| The first mission of the Stalingrad set has you crossing the Volga towards the ruined city while being strafed by Stuka dive bombers. |
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| He then used his expertise to destroy the German Army at Stalingrad which lead to Field Marshall von Paulus surrendering his forces. |
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| In the battle of Stalingrad one million Soviet soldiers were to meet their end. |
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| Nearly 60 years after the defeat at Stalingrad killed 110,000 Germans, the country's citizens remain profoundly mistrustful of militarism. |
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| Stalingrad was a large industrial city at the apex of this line and its speedy capture was essential for the success of the whole German campaign. |
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| The Germans were preparing to advance across Russia towards Stalingrad and were already bunkered down on the Normandy coast, staring across at England. |
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| Soldiers numbering in the hundreds of thousands fell in and around Stalingrad and had to be buried in makeshift graves. |
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| The novel begins with a description of the fighting at Stalingrad, still in the martial, residually Soviet tone of Grossman's newspaper days. |
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| If martians attack, we can all pull together the way we did at Dunkirk and El Alamein and Stalingrad. |
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| On one side of the fence, to put it metonymically, we had Antony Beevor's Stalingrad. |
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| This city, this pearl of the Adriatic, would be known as the Little Stalingrad of the Abruzzo. |
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| It was his last ever game – after the final he was posted to Stalingrad and, like almost 2,000,000 others on both sides, never returned home. |
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| It would be unfunny, for different reasons, if set at Verdun or Gettysburg or Stalingrad. |
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| After Stalingrad, Soviet forces remained on the offensive for the remainder of the war, despite some temporary setbacks. |
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| After a successful German advance in summer 1942, the battle for the city of Stalingrad in late 1942 proved a turning point. |
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| Soviet forces halted the German advance at Stalingrad on the Volga River and in the Caucasus. |
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| Unlike the Stalingrad counteroffensive, the corps, divisions, regiments and battalions in the main sectors were attacking in two and, sometimes, in three echelons. |
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| Unlike the defense of Stalingrad, the fronts had a two-echelon operational disposition of forces where tank armies for the first time formed the second echelon. |
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| In three days of fighting as murderous as any of the legionnaires had seen at Stalingrad, the last trenches were overrun. |
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| All I knew about Russia was the 900 days of Leningrad and Stalingrad, and the fall of Berlin. |
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| An exhausting service then followed for him during the reconstruction of Stalingrad. |
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| As well as the fascinating impressions left by nature, historic sites also await us, where events of global significance such as the Battle of Stalingrad took place. |
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| By then, Soviet forces were on the offensive and had won a major victory at the Battle of Stalingrad. |
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| After the staggering Battle of Stalingrad in 1943, the German offensive in the Soviet Union turned into a continual fallback. |
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| Vasily, a middle-aged doctor, remembers hearing how, to stay warm and dry, Red Army soldiers slept under and on top of each other at the battle of Stalingrad. |
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| Joseph Stalin had bowed out, citing the need for his presence in the Soviet Union to attend to the Stalingrad crisis. |
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| The reorganisation of the Chausée flamande, the Carrefour Léonard, the avenue de Stalingrad, of the Place Rouppe and the Drève de Lorraine are just a few references of Group Verhaeren in the Brussels region. |
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| Together the monument and the plaque deliver the important message that the great battles of the Second World War were not just in Normandy and Stalingrad. |
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| As I see it, however, the atmosphere is more reminiscent of winter, such as that experienced by the soldiers fighting at Stalingrad during the Second World War. |
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| The defeats at the Battle of Stalingrad and Battle of Kursk ensured the gradual decline of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. |
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| Heavy losses affected both sides in the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the most costly battles in history. |
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| After Stalingrad, the initiative had passed from Germany but had not yet been seized by the Soviets. |
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| In the pre-war years the production of yperite was prepared at 6 plants in Moscow, Chapaevsk, Stalingrad, Dzerzhinsk, Berezniki and Stalinogorsk. |
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| His Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945 are filled with vivid details. |
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| The great Russian writer Vasily Grossman served his country through the siege of Stalingrad and all the way to Berlin. |
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| Over the next year the tide was turned and the Germans started to suffer a series of defeats, for example in the siege of Stalingrad and at Kursk. |
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| The city was originally known as Tsaritsyn before being renamed Stalingrad in 1925 in honour of Stalin's victory there during the Russian Civil War. |
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| However, the Germans in a much less ambitious summer offensive launched in June were deep into southern Soviet territory, pushing toward Stalingrad. |
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| The decision to attack the Soviet Union and the decisive defeat at Stalingrad led to the retreat of the German armies and the eventual loss of the war. |
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| In the meantime, his forces dug in and waited for the eventual attack by the British Commonwealth forces or the defeat of the Soviet Army at Stalingrad. |
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| The relationship developed through ordinary people in Coventry who wanted to show their support for the Soviet Red Army during the Battle of Stalingrad. |
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| The Soviets decided to make their stand at Stalingrad on the Volga. |
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