THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ' This book is his best yet . . . Dimbleby's work is in a
different league told with such skill and judgment' Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times 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 . . . 'Mr. Dimbleby is a sure-footed guide to the
labyrinthine military operations along a front line that extended nearly 2 000 miles from the
Baltic to the Black Sea' Wall Street Journal 'Terrific . . . a tour de force' Sir Richard
Evans 'Military history at its very best' Keith Lowe Sunday Time Bestseller June 2024
