THE ROAD TO STALINGRAD: Stalin’s War with Germany, by John Erickson. 594 pages, illustrated. Yale paperback THE ROAD TO BERLIN: Continuing the History of Stalin’s War with Germany, by John Erickson.

On the eve of the visit to Volgograd of Vladimir Putin, the aggressor country's president, the 'Volgograd' road signs at all main entrances to the city were temporarily replaced with 'Stalingrad' ...

With an unfortunately cold Mardi Gras, and more than a bit of unpleasantness rearing its head in the Ukraine, it's only natural one's thoughts would turn toward Stalingrad. Plus, the movie's in town.

During the 1942-43 battle of Stalingrad, these fields west of the city were covered in snow, and it was here that the noose closed on the invading German Sixth Army. Now at Rossoschka, twenty miles ...