Summary of Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch's The Nazi Conspiracy

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Get the Summary of Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch's The Nazi Conspiracy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 1943, as the war against Nazi Germany raged abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt had a critical goal: a face-to-face sit-down with his allies Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. This first-ever meeting of the Big Three in Tehran, Iran, would decide some of the most crucial strategic details of the war. Yet when the Nazis found out about the meeting, their own secret plan took shape―an assassination plot that would’ve changed history.

A true story filled with daring rescues, body doubles, and political intrigue, The Nazi Conspiracy details FDR’s pivotal meeting in Tehran and the deadly Nazi plot against the heads of state of the three major Allied powers who attended it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 3, 2023
• ISBN: 9798350063677

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Summary of Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch’s The Nazi Conspiracy

Contents

Overview

Pearl Harbor

The US Joins the War

Britain’s Battles

The Global Stage

The Nazi Spy

A Call for Unconditional Surrender

Betrayal

A Rift in the Partnership

Nazi Missions in Iran

Secret Meetings

Troubles in the Alliance

Turning Points

Hunting Nazis

Code Name: Eureka

The Nazi Preparations

Intelligence Breakthroughs

Trouble in Tehran

The Summit

Disaster Averted

Operation Overlord

The Aftermath

The Last Conference

About the Authors

Overview

During World War II, Nazi Germany attempted one of the most ambitious assassination plots in history. In The Nazi Conspiracy (2023), Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch give us the inside story of the failed plot to kill Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin at a summit in Tehran in 1943. It is a thrilling account of how the operation was foiled by a combination of intelligence coups, military strategy, and luck, and a testament to the bravery and resourcefulness of those who fought against the Nazis.

Pearl Harbor

On December 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The base was unprepared, and the results were catastrophic. The entire base was an inferno. Two battleships sank completely, and several other battleships, destroyers, and cruisers were obliterated. According to early reports, more than 2,000 Americans were dead, and another 1,000 were seriously wounded.

Aside from the horrors of the attack itself, the global consequences were momentous. Japan was allied with Nazi Germany and Italy, nations that were fighting the British in a war that had swept Europe. Japan had just altered the global balance of power.

The US had tried very