When German bombers reduced Stalingrad to rubble in 1942, they unknowingly created the perfect battlefield for snipers. Soviet marksmen like Vasily Zaitsev and Lyudmila Pavlichenko turned shattered ...

In just one minute, Google Earth takes us across the turning point of World War II—the Battle of Stalingrad. Beginning with the German Sixth Army’s drive through the steppe, the map zooms into the ...

MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet soldiers used their own bodies as shields, covering women and children escaping on ferry boats from a Nazi bombardment that killed 40,000 civilians in a single day. It was the ...

Stalingrad (Russian: Сталинград) is a 1990 two-part war film written and directed by Yuri Ozerov, and produced by Quincy Jones and Clarence Avant. Revolving around the eponymous Battle of Stalingrad ...

April 30 (Reuters) - Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday it was up to residents of Volgograd to decide whether the city should revert to the name of Stalingrad, as it was called when ...