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Warlord Games are taking pre-orders for the next book to be introduced to the Third Edition of Bolt Action, their World War ...
<p>MOSCOW - 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 ...
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Why Were the Soviets Ineffective In 1941?
Before the tide turned at Stalingrad, the Soviet Union faced one of its darkest years. In 1941, despite vast manpower and ...
More than 1.1 million Soviet soldiers were killed or wounded in the 200-day fight to liberate the city from Nazi troops during the Second World War. And each year the remains of soldiers continue ...
(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 Soviet forces ...
While Westerners tend to see the war through the lens of events such as D-Day or the Battle of Britain, it was a conflict largely won by the Soviet Union. An incredible eight out of 10 German war ...
Seventy-five years ago this month, the Soviet Red Army surrounded — and would soon destroy — a huge invading German army at Stalingrad on the Volga River. Nearly 300,000 of Germany’s best ...
Stalingrad, which was renamed Volgograd in 1961, was the bloodiest battle of the war, when the Soviet Red Army, at a cost of over 1 million casualties, broke the back of German invasion forces in ...
Why the Large and Deadly Stalingrad Class Battlecruiser Was Never Built 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 Russian 3-D blockbuster, Stalingrad, which will be released for a week in IMAX theatres, begins not in the midst of the bloody Second World War battle but in Japan in 2011, in the aftermath of ...