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100 1  Keeney, L. Douglas. 
245 14 The eleventh hour :|bhow Great Britain, the Soviet Union, 
       and the U.S. brokered the unlikely deal that won the war /
       |cL. Douglas Keeney. 
264  1 New York, New York :|bTurner,|c2015. 
300    xxi, 326 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-312) and 
       index. 
505 0  Foreword -- Winter 1943 -- The Iowa -- Leaving Plymouth --
       It can be done -- Baku -- The Joint Chiefs of Staff -- 
       Torpedo -- Strong points -- Rankin -- Somebody knew 
       something -- Option A -- Dismembering Germany -- Tunis -- 
       The psychological moment -- The British rebellion -- 
       Thanksgiving -- Walking home -- Cairo to Tehran -- Meeting
       Uncle Joe -- Dinner -- Stalin's hour -- The afternoon -- 
       The dinner -- The British capitulation -- Dividing the 
       spoils -- Statesman -- The Supreme Allied Commander -- 
       Epilogue. 
520 2  "In 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. In The Eleventh Hour, 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. Seamlessly stitching 
       together the private papers, diaries, meeting notes, and 
       letters home of those on board, The Eleventh Hour narrates
       declassified transcripts, exposes surprising secrets, and 
       illuminates how the debates of three men would ultimately 
       end WWII"--From publisher. 
600 10 Roosevelt, Franklin D.|q(Franklin Delano),|d1882-1945. 
600 10 Churchill, Winston,|d1874-1965. 
600 10 Stalin, Joseph,|d1878-1953. 
611 20 Teheran Conference|d(1943 :|cTehran, Iran) 
610 20 Iowa (Battleship) 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xDiplomatic history. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xDiplomatic history|vSources. 
650  0 Meetings|zIran|zTehran|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|zIran|zTehran. 
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