1944: THE BEGINNING OF THE END:THE SECOND WORLD WAR A Seven-Volume History-VOLUME SIX

1944: The Beginning of the End

Volume Six of The Second World War: A Seven-Volume History

The outcome had become inevitable. The price of victory remained unknown.

From bestselling author and historian Quentin Drummond Anderson comes the sixth volume of his sweeping history of the greatest conflict humanity has ever endured.

By 1944, the tide of war had turned. Nazi Germany was surrounded, Japan was retreating across the Pacific, and the vast industrial and military power of the Allies was finally being unleashed. But victory was not peace — and the final road would be measured in blood.

It was the year of D-Day, when Allied armies stormed the beaches of Normandy. It was the year Operation Bagration shattered the German army in the East. It was the year Paris was liberated, Hitler survived the bomb meant to kill him, and the Third Reich made its last desperate attempts to change history.

From the ruins of Cassino to the hedgerows of France, from the skies over Germany to the greatest naval battle in history at Leyte Gulf, 1944 was the year the world moved towards the endgame.

At its centre stood the figures who would shape victory and the world beyond it — Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Eisenhower, Montgomery, Patton and Zhukov — leaders carrying not only the burden of war, but the first shadows of the peace that would follow.

Yet amid the triumph came tragedy: the Holocaust’s final horrors, the Warsaw Uprising, the terror weapons, and millions still caught in the machinery of a conflict entering its final and most brutal phase.

1944: The Beginning of the End is the story of the year when defeat became certain — but history’s greatest war still demanded its final sacrifice.

© 2026 Quentin Anderson (Lydbog): 9780466291860

Udgivelsesdato

Lydbog: 14. oktober 2026