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 ...

Stalingrad’s most celebrated hero, the accountant-turned-sniper, gave a tremendous boost to the morale of the Red Army. On Christmas Day 1942, Radio Moscow broadcast a simple message to the members of ...

The Battle of Stalingrad, with its five months of fierce fighting, began exactly 80 years ago, on Aug. 23, 1942. An estimated 750,000 Soviets died defending the city, delivering an enormous blow to ...

The Battle of Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II 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 ...

Knorring/RIA Novosti Early in the morning of November 19, 1942, thousands of Soviet cannons shelled the positions of the Nazis, and the Soviet army started a decisive attack. Zelma/RIA Novosti Several ...

On July 17, 1942, the battle of Stalingrad began. Marked by fierce close quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians by air raids, it is often regarded as one of the largest and bloodiest battles ...

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 ...

A new book has finally laid bare the full horrors of the Battle Of Stalingrad in the words of ordinary Russian soldiers, whose memories were suppressed by the Soviet authorities for 70 years. The ...