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The Battle of Stalingrad wasn’t just a turning point in World War II - it was the deadliest battle in human history. In this ...
THE ROAD TO STALINGRAD: Stalin’s War with Germany, by John Erickson. 594 pages, illustrated. Yale paperback THE ROAD TO BERLIN: Continuing the History of Stalin’s War with Germany, by John ...
During the U.S.-led war in Iraq from 2003–11, one study reported that 405,000 Iraqis were killed directly and indirectly as a result of the war, and from 2001–15, an additional 91,991 people ...
During Putin’s visit to Stalingrad, I was rereading the classic Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer, a CBS radio correspondent who had been based in Berlin in the 1930s.
Goebbels put the question on Feb. 18, 1943 to an audience of Nazi faithful in Berlin's Sportpalast hall after the German army's defeat at Stalingrad, widely seen as the turning point of the war.
That was the real story of the war; it does not resemble the war shown in new state propaganda films like Panfilov’s “28 Men.” Rodina Mat’ Zovyot (The Motherland Calls), a 279-foot statue, crowns ...