It’s a horror to see.” The strategy made German advances vastly costly, though by mid-November they had taken some 90% of Stalingrad, and had pushed the Soviets back to a thin strip of land ...

the Soviet Air Force in World War II was the only major arm to allow women to fly in combat units … the Soviets applauded ...

The Soviets discovered they needed a mobile heavy gun to dislodge the Germans during the Stalingrad counteroffensive, thus creating the SU-152 from the KV-1S chassis. Equipped with a 152 ...