- Published: 28 May 2024
- ISBN: 9780241536728
- Imprint: Viking
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 640
- RRP: $36.99
Endgame 1944
How Stalin Won The War
- Published: 28 May 2024
- ISBN: 9780241536728
- Imprint: Viking
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 640
- RRP: $36.99
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
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
Magnificent . . . draws on so much good material.
Dr David Stahel
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
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
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