World War II

    • Read in the refectory at Clear Creek at the evening meal starting in April 2024. This meticulously researched work gives a suspenseful account of the secret intrigues of Pius XII against Hitler during the Second World War.
    • ISBN: 9780465094110
    • Softcover, 5.5 8.25 in
    • 371 pages.
    • Captured by a Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a “Vatican spy,” Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent twenty-three agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. Ciszek learns to accept the inhuman work in the infamous Siberian salt mines as a labor pleasing to God. And through that experience, he was able to turn the adverse forces of circumstance into a source of positive value and a means of drawing closer to the compassionate and never-forsaking Divine Spirit.
    • ISBN: 9780804141529
    • Softcover, 5 x 7 inches, 208 pages.
    • Part of the very rare breed of Parachute Chaplains, in his case with the 101st Airborne Division, Sampson spent much of his career as an army chaplain in the center of maelstroms of the 20th century. Throughout it all, Sampson offered a valuable Christian witness in the darkest of times and the most difficult of circumstances.
    • ISBN: 9780813236575
    • Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 207 pages.
    • Read in the refectory at Clear Creek, Summer 2025.
    • It has all the hallmarks of a best-selling fictional thriller: espionage, conspiracy, a struggle against evil powers, undercover work by dark of night... but it's all true. The Scarlet and the Black tells the astonishing and heroic true story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, the man dubbed "The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican" during World War II.
    • ISBN: 9781586174095
    • Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 191 pages.
    • Here is the astonishing true story of the harrowing experiences of a young German seminarian drafted into Hitler's dreaded SS at the onset of World War II. Without betraying his Christian ideals, against all odds, and in the face of Evil, Gereon Goldmann was able to complete his priestly training, be ordained, and secretly minister to German Catholic soldiers and innocent civilian victims caught up in the horrors of war. How it all came to pass will astound you.
    • ISBN: 9780898707748
    • Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 345 pages.
    • ISBN: 9781586177096
    • Softcover, 329 pages, including 24 pages of photos.
    • 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
    • Read in the refectory of Clear Creek, starting December 2021.
    • When Hitler Took Austria: A Memoir of Heroic Faith by the Chancellor's Son, by Kurt Von Schuschnigg with Janet Von Schuschnigg. His memoir is a tribute to the faith, hope and perseverance of his family and the many people who took great risks in order to help them survive Nazi rule and the Second World War.
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