When German bombers reduced Stalingrad to rubble in 1942, they unknowingly created the perfect battlefield for snipers. Soviet marksmen like Vasily Zaitsev and Lyudmila Pavlichenko turned shattered ...
The survival of the Demyansk Pocket convinced Hitler that encircled armies could always be supplied by air. That belief would prove fatal. This video shows how Demyansk became the template for ...
In June 1941, Nazi troops invaded the USSR. It's an “ideological and racial war”, says Adolf Hitler. Marshal Zhukov stopped the Germans at the gates of Moscow. But in July 1942, the Führer decided to ...