He even organised his own information service inside the Gestapo. On a typical night he would have between one and two hundred men and women hidden in Rome alone, some in the German college itself, others practically next door to Gestapo headquarters, once in an Italian police barracks.
Quite often too, the burly Monsignor defied his own Church authorities. Peter’s in his black and purple robes, he was literally and figuratively the Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican, openly defying the German SS as he waited for people in distress and escapers, from rankers to generals, peasants, princes and princesses, to come to him to be saved from imprisonment, torture and probably death. The contents complete, clean and tight.įrom the cover: “A towering Irish priest, fun-loving, guileless, gentle, Hugh Joseph O’Flaherty became the most ‘wanted’ man in Rome, the scourge of the Nazis and Fascists, saviour of more Allied lives than probably any other single person during the Second World War. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Dust wrapper worn at the edges with several short, but closed, tears and slight fraying to the spine ends. (Joseph Peter) GallagherLondon: Souvenir Press, 1967, Hardback in Dust Wrapper.Ĭondition: Good - in Good Dust Wrapper.
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