Author: Andrew Busch

By mid-July 1942, our main character Franz Maedler and his unit were on the road to Stalingrad. “Case Blue” was the name given to the German summer offensive that year. The year before, Operation Barbarossa had brought the Wehrmacht within…

February 2 marks the 80th anniversary of the surrender of German forces in the battle of Stalingrad. Most of the surviving 91,000 troops (of the original 330,000) surrendered to Soviet forces at the end of a battle that had been…

Our story in Faces in the Window begins while the World War II battle of Stalingrad is raging. Franz Maedler, wounded in the battle, has managed to escape the city when it was still possible. Now he is on his…