Victory seemed within their grasp, but what Paulus and Hitler didn't know was that Zhukov and Stalin were planning something that would change the battle, and the war - Operation Uranus.

Remembering Operation Uranus, Soviet counterattack at Stalingrad The Battle of Stalingrad is one of the largest and bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, and was a turning point in World ...

Arguably the event that started it all was the Red Army’s Operation Uranus in 1942. Taking advantage of the poorly positioned enemy forces around Stalingrad, the Russians crushed through the ...

In September 1942 Rokossovsky was appointed commander of the Stalingrad Front and helped develop the operation Uranus that led to the surrender of Nazi Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus MOSCOW, May 6 ...