In the scorching hell of Stalingrad, in August 1942, a colossal concrete and steel fortress loomed over the burning city. The grain elevator, a 35-meter titan of Soviet industry, was about to ...

“The grain elevators there have been key terrain and ... troops that refused to give up a concrete silo at the Battle of Stalingrad. Besieged by the German Sixth Army, roughly 50 Soviet ...