Jonathan Dimbleby Endgame 1944

The historian, presenter and author of Barbarossa recounts the twists and turns of Operation Bagration in June 1944 - the Soviet offensive of more than two million Red Army soldiers facing 500,000 German soldiers. An offensive that won the Second World War for the Allies and cemented Stalin’s post-war power. Drawing on previously untranslated German, Russian and Polish sources, he’ll explain how Soviet triumphs effectively gave Stalin authority to occupy Eastern Europe and enabled him to dictate the terms of the post-war settlement, laying the foundations for the Cold War and our relationship with Russia today.

Talking to Iain MacGregor