.Seventy thousand people were killed instantly, and many more would die— 60,000 by November and another 70,000 by 1950. Most of them would be victims of a new method of killing — radiation...”

“the battle of stalingrad is not a turning point necessarily in strategic terms, because a lot more has to be done before the soviets can be certain of defeating germany,” says renowned world war ii historian richard overy. the germans had fought nearly a thousand miles across the soviet union to get to stalingrad.