{"product_id":"three-days-at-the-brink-fdrs-daring-gamble-to-win-world-war-ii-isbn-9780062905697","title":"Three Days at the Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Instant \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I could not put this extraordinary book down. \u003cem\u003eThree Days at the Brink\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterpiece: elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and impeccably researched. This book not only sparkles but is destined to be a classic!” —Jay Winik, bestselling author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of \u003cem\u003eSpecial Report with Bret Baier\u003c\/em\u003e, comes the\u003cbr\u003egripping lost history of the Tehran Conference, where FDR, Churchill, and\u003cbr\u003eStalin plotted D-Day and the Second World War’s endgame. With the fate of World\u003cbr\u003eWar II in doubt and rumors of a Nazi assassination plot swirling, Franklin\u003cbr\u003eRoosevelt risked everything at a clandestine meeting that would change the\u003cbr\u003ecourse of history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNovember 1943: The Nazis and their Axis allies controlled nearly\u003cbr\u003ethe entire European continent. Japan dominated the Pacific. Allied successes at\u003cbr\u003eSicily and Guadalcanal had gained them modest ground but at an extraordinary\u003cbr\u003ecost. On the Eastern Front, the Soviet Red Army had been bled white. The path of\u003cbr\u003ehistory walked a knife’s edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat same month a daring gambit was hatched that would alter\u003cbr\u003eeverything. The \"Big Three\"—Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill,\u003cbr\u003eand Joseph Stalin—secretly met for the first time to chart a strategy for\u003cbr\u003edefeating Adolf Hitler. Over three days in Tehran, Iran, this trio—strange\u003cbr\u003ebedfellows united by their mutual responsibility as heads of the Allied\u003cbr\u003epowers—made essential decisions that would direct the final years of the war\u003cbr\u003eand its aftermath. Meanwhile, looming over the covert meeting was the possible\u003cbr\u003ethreat of a Nazi assassination plot, code-named Operation Long Jump. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore they left Tehran, the three leaders agreed to open a\u003cbr\u003esecond front in the West, spearheaded by Operation Overload and the D-Day\u003cbr\u003einvasion of France at Normandy the following June. They also discussed what\u003cbr\u003emight come after the war, including dividing Germany and establishing the\u003cbr\u003eUnited Nations—plans that laid the groundwork for the postwar world order and\u003cbr\u003ethe Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBestselling author and Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier’s new epic history, \u003cem\u003eThree Days at the Brink,\u003c\/em\u003e centers on these\u003cbr\u003ecrucial days in Tehran, the medieval Persian city on the edge of the desert.\u003cbr\u003eBaier makes clear the importance of Roosevelt, who stood apart as the sole\u003cbr\u003eleader of a democracy, recognizing him as the lead strategist for the globe’s\u003cbr\u003efuture—the one man who could ultimately allow or deny the others their place in\u003cbr\u003ehistory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith new details discovered in rarely seen transcripts, oral\u003cbr\u003ehistories, and declassified State Department and presidential documents from\u003cbr\u003ethe Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Baier illuminates the complex character of\u003cbr\u003eRoosevelt, revealing a man who grew into his role and accepted the greatest\u003cbr\u003echallenge any American president since Lincoln had faced.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“In this brisk, readable and compelling book, Bret Baier takes us into a crucial period of World War II and calls our attention to an important hinge of world history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMICHAEL BESCHLOSS, New York Times bestselling author of Presidents of War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] fascinating narrative that doubles as a political portrait of FDR and a history of the momentous Tehran conference at which FDR reached agreement with Churchill and Stalin on grand strategy against Germany…\u003cem\u003eThree Days at the Brink\u003c\/em\u003e—along with Baier’s books on Eisenhower and Reagan—will be widely read and discussed, and prove to be must reading for everyone interested in political biography, history, World War II, postwar history, and in public affairs today.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—DAVID EISENHOWER, Director, the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Public Service, and author of Eisenhower: At War, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Important. ... [Baier has] the writer's gift of narrative, and the reporter's attention to factual detail. ... A well-told, highly readable, and accurate account of the involvement of our nation in one of those crucial moments that determine the course of world history.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Highly readable. ... Dramatic. ... Compelling.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In his monumental new book about one of history’s most epic events, Bret Baier has outdone himself yet again. I could not put this extraordinary book down. \u003cem\u003eThree Days at the Brink\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterpiece: elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and impeccably researched. This book not only sparkles but is destined to be a classic!” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJAY WINIK, New York Times bestselling author of 1944 and April 1865\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bret Baier’s \u003cem\u003eThree Days at the Brink\u003c\/em\u003e is a riveting reevaluation of how the Big Three leaders FDR, Churchill, and Stalin collaborated to win World War II for the Allies and then created a Cold War superpower global order. With characteristic intellectual verve and brilliant analysis, Baier allows readers to freshly understand how the Tehran Conference shaped world history. Essential reading by a first-rate storyteller!” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDOUGLAS BRINKLEY, professor of history at Rice University and author of American Moonshot and Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Riveting. With characteristic intellectual verve and brilliant analysis, Bret Baier allows readers to freshly understand how the Tehran Conference shaped world history. Essential reading by a first-rate storyteller!” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDOUGLAS BRINKLEY, professor of history at Rice Unviersity and author of American Moonshot and Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fascinating story, dramatically written. … Baier recreates [the Tehran Conference] vividly.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In the past three years, Bret Baier, perhaps America’s top newscaster, has become one of America’s best historians as well. \u003cem\u003eThree Days at the Brink\u003c\/em\u003e is a fascinating narrative that doubles as a political portrait of FDR and a history of the momentous Tehran conference. Must reading.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDAVID EISENHOWER, Director, the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Public Service, and author of Eisenhower: At War, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An exciting, moment by moment account of the Tehran Conference and its aftermath. Well-researched and highly readable.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSELWA \"LUCKY\" ROOSEVELT, former Chief of Protocol for the Reagan Administration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bret Baier’s \u003cem\u003eThree Days at the Brink\u003c\/em\u003e gives us an exciting, moment by moment account of the Tehran Conference and its aftermath. Much of this well-researched and highly readable book is devoted to FDR and his leadership role in the three-day historic meeting, where he persuaded Stalin and a reluctant Churchill to agree to the daring strategy he advocated—i.e. the cross-channel invasion of Europe which ultimately defeated Hitler and won the Second World War.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSELWA “LUCKY” ROOSEVELT, former Chief of Protocol for the Reagan Administration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fascinating and intriguing. \u003cem\u003eThree Days at the Brink\u003c\/em\u003e is a compelling account of FDR’s political life and career. This book, along with Bret Baier’s two prior works, distinguishes him as not only a renowned journalist but a superb storyteller and historian.  Americans can learn much from Bret Baier and his latest gem.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMARK R. 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