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(Paperback)

By: John Cornwell

ISBN: 9780140266818
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Discusses the World War II career of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who was Pope Pius XII. This book shows how in 1933 Hitler became his negotiating partner, an agreement was arranged that granted religious and financial payments to the Catholic Church in exchange for their withdrawal from political privilege, ensuring the rise of Nazism.


(Paperback)

By: John Cornwell

ISBN: 9780140296860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In a rich and fascinating history John Cornwell tells the epic story of Germany's scientists from the First World War to the collapse of Hitler's Reich.


(Paperback)

By: John Cornwell

ISBN: 9780007244324
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had to make between the Church and a life lived outside its confines.


(Paperback)

By: John Cornwell

ISBN: 9780141020716
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Late John Paul II was portrayed by admirers as one of history's great popes. But in The Pope in Winter, leading Vatican expert John Cornwell seriously questions the workings of his papacy and points to fundamental flaws - exacerbated by age and infirmity - that have alarming consequences for both the Catholic Church's future.


(Hardback)

By: John Cornwell

ISBN: 9781529441963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2025
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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This new edition of a true crime classic includes a postscript in which the author describes the extraordinary lengths that the great poet Ted Hughes, a neighbour of the Luxtons, went to try and suppress publication of the book.