Endgame 1944 offers an account of the Soviet victories in 1944 that enabled Stalin to dictate the terms of the post-war settlement, which laid the foundations for the Cold War.
What The Reviewers Say
Dominic Sandbrook,
The Times (UK)
This book is [Dimbleby's] best yet.
Patrick Bishop,
The Telegraph (UK)
Dimbleby tells the story of the titanic operation well, swooping from panoramic strategic overview to harrowing close-ups of the battlefield reality drawn from a rich fund of individual accounts.
Bertrand M. Patenaude,
The Wall Street Journal
Epic.
Neal Ascherson,
The Guardian (UK)
As a historian, Jonathan Dimbleby has written several good books about the second world war. But this is the most interesting..