THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day. Read and
remember the history that led to this important moment. ' 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
