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This is the podcast, of course, that examines the great events of the Second World War 80 years ago.

Well, virtually 80 years ago, as I speak, the Battle of Normandy was raging as the Allied

forces struggled to break out of their hard-won bridgehead and start the march on Berlin.

The memorials to this world-historic moment have been inescapable, with moving images of

some of the brave old survivors

gamely crossing the channel to salute their fallen comrades.

But at exactly the same time, another world historical military operation was being launched,

Operation Bagration, the huge Soviet push westwards to drive the Vermect out of its conquests and launched three years

to the day when Hitler had turned on his old partner in crime, Joseph Stalin. With the allies

crowding in from one direction, Hitler and his armies were now caught in a gigantic vice

that would tighten inexorably throughout the months ahead.

Everyone's heard of D-Day. Not so many know about Bagration, though our listeners will be more

aware of it than most. Well, here to talk about it to me today is a master of the subject,

Jonathan Dimbleby, legendary broadcaster on TV and radio, who's also established himself

as a formidable military historian with books on El Alamein, The Battle of the Atlantic,

and latterly, the war on the Eastern Front, with studies of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's

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