On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

MOSCOW – The southern Russian city where the Red Army decisively turned back Nazi forces in a key World War II battle will once again be known as Stalingrad, at least on the days commemorating the ...

Eyewitness accounts from soldiers trapped in the encircled city of Stalingrad reveal the unimaginable horrors of starvation, ...

Feb. 2 marked the 70th anniversary of the end of one of World War II’s most decisive and utterly destructive battles, the five-months of slaughter in the Russian city then called Stalingrad. In 2012, ...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to attend a laying ceremony at the monument to Motherland during ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad in the southern Russian ...

Scenes like those of the Thirteenth Guards Division and Helmut Walz were repeated a thousand times over during the six months of the battle for Stalingrad. I fought in high intensity combat during my ...

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 ...

Manchester Metropolitan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. In 1944, Stalingrad (as Volgograd was called until 1961) and the British city of Coventry became the first Anglo ...