The death toll was staggering. 

Hilter's Gotterdammerung: The climactic Battle of Berlin as seen at the Great Patriotic War Museum in Moscow.

Breaching Hitler's Eastern Wall: Crossing the Dnieper River at the Great Patriotic War Museum.

From the Grand Alliance to the Cold War.

Reflections on the greatest tank battle in history: The Kursk diorama at the Great Patriotic War Museum. 

After the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939, France and Great Britain had to decide if they would once again try the policy of appeasement or stand up to Hitler.

Confronting the chilling agony of the Siege of Leningrad in the Great Patriotic War Museum.

Epic victory: Euphoria at Stalingrad in the Great Patriotic War Museum.

A historian views the Battle for Moscow in the Museum of the Great Patriotic War. 

So big was World War II that the second defeat of the German Sixth Army at the “Jassy-Kishinev operation” is now almost forgotten.

How the strategic location of the diamond-shaped peninsula proved too much for the Germans.

The heroic stand of Finland against the Soviet Union in 1939 was a lesson for the ages.