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 ...

IL-2 Sturmovik ruled the World War Two flight-sim roost like few games ever have. Not only did it expose sim audiences to the often-overlooked Eastern Front air war, but it proved to be a gift that ...

July 17, 1942, 70 years ago today, saw the beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad – one of the epic and decisive battles in the Great Patriotic War. It would end on February 2, 1943, with capitulation ...

The Battle of Stalingrad - the turning point of the Second World War - was perhaps the bloodiest battle in the history of mankind. Even conservative estimates place the number of dead at 1m. The width ...

MOSCOW, Nov. 27, 1942 (UP) -- The Red army, driving steadily ahead on the jagged Stalingrad front on Thursday, captured a dozen scattered villages and 12,000 prisoners, while in the mop up of the ...

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 greenish ...

Editor’s Note: This essay was adapted and expanded from an article published by Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective. The most famous battle of World War II began a few days over three ...

This week on the Stalingrad front, the Russians scored their biggest victory in nearly a year. In its immediate scope and consequences, the victory was “local”—the culmination of a prolonged, hitherto ...