In all the years of World War II, there was not a battle as brutal or bloody as that which took place in the city of Stalingrad. Aside from being one of the worst battles in the war, it is also considered to be one of the bloodiest in all of history. Between the Germans and the Soviets, an estimated two million people died - many of them civilians. The fight continued for many months, from August of 1942 to February of 1943, through the long and harsh Russian winter. It would turn out to be a major turning point in the war, in which the German forces were defeated so soundly that they never truly recovered on the Eastern Front.
