About the book: 2014 / To the 70th anniversary of the legendary Operation Bagration. A new book by a leading military historian, dedicated to the greatest triumph of the Red Army. The best modern study of the enormous Soviet offensive, during which Army Group Center, the largest army group on the Eastern Front, was defeated in just two weeks. A new look at the turning point of the Great Patriotic War. Did you know that this phenomenal victory in Belarus was preceded by a series of unsuccessful offensive operations and from the autumn of 1943 to the spring of 1944, the western direction was a positional “Verdun” for the Red Army, so the Supreme The Commander-in-Chief even had to authorize an investigation by the State Defense Committee commission, take the most stringent measures and draw impartial “organizational conclusions”? How did our troops manage to overcome this positional impasse, turning the trench “meat grinder” into a major maneuver operation, which is rightly called the “Stalinist blitzkrieg”? What made it possible not only to break through, but to completely collapse the enemy’s defenses? Why did the Germans fail to maintain the integrity of the front and retreat to new positions in an organized manner? How did the heavy defeat of the Wehrmacht develop into the worst military disaster in German history? And who is to blame for this “epic defeat”?.. Based on operational documents not only from Soviet, but also German archives, this investigation restores the course of the brilliant Operation Bagration, which largely predetermined the Great Victory.