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Drawing on untapped resources, exclusive interviews, and new archival research, The Popes Last Crusade by Peter Eisner is a thrilling narrative that sheds new light on Pope Pius XIs valiant effort to condemn Nazism and the policies of the Third Reicha crusade that might have changed the course of World War II.A shocking tale of intrigue and suspense, illustrated with sixteen pages of archival photos, The Popes Last Crusade How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XIs Campaign to Stop Hitler illuminates this religious leaders daring yet little-known campaign, a spiritual and political battle that would be derailed by Piuss XIs death just a few months later. Peter Eisner reveals how Pius XI intended to unequivocally reject Nazism in one of the most unprecedented and progressive pronouncements ever issued by the Vatican, and how a group of conservative churchmen plotted to prevent it.
About the Author
PETER EISNER, an award-winning foreign correspondent, has been an editor and reporter at the Washington Post, Newsday and the Associated Press. Eisner was correspondent and consulting producer at the PBS programs Newshour Weekend and World Focus and was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award in 2010.
His latest book, MacArthur's Spies, is a thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception set in the exotic landscape of occupied Manila during World War II.
PRAISE FOR MACARTHUR'S SPIES
"Peter Eisner does a masterful job of telling a colorful, largely unknown story. A sultry nightclub owner in Manila and a businessman who used his cover as a Central American consul to spy on the Japanese are just two members of a fabulous cast of characters that could have come straight from a Graham Greene novel." -Lynne Olson, author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island.
"MacArthur's Spies reads like Casablanca set in the Pacific, filled with brave and daring characters caught up in the intrigue of war - and the best part is that it's all true! This is a spy story about Claire Phillips, a remarkable woman who, through her own cunning and considerable charm with the men in her life, manages to survive - a triumph of the human spirit." - Thomas Maier, author of Masters of Sex and When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys.
Eisner's previous books include:
THE POPE'S LAST CRUSADE, the story of the lesser-known Pope Pius XI, who served before World War Two and engaged an American Jesuit journalist to help him oppose Hitler, Mussolini and anti-Semitism. The book was a History Book Club and Catholic Book Club monthly selection.
THE FREEDOM LINE, a page-turning story that traces the life of Robert Grimes, a 20-year-old American B-17 pilot whose plane was shot down over Belgium on Oct. 20, 1943. Freedom Line won the Christophers Award.
THE ITALIAN LETTER, with co-author Knut Royce, which traces fraudulent U.S. intelligence prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, historic insights for a greater understanding of the Iraq War and how the United States got there.
Eisner was deputy foreign editor and Washington, D.C, political editor with the Washington Post from 2003-2007. Earlier he was foreign editor and senior foreign correspondent of Newsday and was the managing director of the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington-based watchdog organization.
