377: Verdun on the Volga


Red Army soldiers fighting in the ruins of the Red October steelworks in Stalingrad.

The Battle of Stalingrad raged on. The Germans slowly gained ground, but took major casualties.

Red Army soldiers devised new ways of tormenting their enemies, including the Soviet secret weapon, the Katyusha rocket launcher.

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Fanfare

Opening War Theme

The Capture of Kars
Composed in 1880 by Modest Mussorgsky. Public domain.
Performed by the University of Chicago Orchestra and used pursuant to a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Source.

Closing War Theme


Except when otherwise indicated, the contents of this podcast are © and ℗ 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 by Mark Painter, all rights reserved. Some music and sound effects used by arrangement with Pond 5.

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