the Soviet Air Force in World War II was the only major arm to allow women to fly in combat units … the Soviets applauded Lilya Litvyak as the White Rose of Stalingrad, not so much for her blond ...

For Women’s History Month, The National Interest is commencing a multi-part series honoring some of history’s most badass ...

The siege of Budapest, one of World War II’s longest urban battles, saw relentless street combat and left the city in ruins.

Trump’s return has left Europe’s main military pact looking less assured. Now defence is being reshaped on the continent.

to the operational triumphs of Stalingrad (1942–1943) and Operation Bagration (1944). Indeed, the Soviet military’s capacity for rapid learning was impressive: it implemented deep operations ...

Relations between the West and the Soviets quickly soured after the war's end ... In the west, D-Day and Dunkirk are the war's totemic moments, but in the east Stalingrad (pictured) was perhaps a ...

At Stalingrad the Red Army drew the Germans into an exhausting war of attrition. By the end of the battle 150,000 Germans has been killed, while 100,000 more were captured by the Soviets.

Thousands of citizens in the besieged city of Stalingrad were given phage cocktails ... of a good revolutionary and a country's patriotic defender”. When the Soviets sent Sputnik-2 into space in 1960, ...