Endgame 1944 : how Stalin won the war / Jonathan Dimbleby.

Dimbleby, Jonathan, author

London : Penguin Books, 2025.

xliv, 596 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm

Originally published: 2024.
Originally published: UK: Viking, 2024.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. 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 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.

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English

World War II : Spring 1944 : Crimea : Stalin : Red Army : Budapest : Baltic Dunkirk : Eastern Front : Ukrainian Offensives : Leningrad Front : Soviet Union

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