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100 1  Walker, Stephen. 
245 10 Hide & seek :|bthe Irish priest in the Vatican who defied 
       the Nazi command /|cStephen Walker. 
246 3  Hide and seek :|bthe Irish priest in the Vatican who 
       defied the Nazi command 
264  1 Guilford, Conn. :|bLyons Press,|c2011. 
300    ix, 342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-328) and 
       index. 
520    Hide & Seek chronicles the intensely personal war between 
       wartime Rome's Nazi SS Chief Herbert Kappler and the 
       Vatican's Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a fiercely fought 
       rivalry that culminated in Kappler attempting to kidnap 
       and murder his Irish opponent, who was determined to fight
       Rome's Nazi rulers. Called "Ireland's Oscar Schindler," 
       O'Flaherty masterminded a large-scale operation from 
       inside the neutral Vatican, to hide and help Jews, downed 
       airmen, and escaped Allied prisoners. Using safe houses 
       and church buildings, the priest sheltered around five 
       hundred Jews in the Holy See and many thousands more Jews 
       and Allied escapees in and around Rome. After a Resistance
       bomb killed thirty-two German soldiers, an enraged Hitler 
       ordered revenge. Kappler planned and oversaw the firing 
       squad execution of 335 people in the Ardeatine Caves 
       outside Rome. The massacre became the worst atrocity 
       committed on Italian soil during the war. After the war, 
       the Nazi colonel was found guilty on all the charges 
       relating to the massacre and sentenced to life. Amazingly,
       O'Flaherty began visiting his former rival in prison, 
       engaging in a long-run conversation that led to Kappler's 
       conversion, and baptism by the Irish Monsignor. 
600 10 O'Flaherty, Hugh,|d1898-1963. 
610 20 Catholic Church|xClergy|vBiography. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xUnderground movements|zItaly. 
650  0 Priests|zIreland|vBiography. 
650  0 Diplomats|zVatican City|vBiography. 
994    02|bCKE