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Endgame 1944
How Stalin Won The War
«Extraordinary . . . Dimbleby paints a unique picture of the vast, unremitting living hell that was the Eastern Front in the final full year of the war.»
Frederick Taylor, author of Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February, 1945
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
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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
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Viking
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 640
- ISBN
- 9780241536728
- Utgivelsesår
- 2024
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
Om forfatteren
Jonathan Dimbleby's previous books include the highly acclaimed Second World War histories
The Battle of the Atlantic and
Destiny in the Desert: The Road to El Alamein, which was shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize and was followed by his BBC2 programme
Churchill's Desert War. His other books include,
Russia: A Journey to the Heart of a Land and Its People, Richard Dimbleby: A Biography, The Palestinians, The Prince of Wales: A Biography and
The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong.
Anmeldelser
«Extraordinary . . . Dimbleby paints a unique picture of the vast, unremitting living hell that was the Eastern Front in the final full year of the war.»
Frederick Taylor, author of Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February, 1945
«Titanic . . . This book is his best yet . . . For all their popularity, many books about the world wars are immensely boring and inelegantly written. Dimbleby’s work is in a different league, told with such skill and judgment that, despite the harrowing subject, it is still a pleasure to read. As in all good narrative histories, it is the human details that linger in the mind.»
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
«Jonathan Dimbleby’s best book yet»
Observer
«Pacily written . . . The detail is terrific, and the extracts from diaries, letters and so on make an indelible impression. The description of the last months of the war in Budapest is a tour de force.»
Sir Richard Evans, author of The Third Reich in History and Memory
«Dimbleby has unearthed some powerful voices to producing an engaging mix of the familiar and the new. Fascinating stuff.»
Roger Moorhouse, author of The Forgers
«Magnificent . . . draws on so much good material.»
Dr David Stahel
«One of the strengths of this book is the line it draws between the awful then of 1944 and the grim events of today . . . Endgame 1944 is thus as much a primer for the present as it is sound history»
Patrick Bishop, Telegraph
«Endgame 1944 paints a vivid picture of the fighting at both the bayonet end and at high command, but rightly probes the complex relationship between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, powered by different and incompatible visions of the purpose of victory»
Allan Mallinson, Country Life
«Mr. Dimbleby is a sure-footed guide to the labyrinthine military operations alonga front line that extended nearly 2,000 miles, from the Baltic to the Black Sea»
Wall Street Journal
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