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The battle Winston Churchill called "the hinge of fate" was Stalingrad, where in 100 days of deadly street fighting, the outnumbered Red Army held off the entire might of the Wehrmacht's Sixth Army, preventing them from reaching the Volga.

John and Carol Garrard will present a lecture on this topic.They are the authors of "The Bones of Berdichev: The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossmann," the first biography of the Red Army's leading war correspondent, a man who was present during every day of the savage urban guerrilla combat at Stalingrad. The Garrards will discuss the lessons of the Battle of Stalingrad and their contemporary significance, given that the United States is today involved in urban guerrilla warfare in Iraq.