Night of the assassins : [large print] the untold story of Hitler's plot to kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin / Howard Blum.
Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Large Print, [2020]Description: 531 p. (large print), 8 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780063000230Report number: BR-Fall 20Subject(s): Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 | Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 | Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965Genre/Form: History. | Instructional and educational works. | Large type books.Summary: The year is 1943 and the three Allied leaders--Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, are meeting for the first time at a top-secret conference in Tehran. But the Nazis have learned about the meeting and Hitler sees it as his last chance to turn the tide. Although the war is undoubtedly lost, the Germans believe that perhaps a new set of Allied leaders might be willing to make a more reasonable peace in its aftermath. And so a plan is devised, code name Operation Long Jump, to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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The year is 1943 and the three Allied leaders--Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, are meeting for the first time at a top-secret conference in Tehran. But the Nazis have learned about the meeting and Hitler sees it as his last chance to turn the tide. Although the war is undoubtedly lost, the Germans believe that perhaps a new set of Allied leaders might be willing to make a more reasonable peace in its aftermath. And so a plan is devised, code name Operation Long Jump, to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin.