WW2's greatest battles | 2. Stalingrad
James Holland explores the story and significance of the battle of Stalingrad, and considers how it shaped the course of the Second World War
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Show Notes
In 1942, the forces of Nazi Germany and its allies came head-to-head with those of the Soviet Union at a city on the Volga. The battle of Stalingrad was to become one of the war's grimmest, as infantry troops slogged it out in bombed-out cellars and freezing conditions. In the second episode of our series on WW2's Greatest Battles, military historian James Holland tells Ellie Cawthorne more about this pivotal clash on the Eastern Front.
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