Japan at war in the Pacific : the rise and fall of the Japanese empire in Asia 1868-1945
Jonathan Clements
Based on newly opened Vatican archives, a groundbreaking book about Pope Pius XII and his actions during World War II, including how he responded to the Holocaust. Kertzer paints a new, dramatic portrait of what the pope did and did not do as war enveloped the continent and as the Nazis began their systematic mass murder of Europe's Jews.