOW – The Soviet soldiers used their own bodies as shields, covering women and children escaping on ferry boats from a Nazi bombardment that killed 40,000 civilians in a single day. It was the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On November 19, 1942, the Soviet Red Army began a counteroffensive attack to move the Germans out of Stalingrad in a major turning point of World War ...

Several movies have been made about the crucial 1942 World War II battle of Stalingrad, including the international coproduction “Enemy at the Gates” (2001) and the German “Stalingrad” (1993). This is ...

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.

MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet soldiers used their own bodies as shields, covering women and children escaping on ferry boats from a Nazi bombardment that killed 40,000 civilians in a single day. It was the ...

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 ...

Battle of Stalingrad, (July 17, 1942–February 2, 1943), successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Russia, U.S.S.R., during World War II. Russians consider it to be one of ...