The Russian victory was the turning point in the Allied war against Hitler and would be followed by a series of great offensives westwards until finally in May 1945 the Red Army took Berlin.Ĭase Blu, the German offensive in the south of the Soviet Union began on 28 June 1942 seemingly successfully. ![]() The Soviet novelist and journalist Vasily Grossman, in his Tolstoyan epic Life and Fate, based on events at Stalingrad, where he was stationed, said of the battle: ‘It is like Pompeii’. The Battle of Stalingrad was fought from August 1942 right through to 2 February 1943, involving more than 2 million troops, often fighting at close quarters, with nearly 2 million killed or injured, including tens of thousands of Russian civilians. In the second of his articles marking the anniversary of Hitler’s defeat in the Russian city, Chris Bambery looks at one of the bloodiest and most important battles of the Second World War
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