BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler

    (By Mark Riebling)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 25 MB (25,084 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 640 times
    Last checked 12 Hour ago!
    Author Mark Riebling
    “Book Descriptions: Pope Pius XII is perhaps the most detested pope in modern history, vilified for allegedly appeasing Hitler and betraying the Jewish people by remaining silent during the Holocaust. But this conventional narrative is not the full story.

    In Church of Spies, the intelligence expert Mark Riebling draws on a wealth of recently uncovered documents to argue that, far from being Hitler’s lackey, Pius was an active anti-Nazi spymaster. He directed a vast network of Vatican operatives—priests and laypeople alike—who partnered with the German resistance, tipped the Allies off to Hitler’s invasions of France and Russia, and involved themselves in three separate plots to assassinate Hitler.

    A fast-paced and gripping tale of secrecy, danger, and self-sacrifice, Church of Spies takes readers from hidden crypts beneath the Vatican to Nazi bunkers in Germany to chart the true legacy of Pius’s secret war. Although these revelations do not excuse Pius’s public silence during the war, they provide us with a deeper understanding of the man reviled by so many.

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

    ★★★★★

    Mike Duncan

    Book 1

    Into the Breach: An Apostolic Exhortation

    ★★★★★

    Thomas J. Olmsted

    Book 1

    Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds

    ★★★★★

    Michael J. Knowles

    Book 1

    The Traitor's Wife

    ★★★★★

    Allison Pataki

    Book 1

    The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler

    ★★★★★

    David I. Kertzer

    Book 1

    Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

    ★★★★★

    Candice Millard

    Book 1

    Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

    ★★★★★

    Annie Jacobsen

    Book 1

    Paul: A Biography

    ★★★★★

    N.T. Wright

    Book 1

    Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives

    ★★★★★

    Pope Benedict XVI

    Book 1

    The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World

    ★★★★★

    Andy Crouch

    Book 1

    The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

    ★★★★★

    Michael Malice

    Book 1

    The Spymistress

    ★★★★★

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    Book 1

    Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France

    ★★★★★

    James Holland

    Book 1

    Demonic Foes: My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks, and the Paranormal

    ★★★★★

    Richard Gallagher

    Book 1

    Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West (Frontier Lawmen)

    ★★★★★

    Tom Clavin