ENDGAME 1944

A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis from the bestselling historianJune 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 Ev