An exciting and authentic overview of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, by the award-winning historian. June 1944: In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 German soldiers, ultimately avenged their defeat in Operation Barbarossa in 1941. That same year, the Allies triumphed on the beaches of Normandy, but despite the myths that endure, events on the Eastern Front sealed Hitler's fate and destroyed Nazism. In his new book, award-winning historian Jonathan Dimbleby describes and analyzes this pivotal year, covering military, political, and diplomatic history in his characteristic style. Drawing on previously untranslated German, Russian, and Polish sources, we see how specialized new forms of deception and the relentless guerrilla warfare changed the fortunes of the Soviets, how their triumphs empowered Stalin to seize Eastern Europe, and how the events of 1944 allowed Stalin to impose the terms of the post-war settlement, laying the groundwork for the Cold War. Mr. Dimbleby is a sure guide through the labyrinthine military operations along a front that spanned nearly 2,000 miles, from the Baltic to the Black Sea.