MOSCOW -- Dispatches from embattled Stalingrad reported today that Soviet air reinforcements have prevented a general Nazi break-through on the Volga City front, but Russian forces were compelled to ...

IL-2 Sturmovik ruled the World War Two flight-sim roost like few games ever have. Not only did it expose sim audiences to the often-overlooked Eastern Front air war, but it proved to be a gift that ...

The Battle of Stalingrad - the turning point of the Second World War - was perhaps the bloodiest battle in the history of mankind. Even conservative estimates place the number of dead at 1m. The width ...

The Germans were in Stalingrad. The Germans had reached the Volga. > Said a German correspondent broadcasting from the Stalingrad front: “The horizon seems to heave up. Gigantic mushrooms of greenish ...

This week on the Stalingrad front, the Russians scored their biggest victory in nearly a year. In its immediate scope and consequences, the victory was “local”—the culmination of a prolonged, hitherto ...

Aimed at history fans, this bundle includes the base game with its Stalingrad career mode, two additional collector's aircraft, and three historical, hand-crafted campaigns that build upon each other ...

Editor’s Note: This essay was adapted and expanded from an article published by Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective. The most famous battle of World War II began a few days over three ...

Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009. Pp xxii, 896. Illus., maps,table, notes, biblio., index. $39.95. ISBN: 0700616640 The second volume of the "Stalingrad ...