Jonathan Dimbleby talks to David Olusoga

Prepare to be enthralled as historian Jonathan Dimbleby takes you on a journey through 1944, the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis. In conversation with fellow historian David Olusoga, Dimbleby discusses his new book Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War. The year is probably best known for the Allies’ triumph on the beaches of Normandy, but Dimbleby takes readers beyond this to the events on the Eastern Front in 1944 that delivered the knockout blow in the Second World War.

Dimbleby discusses with Olusoga how previously untranslated German and Russian sources, many from ‘ordinary’ soldiers, helped him tell the story of 1944, and gives an insight into some of the bloody battles along the Eastern front and the unusual roles played by deception, the partisans, and the war within a war in Ukraine. Dimbleby's previous books include the highly acclaimed Second World War histories The Battle of the Atlantic and Destiny in the Desert: The Road to El Alamein, which was shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize and was followed by his BBC2 programme Churchill's Desert War.