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For nearly 900 days the city withstood bombardment and starvation
During the early days Operation Barbarossa, Army Group Centre’s rapid advance surrounded hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers in the Białystok-Minsk area. What ensued was a catastrophic defeat for the Soviet defenders
Formerly the Prussian stronghold of Königsberg, since 1945 this region has been a Soviet, then Russian, foothold in Eastern Europe
How Stalin shaped the Soviet collective memory
With casualties mounting and citizens starving, what effect would Stalin striking another deal with Hitler have had?
In 1942, the German war machine was at the height of its power. France, the ‘hereditary enemy’, was defeated and occupied. In the Soviet Union, Army Group South was marching inexorably toward the Cauc
In the event of a Nazi invasion, Britain would have deployed a network of deadly defences to impede the enemy at every turn
