Hitler's Pope
The Secret History of Pius XII
$52.03
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
25 October 2000
Summary
A firm and final indictment of Pope Pius XII’s scandalous wartime silence and its consequences.
Backed by a wealth of new research, John Cornwell tells for the first time the story of the World War II career of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who was Pope Pius XII, arguably the most dangerous churchman in modern history. In the first decade of the century, as a brilliant young Vatican lawyer, Pacelli helped shape a new ideology of unprecedented papal power in Germany. In 1933 Hitler became h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140266818 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014026681X |
| Author: | John Cornwell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 25 October 2000 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 35mm |
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About The Author
John Cornwell
John Cornwell is an award-winning journalist and author. His Hitler’s Pope- The Secret History of Pius XII was a world bestseller. He has written on scientific issues for a number of periodicals, including New Scientist and the Sunday Times Magazine. His book of the 1995 Prozac trial, Power to Harm- Mind, Murder and Drugs on Trial, was widely acclaimed, and he is the editor of a trilogy of science books- Nature’s Imagination, Consciousness and Human Identity and Explanations. He is Director of the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge, and a member of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University.
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