Learning lessons from Stalingrad? How can we extract lessons from such a waste of human life? Suffering and desperation was never seen on such a scale before. But in the midst of it all individuals were creating their own small slice of history. For me Stalingrad is also about the nameless individuals who committed acts of bravery that will never be known.

Here's my first lesson - realise that the acts of greatness on a large scale are made-up of of many small acts. What act of greatness did you do today?