David Kertzer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, anthropologist and historian.

The Pope At War

Based on newly opened Vatican archives, a groundbreaking, explosive, and riveting book about Pope Pius XII and his actions during World War II, including how he responded to the Holocaust, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Pope and Mussolini.

"Spellbinding" - The Boston Globe
"Masterly" - The New Yorker

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"Kertzer’s brilliant treatment of the crisis in the papacy reads like a thriller"

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"Kertzer tells a fascinating and tragic story"

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“a riveting courtroom drama”

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