On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

Told through firsthand survivor accounts, this documentary follows the final weeks of the Battle of Stalingrad from the ...

The survival of the Demyansk Pocket convinced Hitler that encircled armies could always be supplied by air. That belief would ...

This West German World War 2 thriller was nominated for six Oscars.

American soldiers dug foxholes into the ridgeline at Djebel Chambi. They had only arrived in North Africa a few weeks ago and faced light resistance from Vichy French troops. The infamous Afrika Korps ...

A new history charts how Palestinian militants of the nineteen-seventies made common cause with West Germany’s radical left.

Another Border Patrol agent was found drunk in his car and covered in vomit early Tuesday morning in St. Paul. After failing ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Despite all that, Zamyatin was lucky. Other writers who (to quote from the same letter) earned a “criminal name” ...