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A collection of Owen Chadwick's principal writings on Lord Acton, distinguished Victorian historian and founder of THE CAMBRIDGE MODERN HISTORY. Some of these pieces are no longer readily available, while one has never before appeared in English. Chadwick explains the important aspects of Acton's complex mind and his great contribution to historical studies.

The book studies the use made by the British government of its envoy, immured inside the Vatican from 1940 to 1944, and what the envoy made of such opportunities during the Second World War to help the Allied cause. We see the Vatican, the Fascist Italy, from 'inside', and so gain a new and rare perspective into the predicament of the papacy. Owen Chadwick gives insight into the workings of the Vatican, including such questions as the struggle...