A Special Mission

"A true and gripping adventure story told with a reporter's eye for detail and a writer's gift of sensitive portrayal." —Award-winning journalist Marvin Kalb

In September 1943, Adolf Hitler, furious at the ouster of Benito Mussolini, sent German troops into Rome with plans to deport Rome's Jews to Auschwitz. Hitler also ordered SS General Karl Wolff, who had been Heinrich Himmler's chief aide, to occupy the Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius XII. But Wolff began playing a dangerous game: stalling Hitler's kidnap plot, while blackmailing the pope into silence as the Jews were rounded up.

This tale of intrigue and betrayal is one of the most important untold stories of World War II, and A Special Mission is the only book to give the full incredible account of Hitler's kidnap plot and its far-reaching consequences.

"An unforgettable and impeccably readable story." —Georgie Anne Geyer, author of Guerilla Prince: The Untold Story of Fidel Castro