Military historian Victor Davis Hanson affirmed that "The costliest land battle in history took place at Stalingrad" [272] and that the "fighting inside a besieged Stalingrad proved to be the most costly …

Nov 27, 2025 · Battle of Stalingrad, (July 17, 1942–February 2, 1943), successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Russia, U.S.S.R., during World War II.

Nov 9, 2009 · The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II.

Apr 11, 2025 · The Battle of Stalingrad (now Volgograd, July 1942 to February 1943) was an attempt by Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) to control the USSR's access to the Caucasus oil fields.

Stalingrad was one of the most decisive battles on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. The Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army in and around this strategically …

Sep 10, 2023 · The Battle of Stalingrad is perhaps the most famous event of the Second World War. Remembered for, among other reasons, its close-quarters urban warfare, its immense death toll, and …

Stalingrad was never meant to be the site of one of the most decisive and deadliest battles of the war, but it was there, in 1942, where the iron wills of two ruthless dictators — Adolf Hitler and Joseph …

The Battle of Stalingrad marked a turning point in World War II. This timeline identifies the key events during that war’s greatest battle.

Explore the brutal Battle of Stalingrad, where the Soviet Red Army halted Hitler’s advance in WWII’s bloodiest conflict and turned the tide on the Eastern Front.

Aug 24, 2022 · Then, late that summer, the Nazi leader attacked Stalingrad. That decision led to Germany’s first major Eastern Front defeat and became the turning point of World War II.