Endgame 1944 : how Stalin won the war /
by Dimbleby, Jonathan.
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BookPublisher: UK : Viking, 2024Description: xlii, 596 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780241536711 (hbk.) :; 0241536715 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 940.5421 DIMSubject(s): Operation Bagration, 1944 | Warfare and Defence | Warfare and Defence | USSR, Soviet Union | European history | History | Military history | Second World WarSummary: 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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| 940.5421 COR Berlin: victory in Europe | 940.5421 DEL The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's final gamble | 940.5421 DIM Barbarossa : how Hitler lost the war / | 940.5421 DIM Endgame 1944 : how Stalin won the war / | 940.5421 DOW The army that never was / | 940.5421 DUN The pendulum of battle: | 940.5421 FIS Sword beach : the untold story of D-Day's forgotten victory / |
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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