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Title:
Church of spies : the Pope's secret war against Hitler
Author:
Riebling, Mark.
ISBN:
9780465022298
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Publication Information:
New York :

Basic Books,

[2015?]

©2015
Physical Description:
viii, 375 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Darkness over the earth -- The end of Germany -- Joey Ox -- Tyrannicide -- Someone to kill him -- Luck of the devil -- The black chapel -- Absolute secrecy -- The x-report -- Warnings to the west -- The brown birds -- Forging the iron -- The committee -- Conversations in the crypt -- Shootout in the cathedral -- two bottles of cognac -- The Siegfried blueprints -- The white knight -- Prisoner of the Vatican --It must happen -- Holy Germany -- The trove -- Hell -- The gallows -- A dead man-- The emerald lake.
Abstract:
In this stunning revision of the role of "Hitler's Pope" in WWII, one of our top intelligence experts recasts Pius XII--allegedly a Nazi sympathizer--as an anti-Nazi spymaster.
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