became the mentor of Yasser Arafat. Reviews In the July/August 2006 issue of The American Spectator, Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill and the author of ten books on the Holocaust, writes: "Building on earlier, documented defenses of Pius XII...[ Dalin ] builds a powerful case for Pius XII, suggesting that the desire of Pope John Paul II to canonize Pius need not have been offensive -- or insensitive -- to Jews, as it was widely portrayed." Gilbert asserts that "Professor Dalin's book is an essential contribution to our understanding of the reality of Pope Pius XII's support for Jews at their time of greatest danger." Francis Phillips of the Jerusalem Post wrote: "(This) book, which is robust, polemical and argumentative, deploys much documentation to show that the portrayal of the pope as a Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite is at best grotesque, at worst deliberately false... Dalin has done an excellent job in defending the wartime record of Pius XII... Because of the author's scholarly research, it is to be hoped that history in the long term will be kinder to the reputation of a man maligned." See also Pius XII and the German Resistance Catholic Church and Nazi Germany Catholic resistance to Nazi Germany References Notes Goldhagenizing the Catholic Church, Paul Gottfried (18 January 2002) The Defamation of Pope Pius XII, Tom Woods (25 July 2005) Gilbert, Martin, "Hitler's Pope?," The American Spectator, http://spectator.org/articles/46578/hitlers-pope (July/August 2006) Lapomarda, Vincent A., "Not Hitler's Pope," New Oxford Review, October 2000, and "Pius XII as 'Phayer's Pope'," New Oxford Review, April 2009 2005 in Christianity 2005 non-fiction books 21st-century history books American non-fiction books Books about Nazism Books about Pope Pius XII Catholicism and politics English-language books History books about Catholicism History books about World War II History of the papacy Pope Pius XII and World War II Regnery Publishing books