Spy in the Vatican 1941-45 / Branko Bokun.
Impresum
New York : Praeger Publishers ;,, cop. 1973.)
Materijalni opis
259 str. s tablama : ilustr. ; 23 cm.
Autor
Tip građe
Vrsta građe
Sažetak
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.
Zbirka
