A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'The best single-volume account of the Barbarossa campaign to date' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny'A page-turning descent into Hell and back . . . this fresh and compelling account of Hitler's failed invasion of the Soviet Union should be on everyone's reading list for 2021' Dr Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire______________...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'This book is his best yet . . . Dimbleby’s work is in a different league, told with such skill and judgment' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesA gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historianJune 1944: In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 Ger...

Fu chiamata operazione Bagration, in onore del famoso generale russo che morì per le ferite riportate nel 1812, resistendo agli invasori francesi nella battaglia di Borodino. È passata alla Storia come “il più potente assalto della Seconda guerra mondiale”, l’epico scontro che terminò con la disfatta dell’armata tedesca. Un esito che, secondo Dimbleby e altri illustri storici britannici, mette radicalmente in discussione il mito, radicato nell’immaginario occidentale, che vuole la sconfitt...

Met operatie Barbarossa, de Duitse invasie van Rusland in de zomer van 1941, wenste Hitler niets minder te bereiken dan de vernietiging van het Sovjetcommunisme, de uitroeiing van de Joden en het scheppen van lebensraum voor het arische ras. Maar de Duitse opmars werd een kolossale mislukking en leidde tot de totale ineenstorting van het Derde Rijk. In Barbarossa presenteert Jonathan Dimbleby een nieuwe, meeslepend geschreven reconstructie van de meest beslissende veldslag uit de moderne g...

It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Winston Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'. And yet the significance of this episode remains unrecognised. In this thrilling historical account, Jonathan Dimbleby describes the political and strategic realities that lay behind the battle, charting the nail-biting months that led to the victo...

Brought to you by Penguin.Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a war of extermination to annihilate Soviet communism, liquidate the Jews and create Lebensraum for the German master race. But it led to the destruction of the Third Reich, and was cataclysmic for Germany with millions of men killed, wounded or registered as missing in action. It was this colossal mistake -- rather than any action in Western Europe ...

Winston Churchill famously described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma' and even today it remains a country little understood by the West. In this revealing portrait, Jonathan Dimbleby crosses eight time zones and covers 10,000 miles in an attempt to get to the beating heart of the new Russia.His epic journey takes him from the Arctic city of Murmansk in the west to the Asian port of Vladivostok in the east, and he encounters an extraordinary range of people...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Battle of the Atlantic, written and read by Jonathan Dimbleby.The Battle of the Atlantic was - though often overlooked - crucial to victory in the Second World War. If the German U-boats had prevailed, the maritime artery across the Atlantic would have been severed. Mass hunger would have consumed Britain, and the Allied armies would have been prevented from joining in the invasion of Europe. There would have b...

"Interesting conclusions about the conduct of British foreign policy on Hong Kong . . . an extraordinary diplomatic, political and personal drama."—Julian Stockwin, author of To the Eastern Seas1 July 1997 marked the end of British rule of Hong Kong, whereby this territory was passed into the hands of the People's Republic of China.In 1992, Chris Patten, former chairman of the Conservative Party, was appointed Hong Kong's last governor, and was the...

**Brought to you by Penguin.A Sunday Times BestsellerA gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historian**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 East...

En mesterlig fortælling om den største militære operation i historien og det mest afgørende slag i 2. Verdenskrig: Hitlers invasion af Sovjetunionen i juni 1941.Formålet med Operation Barbarossa var at udrydde sovjetisk kommunisme, likvidere jøderne og skabe lebensraum for det tyske herrefolk. Hvis det var lykkedes for Hitler at indtage Sovjetunionen, havde han haft Europas skæbne i sine hænder, men i stedet førte operationen til tilintetgørelsen af Det Tredje Rige. I løbet af seks...

Η Επιχείρηση Μπαρμπαρόσα, η εισβολή του Χίτλερ στη Ρωσία τον Ιούνιο του 1941, είχε ως στόχο τον αφανισμό του σοβιετικού κομμουνισμού, του Εβραϊσμού και την επακόλουθη δημιουργία ζωτικού χώρου (Lebensraum) για τη γερμανική άρια φυλή. Ωστόσο, η Επιχείρηση οδήγησε στην καταστροφή του Τρίτου Ράιχ και είχε ολέθριες συνέπειες για τη Γερμανία, καθώς εκατομμύρια άνδρες σκοτώθηκαν, τραυματίστηκαν ή χάθηκαν στα πεδία των μαχών. Ήταν ένα κολοσσιαίο λάθος μεγαλύτερο ίσως από οποιοδήποτε άλλο σε αυτό τ...