The Battle of Stalingrad didn’t end with surrender, it began a new kind of nightmare. For the German Sixth Army, captivity ...

As the year 1943 progressed, a series of attacks centred around Stalingrad in southern Russia, resulted in some of the most ...

The Germans were in Stalingrad. The Germans had reached the Volga. > Said a German correspondent broadcasting from the Stalingrad front: “The horizon seems to heave up. Gigantic mushrooms of ...

German General Friedrich Paulus’s 6th Army was trapped. But Hitler refused to let the 300,000 exhausted soldiers retreat. “They were caught there in absolute hell, in the cold, completely ...

Red Army troops storm a building, and German prisoners, below, during the Battle of ... He also points out that more than 50,000 Soviet citizens fought on the German side at Stalingrad alone.

THE German Army has several tasks which it must fulfill simultaneously. It must resist the Anglo-American invasion. It must oppose the Russians in the east. It must keep the satellite states in line ...

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 ...

Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle of World War Two, when the Soviet Red Army, at a cost of over 1 million casualties, broke the back of German invasion forces in 1942-3.

But Stalingrad, Mr. MacGregor maintains, “broke the cycle of continual German victories, thus ensuring that it was now a case of when and not if the Allies would eventually defeat the Nazis.” ...