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Spies in the Vatican: Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust (Modern War Studies (Hardcover))
David Alvarez
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Description for Spies in the Vatican: Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust (Modern War Studies (Hardcover))
Hardcover. The Papacy is an international power that many nations have viewed with suspicion, 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. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1DSV; 3JH; 3JJ; HBT; HRCC7; HRCX8; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 689.
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. Reviewing the Pontificates of ten popes - from Pius VII, Napoleon's nemesis, to Pius XII, maligned by some as ""Hitler's pope"" - David Alvarez provides a history of the intelligence operations and covert activities that reached the highest levels of the Vatican. Populated ... Read more
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. Reviewing the Pontificates of ten popes - from Pius VII, Napoleon's nemesis, to Pius XII, maligned by some as ""Hitler's pope"" - David Alvarez provides a history of the intelligence operations and covert activities that reached the highest levels of the Vatican. Populated ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700612147
SKU
V9780700612147
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About David Alvarez
David Alvarez is a professor of politics at Saint Mary's College of California. He is the author of Secret Messages: Codebreaking and American Diplomacy, 1930-1945, also from Kansas, and coauthor, with Robert Graham, S.J., of Nothing Sacred: Nazi Espionage against the Vatican, 1939-1945.
Reviews for Spies in the Vatican: Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust (Modern War Studies (Hardcover))
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 ... Read more