Spy in the Vatican, 1941-45 - Softcover

Bokun, Branko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0951052527 ISBN 13: 9780951052525

Publisher: Vita Books, 1988

Synopsis

This is a remarkable account, based on diary form, of the
author's experiences in wartime Rome. In 1941, Branko Bokun was sent by the
Yugoslav Red Cross to seek Vatican intervention on behalf of Orthodox
Serbs, Jews and Catholics who were being massacred by fanatical Croatian
Catholics. He became closely involved with the underground of the Eternal
City - a wartime world peopled by adventurers, spies, deserters, escaped
prisoners-of-war, `normal' criminals and ordinary people just trying to
survive. Rome was an axis city with a neutral state, the Vatican, nestling
at its centre. The book chronicles the machinations of Catholic clergy,
Nazis, Communists and the Allies in this hotbed of international intrigue.
This is a valuable document about a unique aspect of the war which gives
this fresh viewpoint with wit and humanity.

About this title

Product Description:

A fascinating look at spies in the Vatican during the /Secxond World War

Review:

`A Slavic version of Catch-22.' -- Washington-Post

`A collection of anecdotes on rulers and the ruled. A brilliant
view of the Second World War.'
-- Corriere della Sera

`A sensitive account of life in a foreign capital in wartime. He
depicts with wry vivacity a half-world of spies and counter-spies.' -- The Economist

`Mr Bokun tells us these stories with the irony and compassion
they deserve. His style is unobtrusively brilliant.' -- The New York Times

`One of the most vivid and authentic contemporary pictures yet
published in English of Rome during this period ... Bokun's account is
often wryly amusing and his chance meeting with the recently deposed
Mussolini makes curiously moving reading.' -- Publisher's Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Vita Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0951052527
• ISBN 13: 9780951052525
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272