In the four-month battle between Germany and the Soviet Red Army for Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the summer and winter of 1942-43, an estimated 1 million people died on both sides. It was a titanic, ...

This is the sixth in a series about a journey, by train and bicycle, across Russia to Crimea shortly before the war began. My night train to Volgograd, which was Stalingrad in its hours of desperation ...

As the Germans advanced towards Stalingrad in the Summer of 1942, the war came to the locals of the city and evacuation was slow to the speed of the Wehrmacht’s advancement. Actors Who Permanently ...