FEED DROP: Booknotes+: Howard Blum, "Night of the Assassins"

Lectures in History

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🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In 1943, in the middle of World War II, the Allied leaders FDR, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin were planning to meet secretly in Tehran. The Nazis wanted to kill them. In his book "Night of the Assassins," author Howard Blum tells the story of "Operation Long Jump," the code name for the Nazi plan to assassinate the Allied leaders. In telling this story, author Blum says: "I wanted to write a suspenseful character-driven story of men, heroes, and villains caught up in a tense, desperate time, who needed to find courage and cunning to do their duty for their countries and to fulfill their own sense of honor." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Shannon, the podcast producer here at C-SPAN.
0:06.6	The Lectures and History program is on a break this week,
0:09.0	so I wanted to share a great episode from another one of our programs, Book Notes Plus.
0:13.6	Hosted by Brian Lamb, this episode features author Howard Bloom discussing his book, Night of the Assassins.
0:19.8	Book Notes Plus starts right after this.
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0:58.1	In the book, Night of the Assassins. Author Howard Bloom tells a story of Hitler's
1:02.8	1943 effort to assassinate three world leaders,
1:08.0	FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill. In the middle of World War II, these men were
1:15.8	planning to meet secretly in Tehran. The Nazis wanted to kill them. Connecticut-based
1:23.7	writer Howard Bloom says his initial idea was to tell the tale of Operation Long Jump.
1:31.3	In his note in the back on sources, he writes, I wanted to write a suspenseful character-driven
1:38.4	story of men, heroes, and villains caught up in a tense, desperate time who needed to find courage and cunning to do their duty for their countries and to fulfill their own sense of honor.
1:56.0	Howard Bloom, where did you grow up?
1:58.0	I grew up in the Bronx, a place called Riverdale. It's the North Bronx, a little community just by the Hudson River.
2:05.6	When did you learn how to write?
2:08.6	I don't know if you ever learn how to write.
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