Operation Long Jump : Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Greatest Assassination Plot in History

In the middle of World War II, Nazi military intelligence discovered a seemingly easy way to win the war for Adolf Hitler. The three heads of the Allied forces—Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin—were planning to meet in Tehran in October, 1943. Under Hitler's personal direction, the Nazis launched “Operation Long Jump," an intricate plan to track the Allied leaders in Tehran and assassinate all three men at the same time. “I suppose it would make a pretty good haul if they could get all three of us," Roosevelt later said. Historian Bill Yenne retells the incredible, globe-spanning story of the most ambitious assassination plot ever thwarted in __Operation Long Jump__. Had it succeeded, it would have been the most shocking and audacious assassination in history, killing the three most powerful leaders in the world: Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill. The complex conspiracy was approved by Adolf Hitler himself--and yet, until now, the story was hidden behind fading memories, walls of secrecy, and shadowy archives. Veteran military historian Bill Yenne has dug deeper than anyone else into the mystery of Operation Long Jump and presents here the extraordinary story of an assassination plot that combined elements of the Nazi regime's elite commando and intelligence units, including the SS, with amateurish bungling that could have come straight out of the Keystone Cops. In Operation Long Jump you'll discover: Why Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, approved the plan; the role of Nazi commando Otto Skorzeny, "the most dangerous man in Europe," in the plot; the unsuspected spy in the British embassy who became immortalized in the film 5 Fingers, though without any mention of his role in Operation Long Jump; the American agent who almost failed to stop the plot because of his desire to make the arrest himself and impress a girl; the mysterious Swiss double agent who accidentally became the man who knew everything--and foiled the plot; what might have happened had the Nazi attempt succeeded. One of the last mysterious, nearly untold stories of World War II, Operation Long Jump makes for compelling reading. -- Inside jacket flaps In the middle of World War II, Nazi military intelligence discovered a seemingly easy way to win the war for Adolf Hitler. The three heads of the Allied forces—Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin—were planning to meet in Tehran in October, 1943. Under Hitler's personal direction, the Nazis launched “Operation Long Jump," an intricate plan to track the Allied leaders in Tehran and assassinate all three men at the same time. “I suppose it would make a pretty good haul if they could get all three of us," Roosevelt later said. Historian Bill Yenne retells the incredible, globe-spanning story of the most ambitious assassination plot ever thwarted in Operation Long Jump .