Spies in the Vatican: Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust

by David Alvarez

Revered by millions, the Papacy is an international power that many nations have viewed with suspicion, some have tried to control, and not a few have spied upon. Ranging across two centuries of world history, David Alvarez's fascinating study throws open the Vatican's doors to reveal the startling but little-known world of espionage in one of the most sacred places on earth.

Reviewing the pontificates of ten popes--from Pius VII, Napoleon's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700612149
• ISBN13: 9780700612147
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 8.8"