A thorough account of the fierce, seven-month Battle of Stalingrad, a bloody WWII conflict between German and Russian troops that resulted in more than a million casualties. Included: archival footage; information gleaned from the Russian archives; interviews with military historians, veterans of the battle and Sergei Khrushchev, the son of Nikita Khrushchev, who at the time served on Soviet premier Joseph Stalin's military council.