'Terrific . . . a tour de force' Sir Richard Evans 'Military history at its very best' Keith
Lowe A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis from
the bestselling historian *********** June 1944: In Operation Bagration more than two million
Red Army soldiers facing 500 000 German soldiers finally avenged their defeat in Operation
Barbarossa in 1941. The same month saw the Allies triumph on the beaches of Normandy but
despite the myths that remain it was the events on the Eastern Front that sealed Hitler's fate
and destroyed Nazism. In his new book bestselling historian Jonathan Dimbleby describes and
analyses this momentous year covering the military political and diplomatic story in his
evocative style. Drawing on previously untranslated German Russian and Polish sources we see
how sophisticated new forms of deception and ruthless Partisan warfare shifted the Soviets'
fortunes how their triumphs effectively gave Stalin authority to occupy Eastern Europe and how
it was the events of 1944 that enabled Stalin to dictate the terms of the post-war settlement
laying the foundations for the Cold War . . . *********** 'Visceral and compelling
authoritative' Sinclair McKay 'Extraordinarily vivid and absorbing' Brendan Simms
