Spies in the Vatican
«A must read for anyone interested in the inside workings of the Vatican in modern times. J. MICHAEL PHAYER, AUTHOR OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE HOLOCAUST, 1930-1945 ""People have long contended that the Vatican possesses the world's best intelligence network. But is it so? Intelligence historian David Alvarez here probes this myth with impeccable scholarship, exceptional insight, and great literary vigor. An outstanding book."" DAVID KAHN, AUTHOR OF HITLER'S SPIES AND THE CODEBREAKERS ""In a grand tour of intrigue in and by the Vatican, David Alvarez quickly disabuses the reader of the notion that the Papal leadership and the Catholic hierarchy were focused solely on the spiritual world."" WARREN F. KIMBALL, AUTHOR OF FORGED IN WAR: ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL, AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR»
Revered by millions, the Papacy is an international power that many nations have viewed with suspicion, some have tried to control, and not a few have spied upon. Ranging across two centuries of world history, this study seeks to throw open the Vatican's doors to reveal the startling but little-known world of espionage in a sacred place. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University Press of Kansas
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780700612147
- Utgivelsesår
- 2002
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«A must read for anyone interested in the inside workings of the Vatican in modern times. J. MICHAEL PHAYER, AUTHOR OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE HOLOCAUST, 1930-1945 ""People have long contended that the Vatican possesses the world's best intelligence network. But is it so? Intelligence historian David Alvarez here probes this myth with impeccable scholarship, exceptional insight, and great literary vigor. An outstanding book."" DAVID KAHN, AUTHOR OF HITLER'S SPIES AND THE CODEBREAKERS ""In a grand tour of intrigue in and by the Vatican, David Alvarez quickly disabuses the reader of the notion that the Papal leadership and the Catholic hierarchy were focused solely on the spiritual world."" WARREN F. KIMBALL, AUTHOR OF FORGED IN WAR: ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL, AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR»