Peace without Hiroshima secret action at the vatican in the spring of 1945

Quigley, Martin S.

ISBN 10: 0819180564 / ISBN 13: 9780819180568

Published by Madison Books, Lanham, MD, 1991

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Mildly Marked Ex Library Copy on book and DJ, $22.95 Publishers Dust Jacket Price, B/W Illustrations.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Peace without Hiroshima secret action at the vatican in the spring of 1945
• Publisher: Madison Books, Lanham, MD
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819180564
• ISBN 13: 9780819180568
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 2 pounds

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Synopsis

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.

Reviews

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.
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