{"product_id":"the-eleventh-hour-9781118269862","title":"The Eleventh Hour","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eIn 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\n\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"L. Douglas Keeney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48300549112059,"sku":"9781118269862","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_021fd65d-dec7-454d-8594-1ad2bfa5e8ed.jpg?v=1771950322","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-eleventh-hour-9781118269862","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}