{"product_id":"9781630269319","title":"The Eleventh Hour: How Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the U.S. Brokered the Unlikely Deal that Won the War","description":"In late November 1943, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Joint Chiefs of Staff secretly boarded the battleship USS Iowa to attend a conference in Tehran with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, where the Allies would come to an agreement on a war plan to defeat Germany. Although Roosevelt’s preparation at sea established the groundwork for the American position on D-Day, it was in the heated and electrifying debates that followed in Tehran—and only through those intense debates—that a deal was ultimately struck.\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Eleventh Hour\u003c\/i\u003e, critically acclaimed author L. Douglas Keeney explores FDR’s covert conferences on the battleship and provides stunning insight into the formerly secret, behind-the-scenes transcripts from the meetings in Tehran. Brilliantly chronicling the three days of aggressive debates between the heads-of-state, Keeney demonstrates that Tehran, although remembered as a diplomatic conference with a well-known outcome, was in reality chaotic, conflicted, and subject to numerous heated, closed-door sessions—with a petulant, irritable Churchill; a strikingly reserved, detached Roosevelt; and an assertive but unexpectedly diplomatic and even charming Stalin, winning over his guest, President Roosevelt, whose quarters were bugged by the Soviets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeamlessly stitching together the private papers, diaries, meeting notes, and letters home of those on board, \u003ci\u003eThe Eleventh Hour\u003c\/i\u003e narrates declassified transcripts, exposes surprising secrets, and illuminates how the debates of three men would ultimately end WWII.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Turner Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134755389680,"sku":"9781630269319","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781630269319_p0.jpg?v=1763670208","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781630269319","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}