Research Catalog

Title

A Vatican lifeline : allied fugitives, aided by the Italian resistance, foil the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied Rome, 1944 / by William C. Simpson.

Author

Simpson, William C.

Publication

London : Leo Cooper, 1995.

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Details

Description

x, 230 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports.; 25 cm.

Alternative Title

Vatican lifeline 44

Subject

• Simpson, William C
• Katholische Kirche Curia Romana
• 1939-1945
• Geschichte 1944
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, British
• World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > Italy > Rome
• Prisoners of war > Italy > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Personal narratives – British
• Autobiographies
• Personal narratives

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Go on, Jump! -- 2. Vico Breve -- 3. Great Hospital Escape -- 4. Rastrellamenti -- 5. Let's Try the Vatican -- 6. The Round-Up That Didn't -- 7. Rome One Way -- 8. The Lady Spurned -- 9. Irish Protagonist -- 10. Roman Flats -- 11. Butler Extraordinaire -- 12. Enter Renzo Lucidi -- 13. Royal Opera House -- 14. The Lady Sets a Trap -- 15. Gestapo Jackpot -- 16. Appuntamento con Monsignore O'Flaherty -- 17. Anzio Landing -- 18. Good Morning, Gestapo -- 19. To Hell and Back -- 20. Friends, Romans, Greeks -- 21. Americans on the Rise -- 22. Resurrected Duo -- 23. Pope Pius Appeals -- 24. Massacre -- 25. Gestapo Heat -- 26. No Monocle -- 27. Caught -- 28. Terzo Braccio -- 29. Scottish Cheques Unchecked -- 30. Ground Floor 'Special' -- 31. Allies on the Move -- 32. Freedom -- 33. German Retreat -- 34. Cheers in the Night.

ISBN

085052475X

LCCN

gb^96071619^

OCLC

• 34378805
• SCSB-12766204

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library