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User Review - 2wonderY - LibraryThingAn excellent recounting of resistance work during Nazi occupation of Rome. Centers around a marvelous character - Hugh O'Flaherty, fearless and audacious. Fleshes out some of the subsidiary roles merely noted in the Gregory Peck film based on the book. Better than fiction! Read full review
Contents
Authors Preface | 9 |
Gods Traveller | 23 |
The Council of Three | 32 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican |
| Author | J. P. Gallagher |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Coward-McCann, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 11, 2008 |
| Length | 184 pages |
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