<div>&#8220;Provides more than ample strategic and operational detail and context about the operation...The human view of combat... is most revealing and significant.&#8221;&#8212;<i>Journal of Slavic Military </i><i>Studies</i>. It was a battle worse than the one at Stalingrad, and World War II&#8217;s turning point, thanks to Hitler&#8217;s strategic miscalculations. Succinct and groundbreaking, this analysis of the largely ignored, bloody conflict in Byelorussia reveals how the Nazis lost the Eastern Front. Their defeat cost 350,000 casualities&#8212;and left the war effort doomed and broken.<br></div>