"Fall 1944. Paris has been liberated, but this diversion on the road to Berlin has given the Germans time to regroup. The American and the British armies press on from the wet, while American general George Patton and British field marshal Bernard Montgomery vie for supremacy as the Allies' top battlefield commander. The Soviets begin to squeeze Hitler's crumbling Reich, led by generals Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev. And Winston Churchill seeks to ensure Britain's place in a new world. Dugard follows the final, desperate months of the Second World War, and the fiery destruction of the Thousand-Year Reich." -- Adapted from jacket.