Rabu, 08 Februari 2017

Romanian Nightmare at Stalingrad

Hitler’s Axis ally fought both the Russian winter and the Red Army in the Eastern Front’s turning-point battle. As morning broke on November 19, 1942, the soldiers of Romania’s 3d Army shivered in their trenches along ridges south of the Don River in southern Russia. Some winter uniforms had arrived but not nearly enough. For …

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