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THE POPE AT WAR
The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
The Pope at War is the first book to make use of the newly opened Vatican archives and the first book to tell the full, true story of Pope Pius XII's relationships with the Italian Fascist and German Nazi regimes.
The Pope at War tells the dramatic story of the controversial Pope Pius XII and his relations with Italy's dictator, Benito Mussolini, and Germany's Führer, Adolf Hitler, during the Second World War. Vilified by some as "Hitler's Pope" for his refusal to publicly protest the Nazis' mass murder of Europe's Jews in the Holocaust, Pius XII is portrayed as having been a heroic opponent of Fascism and Nazism by the many Catholics who are campaigning to have him declared a saint.
For half a century scholars and Jewish organizations pressured the Vatican to open its archives for the war years to help resolve the controversy. Finally, in March 2020 the archives were opened, triggering huge international media interest. The Pope at War will be the first book published anywhere in the world to take advantage of thousands of documents from these newly opened archives to tell a previously unknown and at many points shocking history. It is filled with new revelations about what went on behind the scenes at the Vatican during the war and about the pope's secret relations with both Hitler and Mussolini. Yet while rooted in unmatched scholarly archival research, The Pope at War is written in an enticing and accessible way that draws the general reader into the events as they were happening.
David I. Kertzer is the Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science and professor of anthropology and Italian studies at Brown University, where he served as provost from 2006 to 2011. He is the author of twelve books, including The Pope and Mussolini, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the American Historical Association prize for best book on Italian history, and The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, a finalist for the National Book Award in 1997. He has twice been awarded the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies for the best book on Italian history and in 2005 was elected to membership in the American Association of Arts and Sciences.
For half a century scholars and Jewish organizations pressured the Vatican to open its archives for the war years to help resolve the controversy. Finally, in March 2020 the archives were opened, triggering huge international media interest. The Pope at War will be the first book published anywhere in the world to take advantage of thousands of documents from these newly opened archives to tell a previously unknown and at many points shocking history. It is filled with new revelations about what went on behind the scenes at the Vatican during the war and about the pope's secret relations with both Hitler and Mussolini. Yet while rooted in unmatched scholarly archival research, The Pope at War is written in an enticing and accessible way that draws the general reader into the events as they were happening.
David I. Kertzer is the Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science and professor of anthropology and Italian studies at Brown University, where he served as provost from 2006 to 2011. He is the author of twelve books, including The Pope and Mussolini, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the American Historical Association prize for best book on Italian history, and The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, a finalist for the National Book Award in 1997. He has twice been awarded the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies for the best book on Italian history and in 2005 was elected to membership in the American Association of Arts and Sciences.
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Published 2022-06-01 by Random House |