Three days at the brink: FDR's daring gamble to win World War II
November 1943: World War II teetered in the balance. The Nazis controlled nearly all of the European continent. Japan dominated the Pacific. Allied successes at Sicily and Guadalcanal had gained modest ground but at an extraordinary cost. On the Eastern Front, the Soviets had already lost millions o...
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| Zusammenfassung: | November 1943: World War II teetered in the balance. The Nazis controlled nearly all of the European continent. Japan dominated the Pacific. Allied successes at Sicily and Guadalcanal had gained modest ground but at an extraordinary cost. On the Eastern Front, the Soviets had already lost millions of lives. That same month in Tehran, with the fate of the world in question, the 'Big Three,' Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, secretly met for the first time to chart a strategy for defeating Hitler. Over three days, this trio, strange bed fellows united by their mutual responsibility as heads of the Allied powers, made essential decisions that would direct the final years of the war and its aftermath. Meanwhile, looming over the covert meeting was the possible threat of a Nazi assassination plot nicknamed 'Operation Long Jump,' heightening the already dramatic stakes |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS Introduction: Ending FDR Prologue: The “Big Three” Dinner Party ix 1 PART ONE: THE MAKING OF FDR 1 To Whom Much Is Given 13 2 Into the Arena 34 3 The Crucible 60 4 In the Footsteps of Cousin Teddy 87 PART TWO: SEEKING GREATNESS 5 The Mighty Pen 117 6 Governing in Crisis 127 7 Franklin and Winston 150 8 The Rise of the Allies 190 9 The Common Cause 203 PART THREE: THREE DAYS AT THE BRINK 10 The Road to Tehran 257 11 Your House Is My House 275
CONTENTS 12 Clash of Titans 291 13 Like a Rainbow 302 PART FOUR: THE ENDGAME 14 At Last, Overlord 321 15 FDR’s Final Act 337 16 The World He Left Behind 361 The Last Word: 76 Years Later: Keep Talking 381 Acknowledgments 389 Notes 393 Index 423
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