内容简介
AconspiracywithintheVatican—tostopanoutspokenPopeIn1938,PopePiusXIwastheworld'smostprominentcriticoftheNaziParty.Tomakehisvoiceheard,PiuscalleduponanAmericanJesuit,JohnLaFarge,towriteapapalencyclical—theVatican'sstrongestdecree—publiclycondemningHitler'smurderouscampaign.ButconservativemembersintheVaticanlikeCardinal/x7fEugenioPacellitoiledinsecrettosuppressthedocumentfromappearing.Pacelli,whowouldbecomePopePiusXII,colludedwith/x7fotherstokeepthefinishedencyclicalfromreachingtheincreasingly-illPope.PeterEisner,award-winningreporterandauthorofthecriticallyacclaimedTheFreedomLine,reportsshockingnewevidence(releasedonlyrecentlyfromVaticanarchives)ofthisdeceit.Anastonishingtaleofintrigueandsedition,ThePope'sLastCrusadeisacompellingjourneyintotheheartoftheVatican.Atrulyessentialwork,itbringsnewlighttooneofthemostcriticaljuncturesinmodernhistory.
作者简介
PeterEisnerisaveteranauthor,historianandjournalist,havingworkedasforeigneditoratNewsdayinNewYorkandasdeputyforeigneditorandcorrespondentfortheWashingtonPost.HereceivedthenationalChristophersAwardin2005forhisbook,THEFREEDOMLINE,thestoryofagroupofyoungpeoplewhorescuedAlliedpilotsinWorldWarTwo.HeisalsotheauthorofDEATHBEAT(withMariaJimenaDuzan)aboutColumbiandrugewarswaspublishedbyHarperCollinsin1994,andAMERICA’SPRISONER(withManuelNoriega)