Warsaw was left devastated and in ruins when the Germans retreated and the Red Army arrived 75 years ago.

A humble memorial on a sunny Caribbean island reminds the viewer how far world wars can reach.   

Memory and sorrow: An unforgettable tribute to the suffering of Mother Russia at the Great Patriotic War Museum.

Remembrance of Soviet heroes in the Hall of Glory at the Great Patriotic War Museum.

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. 

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.