Three Days at the Brink Pdf

ISBN: B07NPWYKXF
Title: Three Days at the Brink Pdf FDR

From the number-one best-selling author of Three Days in Moscow and anchor of Fox News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier, a gripping history of the secret meeting 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, including the D-Day invasion. 

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. 

Before they 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. They also discussed what might come after the war, including dividing Germany and establishing the United Nations - plans that laid the groundwork for the postwar world order and the Cold War. 

Bret Baier's new epic history Three Days at the Brink centers on these crucial days in Tehran, the medieval Persian city on the edge of the desert. Baier makes clear the importance of Roosevelt, who stood apart as the sole leader of a democracy, recognizing him as the lead strategist for the globe's future - the one man who could ultimately allow or deny the others their place in history. With new details found in rarely seen transcripts, oral histories, and declassified State Department and presidential documents from the FDR Library, Baier illuminates the complex character of Roosevelt, revealing a man who grew into his role and accepted the greatest calling of the last century. 

Weaving a fresh 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 War II, Baier has produced the biggest book yet in his acclaimed Three Days series.

Frank John Wilson's role in protecting FDR. I think Bret Baier is one of the 'GOOD GUYS', in all respects. He is the Fair and Balanced gold standard. Having said that, I would have rated his book a 5+++ if it wasn't missing one essential piece, John Frank Wilson. Wilson was the Chief of the Secret Service ("SS") from December 1936 through 1946. Prior to the SS, Frank had worked with Herbert Hoover during WW 1 as a Special Agent (Investigator) for the Food Administration. With the end of WW 1 and the start of the Roarin'20s', Wilson joined the Special Intelligence Unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (since 1978 IRS- Criminal Investigation ("IRS-CI")). He was PIVOTAL in cleaning up corruption in the Prohibition Agency from 1920 - 1927; and after the Manly Sullivan Supreme Court Decision (1927- ill gotten gains were taxable), he fought the fight (Tax Evasion) against the Criminal Elite and other tax dodgers. He, along with some other peers, coined the modern day phrase Follow the Money and as a group were the first Fathers of Forensic Accounting. He and some of his peers (including my Great Uncle, Michael Francis Malone) took down Capone, solved the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and that was just for starters!. While head of the SS, he created the Know Your Money campaign to thwart Hitler's attempt to infuse counterfeit (as Hitler did in England) to undermine our economy. He also established presidential protection protocols that are still used today. This latter was essential for the safe care of FDR. I KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS TRIP SINCE I HAVE MANY, MANY DOCUMENTS FROM THE WILSON ARCHIVES. I'm talking the original Treasury Department AND SS documents as well as field notes by the agents. These documents would add 'flavor' to Baier's story-telling. It would also recognize this Band of Brothers (IRS-CI) from then to now- from Capone to Usama and along the way- Agnew, the Cartels, Terrorism, Varsity Blues and even Avenatti. MY DOCUMENTS ALSO GIVE CREDENCE TO THE MAJOR ROLES WILSON PLAYED IN SECURING AMERICA'S DESTINY FROM WW1 THROUGH THE EARLY 1950s. I also mention Wilson's "Chief", Elmer Lincoln Irey. Irey led the IRS-Intelligence Unit from its formation in 1919 thru the mid 1940s; and in 1939, FDR and Monengthau (Secretary of Treasury) charged Irey with also being Chief of the SS, Customs, Coast Guard and with what is now DEA and ATF. Thus it was IREY and WILSON who set the presidential protection FDR needed. I would think both would be mentioned in Baier's story-telling!1941 was the decisive year It's a real stretch to say that WW2 was not decided until December 1943, at the Tehran Conference. By that time, Germany had lost the 6th Army at Stalingrad, about 600,000 troops, and in July 1943 it lost the Battle of Kursk, the biggest tank battle of all time. From the end of Kursk onward, the German army was in nearly constant retreat. Most of its elite fighting troops were dead on the battlefield. North Africa, albeit little more than a colorful sideshow, was lost, and the US and Commonwealth troops had advanced into Italy. Andrew Nagorski, acclaimed author of several books on WW2, states rather convincingly that 1941 was the decisive year. When Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, failed to take Moscow - dooming the Wehrmacht to a protracted war on the eastern front - and when the U.S. entered the war, Germany had bitten off more, much more, than it could chew. German soldiers in Russia behaved as brutal conquerors, not liberators. Germany was a continental powerhouse. The U.S. and the Soviet Union were on a considerably higher level.Well written. I have not completed reading this book yet. However I would like to say it reads more like a biography of President FDR for the first one hundred and some pages. It has provided me with information that I never knew about FDR.

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