The city of Stalingrad was in ruins as the Russian winter of 1942-43 took hold. For nearly three months it had been the battleground in which the Red Army had dug in to prevent the advance of the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Archive film shows the bitter fighting between Nazi German and Soviet troops at Stalingrad. It was the bloodiest battle of World War Two, involving about 2.2 million troops. Fighting raged from August ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archive film shows the bitter fighting between Nazi German and Soviet troops at Stalingrad. It was the bloodiest battle of World War Two, involving about 2.2 million troops. Fighting raged from August ...