Hungary's Second Army was ordered to defend a massive stretch of the Don River with outdated tanks, obsolete anti tank guns, almost no winter clothing, and far fewer men than the mission required.

How do you capture and portray the geography and infrastructure of one of the largest land battles ever that happened nearly 75 years ago? That's the problem that faced Kevin Kennedy of the Army ...

From the frozen forests of Demyansk and Kholm to the desperate escapes at Korsun, Kamenets-Podolsky, and Halbe, the German ...

Key Point: Field Marshal Erich von Manstein was possibly the greatest strategist and field commander in the German Wehrmacht. In January 1943, the once-invincible German Wehrmacht was reeling, being ...

Since July 2012, the world has watched in horror as the once-beautiful and vibrant Syrian city of Aleppo has been transformed into a perpetual battlefield. Those killed in Aleppo, as well as ...

From August 1942 to February 1943, Germany and the Axis powers fought Soviet Union forces for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia. What is now known as the Battle of ...

The Germans inched on into the environs of Stalingrad. Day by day, for four weeks, they had sent mountains of men and machines to batter the Red Army back across dusty steppes toward the Volga.

To Germany from Moscow last week went a Christmas parcel wrapped in propaganda TNT. It was a big enough parcel to touch the hearts of 250,000 families bereaved by the debacle at Stalingrad. The card ...