Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill Fdr, Churchill

<p><strong>"A truly thrilling expose of the previously unknown Nazi assassination plot that could have changed history." -- Edward Jay Epstein, <em>New York Times b</em>estselling author of <em>The Assassination Chronicles</em></strong><strong><br/></strong></p><p><strong>The <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author returns with a tale as riveting and suspenseful as any thriller: the true story of the Nazi plot to kill the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. during World War II.</strong><br/><br/>The mission: to kill the three most important and heavily guarded men in the world.<br/>The assassins: a specially trained team headed by the killer known as The Most Dangerous Man in Europe.<br/>The stakes: nothing less than the future of the Western world.</p><p>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.</p><p>Immediately, a highly trained, hand-picked team of Nazi commandos is assembled, trained, armed with special weapons, and parachuted into Iran. They have s