Stalingrad

Here's What You Need To Remember: The Russo-German War was no ordinary conflict fought over territory or resources. For Nazi Germany, it was a war of extermination and subjugation that would have killed the Russian people or reduced them to slavery. For the Soviet Union, it was a war of survival…

Roy Horn, best known as half of the legendary Siegfried & Roy magic and animal act in Las Vegas, has died from complications due to coronavirus. He was 75. “Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend,” Siegfried Fischbacher said…

“Nothing could give me greater pleasure than to have this opportunity of addressing myself to the Soviet people on the occasion of the victory of the United Nations over the Hitlerite aggressor”, wrote British Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden on 9 May 1945 in an article for the newspaper Britansky…

Virginia, (Sputnik) - A World War II prop fighter airplane with a colourful "Flying Tigers" paint scheme, an insignia of US volunteer pilots who fought the Japanese in the Pacific, taxies at a Virginia airfield. During its brief first life, the P-40 Kittyhawk had red stars on its wings while…

Danielle Dalledonne/Wikicommons Florian Schneider, a keyboardist and co-founder of the German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk, has died after a short battle with cancer, a representative for the band told TheWrap. He was 73. “Kraftwerk co-founder and electro pioneer Ralf Hütter has sent us the very sad news that his friend…

John Ericson, a star of Hollywood’s Golden Age who appeared in multiple MGM films and in the 1960s TV show “Honey West,” died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of pneumonia on Sunday. He was 93. Born Joseph Meibes in Dusseldorf, Germany, Ericson emigrated with his family to the United States…

Irrfan Khan, the Indian actor who increased his fame beyond Bollywood with his roles in English-language hits such as “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Life of Pi,” died Wednesday in Mumbai at age 53. “It’s saddening that this day, we have to bring forward the news of him passing away,” his PR…

Here's What You Need To Remember: The battle prevented parts of India from falling into Japanese hands and led to a pushback of Japanese forces in China and Burma, likely shortening the war. Independent India’s course was influenced by it becoming independent under a civilian government to whom power was…

Key point: These tank destroyers were powerful, but also expensive and prone to breakdown. They mattered, but not enough to win the war. World War II tanks usually had aggressive- or ferocious-sounding names, such as Hellcat, Panther, or Tiger. Yet the tendency was not universal, as with British Cruisers or the…

COMPANY OF HEROES A real-time strategy (RTS) game set in World War II, Company of Heroes brings to life -- in full cinematic detail -- the greatest war mankind has ever known. Gamers will experience the journey of the brave men of Able Company in a deep single-player campaign that…