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Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priest The story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty would become adversaries in a real-life game of 'cat and mouse' of epic proportions. Hide and Seek chronicles the intimate and intensely personal war between them. A fiercely fought rivalry that would culminate in failed attempts by Kappler to kidnap and then murder his Irish opponent. In July 1943 Rome was bombed for the first time during the war. As the swastika flew above the city, it was a time of fear, and a moment of choice: collaborate and compromise, or resist and revolt. O'Flaherty decided to quietly resist and fight the new rulers. Dubbed 'Ireland's Oscar Schindler', he masterminded a large-scale operation from within the Vatican, to help Jews and escaped Allied prisoners on the run from the Nazis. He used a series of safe houses and church buildings and sheltered around 500 Jews in the Holy See, and it is believed that sanctuary was found for some 4000 Jews across Rome, and 4000 Allied escapees. After the Resistance killed 32 German soldiers in a bombing, Hitler was enraged, and declared that he wanted a revenge attack to "make the world tremble". He instructed Kappler to draw up plans. Eventually, 335 people would be executed in the Ardeatine Caves, a labyrinth of tunnels outside the city. The massacre would become the worst atrocity committed on Italian soil during WWII. Kappler's handiwork would remain secret until Rome was liberated by the Allies in June 1944. The Nazi Colonel was found guilty on all the charges relating to the caves massacre. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole. Amazingly, O'Flaherty would continue his relationship with Kappler, going to see his former rival in prison. The discussions of the two men would become intense and searching, and a friendship grew between them. In later life, after much soul-searching Kappler became a Catholic, and was baptised by the Irish Monsignor.

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Gebundene Ausgabe: 352 Seiten
Verlag: Harper Collins Cartographic (3. M�rz 2011)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0007320272
ISBN-13: 978-0007320271
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 16,5 x 24,3 cm

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'A heartening story. This is a new angle on it as a duel between the Irish Monsignor and the Gestapo Colonel., - Book of the Week Daily Mail 'Stephen Walker has produced a really thrilling book, all the more so because he has taken care to reflect the complexities of his central characters., - Fergal Keane '... remarkably affecting... the old stories are, it seems, still the best ones,. - The Sunday Telegraph

Über den Autor

Stephen Walker is an award-winning BBC journalist. Born in England and educated in Northern Ireland, he has worked for BBC Northern Ireland for 20 years as a television and radio reporter, a documentary maker and a lobby correspondent at Westminster. He has made numerous current affairs and historical documentaries. Stephen,s journalism has been honoured by the Royal Television Society and the Association of European Journalists. In 2005 he was named the Northern Ireland Journalist of the Year. His first book, Forgotten Soldiers: The Irishmen Shot at Dawn was shortlisted for the 2007 Irish Non Fiction Book of the Year. He lives in County Down with his wife and family.

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4.0 von 5 Sternen AvidReader 9. Mai 2012

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This was a television miniseries in 1983. The title: "The Scarlet and the Black"
was definitely one of the better productions and sadly we just don't see productions like this on the home screen.
Gregory Peck was Msgn. O'Flaherty and Christopher Plummer as the Nazi officer
along with John Gielgud and Edmund Purdom. Filmed at the Vatican and the views of Rome were beautiful.
Congratulations to the author for resurrecting this wonderful story.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Brilliant 6. April 2012

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A truely brilliant true story of an Irish priest who defied the Nazis and in a lot of ways the Pope himself to save the Roman Jews. A great price for a great read.

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4.0 von 5 Sternen Historically Interesting and Accurate but too long 5. April 2013

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This is a very interesting book about how, an Irish priest stationed at the Vatican, tried to help the allies that were moving north behind enemy lines. Allies that had either escaped POW camps or bomber crews or figter pilots that perhaps had been shot down. The resourcefulness of the priest was amazing. The other message that comes thru is twofold, the fact that the SS were ruthless in their 9 month occupation of Rome and second, the fact that the Romans who survived the war neither forgave nor forgot how badly they had been mistreated during the occupation. The other thing that comes thru is the overwhelming fear that the Holy Father had that his neutral Vatican would become just another war prize and was therefore not supportive of the freedom trail that the Irish priest had developed for escaping allies.
If the books lacks anything, it will wander from year to year. So one year we are in 1939, next we are in 1945 and it bounces back to 1944. A true chronological order would have been great. Lastly, the book is quite long so don't buy this book if you don't have the time to pore through alot of detail.

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