FIVE PAST MIDNIGHT By James Thayer Towards the end of WWII, Theodore Roosevelt was having a meeting on how he could end the war. Director of the Office of Strategic Services (William Donovan) was summing up the war in 3 sentences. First, each and every day the war continued in Europe, 27,000 men, women & children would die. Second, a group of German officers were ready to assume leadership of the Third Reich if an opportunity would arise, …showed first 75 words of 1006 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1006 total…Hitler committed suicide. Theme statement. The main idea of this book is to help end WWII by kill Hitler It is like finding a needle in the hay stack This is like entering an unknown country It is like killing the leader Milosevic in Kosovo. For example, Milosevic was just like Hitler because he was power hungry. Another example is when we sent an assassin to kill Hitler but didn’t know where he was.