Stalingrad and the Red Army (TRIH ep 215, part 2)
1942 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History features hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interviewing Ian McGregor about the Battle of Stalingrad. They open with a passage from Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate and then discuss the micro-history of Pavlov's House, its tactical importance in the shattered city and the propaganda that turned it into a Soviet totem.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1942
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)