Endgame 1944

A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from bestselling historian Jonathan Dimbleby.

About the event

June 1944. Operation Bagration. More than two million Red Army soldiers, facing half a million German soldiers, finally avenged their defeat in Operation Barbarossa in 1941. The same month saw the Allies triumph on the beaches of Normandy, but it was the events on the Eastern Front that sealed Hitler’s fate and put a stop to Nazism.

Bestselling historian Jonathan Dimbleby draws on previously untranslated German, Russian and Polish sources to show 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.

About the speaker

Jonathan Dimbleby is a broadcaster and author, whose 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’.