Bestselling historian Andrew Nagorski takes a fresh go through the decisive season 1941, when Hitler’s miscalculations and policy of terror propelled Churchill, FDR, and Stalin into a powerful brand-new alliance that defeated Nazi Germany.

In early 1941, Hitler’s armies ruled most of Europe. Churchill’s Britain was an isolated holdout against the Nazi tide, but German bombers had been attacking its metropolitan areas and German U-boats were attacking its ships. Stalin was watching the terms of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, about The 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War and Roosevelt was vowing to keep the United States out of the war. Hitler was assured that his goal of total success was at your fingertips.

By the finish of 1941, all that changed. Hitler experienced repeatedly gambled on escalation and lost: by invading the Soviet Union and committing some disastrous military blunders; by making mass murder and terror his weapons of choice, and by hurrying to declare battle on the United States after Japan’s assault on Pearl Harbor. Britain surfaced with two powerful brand-new allies—Russia and america. By then, Germany was doomed to defeat.

Nagorski illuminates the activities of the major characters of the pivotal year as never before. 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War can be a stunning examination of unbridled megalomania versus motivated leadership. It also reveals how 1941 established the Holocaust in movement, and presaged the postwar department of European countries, triggering the Cold Battle. 1941 was a 12 months that forever described our world.