The Tragic Story of the 8th Guards — the Men Who Fought From Stalingrad to Berlin

On a hill above the city now called Volgograd, a Soviet marshal lies buried among the men he commanded. In the autumn of 1942, Vasily Chuikov sent 10,000 of them across a river in a single night, into a city that was already burning. By the end of that month, fewer than 6,000 were still standing. This is the story of the army that walked into Stalingrad as the 62nd and walked out of the rubble with a different name — the most decorated formation in the Red Army, and a title other soldiers said out loud with something close to fear. It ends in Berlin. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/62nd_Ar...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_Gua... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_...