In the four-month battle between Germany and the Soviet Red Army for Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the summer and winter of 1942-43, an estimated 1 million people died on both sides. It was a titanic, ...

This is the sixth in a series about a journey, by train and bicycle, across Russia to Crimea shortly before the war began. My night train to Volgograd, which was Stalingrad in its hours of desperation ...