When the German Sixth Army officially surrendered at Stalingrad on February 2, 1943, the battle was declared over, but for ...

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 ...

For German soldiers, Vasily Chuikov became inseparable from the nightmare of Stalingrad. His insistence on fighting at ...

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 ...

Since July 2012, the world has watched in horror as the once-beautiful and vibrant Syrian city of Aleppo has been transformed into a perpetual battlefield. Those killed in Aleppo, as well as ...

It’s sometimes easy to forget one particular, elemental truth: We live in a physical world. In a digital age — when so so much of what we see, hear and act upon is comprised wholly of incorporeal ones ...

Stalin is seen here receiving an honorary Sword of Stalingrad from British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in November 1943 The Russian city once known as Stalingrad is to regain its old name during ...

Photographs of Stalingrad lying in ruins are perhaps well-known to many. But do you know what the famous city looked like before enemy troops entered it? Even those who are not particularly ...

As many as one million soldiers are believed to have died in the six months of intense warfare As the Russian city once known as Stalingrad (now Volgograd) prepares to mark 70 years since the end of ...

Russia's Ministry of Defence has published online a cache of declassified documents detailing atrocities carried out by Nazi soldiers and officers during World War Two. The release on Friday on 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 ...

Evocative pictures bring to life the true brutality of the street-to-street warfare being bravely fought by both sides in a battle that marked the beginning of the end of the Nazi menace A CACHE of ...