Joseph Stalin

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Soviet Union could never allocate enough of the country’s resources to build a real fleet of aircraft carriers. There was always some other...

Winston Churchill may be viewed as the UK’s greatest prime minister, and it is questionable whether anyone else could have led the British people through the Second World War. Yet,...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Kiev-class carriers had an offensive armament in the form of SS-N-12 “Sandbox” antiship missiles, each of which could carry a 350-kiloton nuclear warhead. Four Kievs...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Soviet Union entered the 1940s as an enigmatic Communist colossus, but finished the decade as one of the world’s great powers. After suffering more...

Key Point: Operation Unthinkable was truly unthinkable. In the spring of 1945, Winston Churchill asked his military chiefs to prepare a secret plan. That was nothing new. The hyper-energetic Churchill was...

Key Point: Drive on Moscow, like Operation Typhoon, is a race against time. After seventy-five years, the question remains so tantalizing: What if the Germans had captured Moscow in December 1941?...