This is the John Fuell-Sang Podcast.

2023 marks the 80-year anniversary of one of President Franklin Roosevelt's greatest goals,

his first ever face-to-face sit-down with his Allied partners Churchill and Stalin.

You've seen the photos in the history books,

but did you know the Nazis found out

that the leaders of the allies were trying to meet in person

in Iran, and by a random stroke of luck,

they had a chance to send

assassins to kill all three leaders.

But the Allies orchestrated a very intricate plot

to try to keep the location and the three leaders safe. But the communications between the Nazis, their

intelligence, the plot almost worked. And it's a story of heroic Russian spies.

Nazis gathering in Madison Square Garden, Franklin Roosevelt hiding in the back seat of a dirty sedan through the streets of Tay Ron while his body double comfortably rode in the presidential limo, it's a page-turner and it's told by one of our greatest storytellers.

Mr. Brad Melzer is the number one New York Times best-selling author of The Lightning

Rod, The Escape Artist, many other best-selling thrillers, as well as the

ordinary people change the world series that my son loves and we always

look for Brad's picture in all of the books. He's the host of History Channel's

Brad Meltser's Decoded and Brad Meltser's Lost History, which he used to help find the missing 9-11 flag the firefighters

raised at Ground Zero in New York City.

Along with his collaborator, Josh Mench, he has brought us the new book, The Nazi Conspiracy, The Secret Plot,

To Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill. Our friend Ken Burns calls it ripening, told

with confidence and mastery, a page-turner.

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