02315cam a2200385 i 4500 401732099 TxAuBib 20191106120000.0 190126s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062905680 $28.99 0062905686 $28.99 (OCoLC)1083287747 TxAuBib rda Baier, Bret,. Three days at the brink : FDR's daring gamble to win World War II / Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney. 3 days at the brink. First edition. New York, N.Y. : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollingPublishers, [2019] xiv, 434 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-422) and index. 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 bedfellows 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. 20191106. Roosevelt, Franklin D Franklin Delano 1882-1945. Churchill, Winston Sir 1874-1965. Stalin, Joseph 1879-1953. Teheran Conference (1943 : Tehran, Iran.) World War, 1939-1945 Diplomatic history. Whitney, Catherine, author.