Fighting in Alleys: The Battle Of Stalingrad, 1942-1943
Russian soldiers race through rubble late in the Battle of Stalingrad, 1943. It was meant to be Germany's crippling blow against the USSR -- Russia still an ally, at that point, with America and Britain against the Axis powers -- and a personal humiliation for Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, the city's namesake. Instead, it turned into the bloodiest battle in human history -- between the Soviets and the Germans, anywhere from 1.5 to 2 million casualites -- and marked the beginning of the end for Hitler's war machine.
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