The Soviet Jewish writer Vasily Grossman’s novel “Life and Fate,” completed in 1960, is an epic story centered on the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany that marked the turning ...

Enemy at the Gates – first released 25 years ago this week – is based on a legendary duel amid the rubble and wreckage of the ...

Eighty years ago, the Battle of Stalingrad was entering its final months. The Wehrmacht's Sixth Army with some 300,000 troops, commanded by Gen. Frederich Von Paulus, was about to be eviscerated by a ...

During World War II, Allied ships sailed through the Arctic to deliver vital supplies to the Soviet Union. Facing German U-boats, bombers, and brutal polar storms, British and American sailors kept a ...

MOSCOWMOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday marked the 80th anniversary of the World War II Soviet victory over Nazi German forces in the battle of Stalingrad, and invoked the long and ...

Key point: Despite Moscow’s dreams, the cost of World War II and the recovery were too much for a new class of ships. The Soviet navy was not in great shape at the onset of the German invasion on June ...

We've seen so many war movies in America that part of us thinks that war makes sense, particularly World War II. But the Russians know things that we don't know. They know that even winning a war can ...

Road signs reading Stalingrad may have been temporarily erected on the outskirts of Volgograd, but local residents have overwhelmingly rejected the prospect of the Soviet-era name becoming a permanent ...