Germany’s early success in Barbarossa hid the problems that would later help destroy the campaign. Exhaustion, distance, supply failures, and Soviet resistance began wearing down the Wehrmacht long ...

June 22nd marks the 70th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union -- the biggest military adventure in history, which led directly to the downfall of Adolf ...

No Spanish ships or ports were safe when dread pirate Barbarossa, ally of the powerful Ottoman Empire, sailed the high seas. Hayreddin’s brother Oruç was the first to be known as Barbarossa. His ...

Nazi Germany led the largest-ever ground invasion force in an attack on the Soviet Union in 1941 that unleashed a brutal conflict that cost the lives of millions of people. 1 This photo -- of German ...

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Stalin had months of warnings that Nazi Germany was preparing to invade the Soviet Union. But he refused to believe Hitler ...

Barbarossa: Siege Lord (2009) Director: Renzo Martinelli Entertainment grade: E History grade: C Frederick I Barbarossa was King of Germany and later Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1155-1190.

Operation Barbarossa was Hitler’s megalomaniac undoing – can any historian do it justice? Julian Evans writes about books and writers, and was previously the literary editor of British Esquire. His ...

Frederick the First, called Barbarossa because of his red beard, was not an easy choice for an Age of Kings campaign. He is certain to be the least well known of the five campaign protagonists.