Three Days at the Brink: FDR’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II Audiobook (Free)

In the #1 bestselling author of Three Days in Moscow and anchor of Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier, a gripping history of the secret conference that set the stage for victory in World War II-the now-forgotten 1943 Tehran Conference, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin plotted the war’s endgame, like the D-Day invasion.

November 1943: World Battle II teetered in the balance. The Nazis controlled nearly all of the Western continent. Japan around three Days in the Brink: FDR’s Daring Gamble to Gain World War II dominated the Pacific. Allied successes at Sicily and Guadalcanal had gained modest surface but at a fantastic cost. On the Eastern Front side, the Soviets had already lost millions of lives.

That same month in Tehran, with the fate of the world involved, the ‘Big Three’-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin-secretly met for the very first time to graph a technique for defeating Hitler. More than three times, this trio-strange bedfellows united by their shared responsibility as mind from the Allied powers-made essential decisions that would direct the ultimate years of the war and its aftermath. On the other hand, looming within the covert conference was the feasible threat of a Nazi assassination plot nicknamed ‘Procedure Long Jump,’ heightening the currently dramatic stakes.

Before they still left Tehran, the three leaders agreed to open a second front in the West, spearheaded by an invasion of France at Normandy the following June. In addition they talked about what might arrive after the battle, including dividing Germany and creating the United Nations-plans that laid the groundwork for the postwar world order and the Cold War.

Bret Baier’s fresh epic history Three Days at the Brink centers around these crucial days in Tehran, the middle ages Persian city around the edge from the desert. Baier makes clear the need for Roosevelt, who stood apart as the only real leader of a democracy, realizing him as the lead strategist for the globe’s future-the one guy who could eventually allow or deny others their place ever sold. With new details found in hardly ever seen transcripts, oral histories, and declassified State Department and presidential docs in the FDR Library, Baier illuminates the complex personality of Roosevelt, uncovering a guy who grew into his part and accepted the best calling of the last century.

Weaving a brand new narrative of FDR’s rise as a war president and his world-altering relationships with Churchill and Stalin during the decisive turning point in World Battle II, Baier has produced the biggest book yet in his acclaimed Three Days series.