The common image of Stalin is that of an absolute dictator whose position in command of the USSR he was almost omnipotent, firm and immovable. The truth is that there was a moment when he faltered or, at least, he himself believed. It was when the Wehrmacht unleashed Operation Barbarossa , launchin
The Bettoni column belonged to 8. Italian Army , tasked with protecting the left flank of the German 6th Army as it advanced towards Stalingrad. The Italians, deployed south of the winding Don, occupied a front too extensive to be defended with the few forces they had. The Soviet 63rd Army had been
The capture of the English ship Kent by Robert Surcouf in 1800 in the Bay of Bengal • THE HOLBARN ARCHIVE/ BRIDGEMAN IMAGES Pronouncing certain surnames such as Surcouf, Duguay-Trouin or Chateaubriand immediately brings to mind Saint-Malo, whose name alone evokes the memory of a corsair city. Th
On December 7, 1941, an air attack led by Japan hit the American base at Pearl Harbor, located in the islands of Hawaii. Faced with this aggression, the Americans declared war on Japan on December 8, as well as on Germany on December 11. In an expansionist logic (desire to expand its territory beyon