Endgame 1944A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historian. June 1944. Operation Bagration the greatest defeat ever suffered by the German Armed Forces. More than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 German adversaries, finally avenged their defeat in Operation Barbarossa three years earlier. In the ensuing three weeks, Hitler's Army Group Centre lost 28 of its 32 divisions. While the