Archive film, computer-generated imagery and innovative reconstructions tell the Red Army's story of their bloody def...

From the very first days of the war the USSR capitol had been preparing its defense. Institutions and plants, embass...

The takeover of Leningrad was of strategic importance for the German Command. On the 8th of September 1941 the German...

On the 28th of June 1943 German troops launched Case Blue. They dashed towards Voronezh, Stalingrad, and Rostov-on-Do...

It was April 1943. The frontline froze, but the Soviet Command was already designing plans for the Summer, paying spe...

Conditions of Army Group Center in Byelorussia seemed to be stable. Soviet attempts to go on the offensive near Viteb...

Troops from five fronts began a coordinated offensive from Smolensk to the Sea of Azov on a broad new front 1400 km i...

On the 31st of January 1945 the tankers of the 1st Byelorussian Front reached the Oder river near Kostrin and Frankfu...

Stalin’s USSR was a nation obsessed with secrecy and highly experienced in the skills of espionage. But despite estab...

The Soviet navy fought many different types of war, from coastal raids in the Black Sea, to convoy escorts in the Arc...

The Soviet Air Force was nearly wiped out in the first days of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. But thanks to...

In January 1945, across the snow-covered plains of Poland, the Red Army launched an overwhelming assault against the ...

In August 1945 the Red Army launched an overwhelming assault against Japanese-occupied Manchuria. It came on the same...

The German conquests of 1941 left Hitler’s troops perilously close to the Soviet capital, Moscow. Around Rzhev terrib...

As September ended, the Germans found the Dnieper line impossible to hold as the Soviet bridgeheads grew and importan...

Hitler’s 1941 invasion of the USSR ran into some its fiercest resistance at the Black Sea ports of Odessa and Sevasto...

In 1942, Hitler launched his great summer offensive against the Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus. If he could seize ...

In 1941 German armed forces overran vast swathes of Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine. But it was not long before the l...