EndGame 1944

Sobre el libro EndGame 1944 de Jonathan Dimbleby publicado por Random UK al 2025:

A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historianJune : In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army soldiers, facing , German soldiers, finally avenged their defeat in Operation Barbarossa in . 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 Hitlers 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 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 , miles, from the Baltic to the Black Sea Wall Street JournalTerrific . . . a tour de force Sir Richard EvansMilitary history at its very best Keith LoweSunday Times Bestseller, June