The History Channel must know the desires of its vast global audience pretty well. If someone goes to that cable and satellite TV channel, it is almost impossible to avoid documentaries on World War ...

MOSCOW – The southern Russian city where the Red Army decisively turned back Nazi forces in a key World War II battle will once again be known as Stalingrad, at least on the days commemorating the ...

A Red Army artillery unit on the front line during the 1942-1943 Battle of Stalingrad, which changed the course of World War II AFP The Battle of Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II 80 ...

The Battle of Stalingrad, which lasted six months between August 1942 and February 1943, is regarded not only as the beginning of the end of the Nazi war machine, but one of the bloodiest conflicts in ...

Lawmakers in the Russian city of Volgograd on Thursday voted to revive its wartime name of Stalingrad for ceremonial purposes six days a year, just ahead the 70th anniversary of Red Army's defeat of ...

FOR more than 300 years, the Russian city of Volgograd was known as Tsaritsyn. It was dubbed Stalingrad in honour of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin for a mere 26 years, but then his successor Nikita ...

It’s sometimes easy to forget one particular, elemental truth: We live in a physical world. In a digital age — when so so much of what we see, hear and act upon is comprised wholly of incorporeal ones ...

The Russian city where the Red Army decisively defeated German forces in the second World War will once again be known as Stalingrad, on the days commemorating the victory. The city was renamed ...

The Battle of Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II 80 years ago when German forces capitulated to the Red Army, remains a powerful symbol of patriotism in Russia as it presses its war in ...