In April 1945, Marshal Georgy Zhukov expected a swift breakthrough on the road to Berlin. Instead, his opening assault ran ...

Marshal Zhukov, decorated Soviet commander, risked Stalin's wrath for his Coca-Cola addiction. The solution? A clear version ...

Initially dismissed by German soldiers as a faceless Stalin puppet, Georgy Zhukov quickly became feared and respected as a brilliant and ruthless commander. His leadership during the Battle of Moscow ...

Nikolai Vatutin’s salient was a long, narrow thrust into prewar Poland. To the Germans it looked like a dagger that could strike at Rumania, at Poland, at the last remaining rail line feeding the ...

Reading the memoirs of Belarusian Nikolai Kutovsky about the 1945 Moscow Victory Parade is like being transported back 80 years and finding yourself on Red Square. “I was riding in the third row from ...