Jānis Grandāns and his teenage son Kārlis traveled 1,600 kilometers (994 miles) from the Baltic to the Black Sea to support a ...
In November 1942, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus, encircling the German 6th Army at Stalingrad and sealing its fate.
On the Russian steppe in the spring of 1942, a T-34 pushed forward through the morning mist, less than a thousand yards from the German lines. For months, these thirty-ton machines seemed untouchable.