Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov—by Geoffrey Roberts (Random House, $30). The most formidable Allied commander of World War II was not British or American but Russian. Georgy Zhukov ...

Georgy Zhukov certainly was, as Geoffrey Roberts puts it, "the great general who had saved the Soviet Union from catastrophic defeat by Hitler and then led the country to a great victory," but the ...

Georgy Zhukov fought back the Nazis and captured Berlin, but the great marshal fared worse in the dirty power struggle between communist bosses that came after the war. When Georgy Zhukov ...

Four times Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal Georgy Zhukov was the architect of the Red Army’s key victories over the Nazis during World War II. He was always dispatched to the most dangerous ...

Georgy Zhukov certainly was, as Geoffrey Roberts puts it, "the great general who had saved the Soviet Union from catastrophic defeat by Hitler and then led the country to a great victory," but the ...

That was an issue for Soviet Gen. Georgy Zhukov, who came to like Coca-Cola during the war. The US tried to get Coke to Zhukov to keep at least one friend across the Iron Curtain. See more stories ...

On a summer afternoon in 1945, an American newsman asked a visitor to Moscow, “What do you think of Zhukov?” Answered Five-Star General Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Georgy is a very decent fellow.

Five months ago. when Nikita Khrushchev was engaged in mortal political battle with Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich, it was Marshal Georgy Zhukov who came to Khrushchev’s rescue in a crucial ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin waves after a wreath laying ceremony at the monument to Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. As the Ukraine crisis ...

MOSCOW – Protesters have torn down a towering bust of Soviet military hero Marshal Georgy Zhukov in Ukraine's second-largest city. Destruction of the monument in Kharkiv on Sunday came amid ...

1 The scene on Moscow's Manezhnaya Square on March 20 after a monument to Soviet World War II Marshal Georgy Zhukov (on ground at left) was taken down overnight and replaced with a slightly ...

“An order was received to destroy the enemy with a daring Zhukov maneuver, just like 80 years ago,” the blogger added, referring to Russian general Georgy Zhukov, who has become notorious ...