The Mark Aarons, John Loftus book, Ratlines (reviewed in Lobster 22) is out in soft-back in the UK — Manderin, £4.99. This is an important book, essential background reading to the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the drive by Germany and the Papacy to get diplomatic recognition for Croatia.
The April mail-shot from The Keys of Peter — an eccentric but entertaining mixture of high Catholicism, anti-Masonic thought and conspiracy theories — contains one of the truly great rewrites of an author’s intentions. Of the Aarons and Loftus book about the collaboration between the Vatican and Axis war criminals, Keys editor Ronald King says:’A topical book dealing with the Vatican’s diplomatic efforts to defend Croatia and Slovenia from Nazism and Communism in the 1940s and 1950s, and how those efforts were subverted by the US and British governments.’
Mr King, that is awesome.