Under its cover Russian sappers swept forward to “delouse” German minefields. Over the frozen ... of his soldiers had been slain. A column that the Russians launched along the Stalingrad ...

weather) through the Stalingrad area just after the mop-up there. The item about Russian children using the stiffly frozen body of a German soldier as a sled makes a one-sentence summary of the ...

the Soviet Red Army surrounded — and would soon destroy — a huge invading German army at Stalingrad on the Volga River. Nearly 300,000 of Germany’s best soldiers would never return home.