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
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