Owen Chadwick, Cwen Chadwick

Britain and the Vatican During the Second World War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this highly acclaimed "inside view" of the Vatican and Fascist Italy, Owen Chadwick offers a new and rare perspective into the predicament of the papacy, the struggle to keep Italy out of the war, the question of condemning atrocities, the fall of Fascism, and the German occupation of Rome.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780521368254
• ISBN-10: 0521368251
• Artikelnr.: 21617577

Autorenporträt

Reverend Professor Owen Chadwick is a renowned Christian scholar and church historian. He is a former Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and also served as Vice-Chancellor of the University. He also served as Master of Selwyn, College Cambridge from 1956-1983. Chadwick is an ordained Anglican Priest and was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1982.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Britain and the Vatican in the last years of Pope Pius XI (1935-39)
2. The conclave of 1939
3. The peace plans of Pius XII
4. The winter war, 1939-40
5. The Italian entry into the war
6. First months in the Vatican
7. Surveillance I
8. Surveillance II: the bag
9. The Jews in 1942
10. The bombing of Rome
11. The Italian armistice
12. The German occupation
13. Aftermath
Select bibliography
Index.