General Alvan C. Gillem led the hard-charging XIII Corps across the Rhine into the heart of Nazi Germany.   More »

In early 1945, Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev executed a stunning offensive against the Germancs in the Vistula-Oder area.   More »

A pivotal engagement during the bitter Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland had far reaching consequences.   More »

Joseph Stalin’s crony, Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, became the disgraced First Marshal of the Soviet Union, but always survived.   More »

Vyacheslav Molotov a founding member of Soviet Communism, confronted anti-Soviet figures from Hitler to Truman, and outlived his Kremlin colleagues.   More »

Following the fall of Poland, an amazed world watched tiny Finland, a nation of less than four million people, fight off 26 Russian divisions.   More »

Locked in a life-or-death struggle with Bolshevik Russia, Poland used its intelligence-gathering and code-breaking abilities to preserve the nation.   More »

Marshal Semyon M. Budenny was the hero of the Red Cavalry in the Russian Civil and Great Patriotic Wars.   More »

At Yalta, Churchill agreed to turn over to Stalin all captured Soviet Cossacks that had been on the German side. Surely he knew what that meant.   More »

Blamed for the British defeat at Singapore, General Arthur Percival endured harsh criticism.   More »