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Based on docuements recently declassified by the United States and Japan, Martin S. Quigley, formerly O.S.S. agent under O.S.S. Director General William J. Donovan, recounts the true story of a plan for peace that succeeded in opening communications with Tokyo in the spring of 1945. With the help of a Vatican diplomat, a Japanese priest, and the Japanese ambassador to the Holy See, talks were initiated. Plans were sidetracked and peace was not achieved until after the atomic bomings of Hiroshima and Nagaski in August 1945. Packed with drama and suspense of a spy novel,Peace Without Hiroshima opens an unknown chapter of World War II diplomatic and intelligence history.
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About the Author
Quigley is an Irish-American writer, editor, publisher, and educator. After graduating from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 1939, he joined his father's film-trade publishing company. He entered U.S. governement service prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and at first worked in film propaganda. He was accepted for secret intelligence work in the OSS in 1942. He rejoined the family firm a month after World War II ended.
From Library Journal
Quigley was a World War II OSS agent in Ireland and Rome who posed as an American motion picture industry representative. Charged with intelligence-gathering functions, he was also asked by OSS director William J. Donovan to investigate the possibility of the Vatican mediating the surrender of Japan. That request is the basis for this meager treatment of a minor event. The "secret action" resulted in no more than two unenthusiastic cables from Japan's Vatican ambassador to Tokyo; they were never even acknowledged, let alone answered. The text is full of insignificant details, construed conversations, misinformed analysis, and the author's constant self-praise (told in the third person). Not recommended.
- Kenneth W. Berger, Duke Univ. Lib., Durham, N.C.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherMadison Books
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0819180564
- ISBN 13 9780819180568
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages173
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