On February 2nd, 1943, the official surrender of the German Sixth Army marked the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, but thousands of German soldiers refused to give up. Over 11,000 dug in among the ...

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 wasn’t just a turning point in World War II - it was the deadliest battle in human history. In this video, we explore the brutal urban warfare, impossible conditions, and ...

Most Russians need no convincing that the Red Army’s grueling victory at Stalingrad was the most important event of World War II. Many Western historians concur that it was the turning point of the ...

Stalin's likeness is located near the Battle of Stalingrad Museum and is flanked by similar busts of World War II-era Soviet leaders Georgy Zhukov and Alexander Vasilevsky. Statues of the communist ...

To Germany from Moscow last week went a Christmas parcel wrapped in propaganda TNT. It was a big enough parcel to touch the hearts of 250,000 families bereaved by the debacle at Stalingrad. The card ...

This report of a trip through battle-torn Stalingrad was written by Author Konstantin Simonov, published in Moscow’s Krasnaya Zvezda and cabled to TIME by its Moscow Correspondent Walter Graebner: ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday marked the 80th anniversary of the World War II Soviet victory over Nazi German forces in the battle of Stalingrad, and invoked the long and ...