BOOK OF THE WEEK
MY FATHER’S HOUSE
By JOSEPH O’CONNOR Vintage
In 1943 the Nazis invaded Rome, with the city ruled by the vicious Gestapo commander Paul Hauptmann. The Vatican, an independent country within the city, was neutral territory and off limits to Hitler’s thugs.
As the Occupation went on, escape lines were set up by Catholic priests living in the Vatican, which resulted in hundreds of Jews and allied prisoners of war finding sanctuary and
