by John Cornwell · Viking Penguin · tapa dura · ISBN 9780670876204
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«Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII» is John Cornwell's biography, published by Viking Penguin in hardback (448 pages, in English).
John Cornwell reconstructs the career of Eugenio Pacelli, from Vatican diplomat to Pope Pius XII, and argues that his antisemitism and his silence before the Holocaust paved the way for Nazism. He analyses the 1933 concordat with Hitler and the role of the Catholic Church in the rise of the Third Reich.
First edition published in 1999. Its author, John Cornwell, is an award-winning journalist; the work became a controversial bestseller about the papacy and Nazism.
For those interested in twentieth-century history, the Second World War and the role of the Catholic Church in the face of Nazism and the Holocaust.
John Travers Cornwell VC, commonly known as Jack Cornwell or as Boy Cornwell, is remembered for his gallantry at the Battle of Jutland during World War I. Having died at the age of only 16, he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Cornwell is the third-youngest recipient of the VC after Andrew Fitzgibbon and Thomas Flynn.
