Third Battle of Kharkov: How The Germans Set a Deadly Trap for Russian Troops

As the year 1943 progressed, a series of attacks centred around Stalingrad in southern Russia, resulted in some of the most intense fighting on the Eastern Front during WWII. The once-invincible German Wehrmacht was in disarray, having been forced back across a 175-mile stretch of Russian front by the Red Army. Near their headquarters on the Don River, a two-pronged Russian army threatened to surround and annihilate a German battlegroup, much larger than the one lost at Stalingrad.