Eisner, Peter. The Pope's Last Crusade:How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI's Campaign To Stop Hitler. Morrow. 2013.304p. illus. notes, bibliog. index.ISBN 9780062049148. $27.99;ebk. ISBN 9780062049162

摘要

Much has been written about Pope Pius XII and his actions during World War Ⅱ, most famously by John Cornwell in his provocatively titled Hitler's Pope. Speculation continues among historians about how differently things might have turned out for Europe had that pope taken a stronger stance against Nazism and Italian fascism. This book focuses on his predecessor, Pius XI. It has now become known that, with the help of American priest John LaFarge, he was ready to take that stronger stance in the days before his death in 1939.