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There has always been a lot of discussion in the field of counter-factual history. That is, asking the “What if” questions and then trying to guesstimate what might have been. Howard Blum shares an adventure that might have triggered a whole bunch of “What if” questions, except his story is factual history.
Imagine if the Nazis would have assassinated Winston Churchill? Or if the Axis powers had been able to take out Franklin D. Roosevelt or Joseph Stalin? Or, even more frightening, what if they were able to target and eliminate all of the leaders of the Allied nations? Shockingly, this was almost a reality, as Howard Blum relates in his book Night of the Assassins.
This book is primarily told from the perspective of the Nazi spymaster who was trying to pull off “Operation Long Jump” and the head of FDR’s Secret Service detail that was trying to keep the US president out of harm’s way. This true story is full of the twists and turns of leaked plans, lucky guesses, unexpected double agents, good luck, bad luck, and blind luck. Even though I already knew that the Big Three weren’t assassinated by a highly trained Nazi commando squad, I was still on the edge of my seat to see how Blum’s account would play out.
Students of history and aficionados of detective stories will both thoroughly enjoy this book!
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Craig T. Owens 