Hitler's pope : the secret history of Pius XII
/ John Cornwell
- First edition
- New York, N.Y. : Viking , c1999.
- xii, 430 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-417) and index.
-- The previously untold story of the man who was arguable the most dangerous churchman in modern history, Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII, Pontiff from 1939 to 1958 and long controversial as the Pope who failed to speak out against Hitlerīs Final Solution. This is the full story of how Pacelli in fact prompted events in the 1920s and 1930s that helped sweep the Nazis to unhindered power.