Avro Manhattan
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Avro Manhattan (1914-1990) was an author whose works were highly critical of the Roman Catholic Church (see anti-Catholicism) (though he also wrote on other things) in politics and was the author of several works relating to the Vatican's role in world politics and world affairs.
[edit] His Life
Born in Milan, Italy on April 6, 1914 to American and Swiss/Dutch parents, Manhattan was educated at the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics.
During World War Two, Manhattan was jailed in Italy for refusing to serve in Mussolini's fascist army. Later during the war, he operated a radio station called "Radio Freedom" broadcasting to nations occupied by the Axis Powers. For this service he was made a Knight of Malta.
His friends included H.G. Wells, Pablo Picasso, George Bernard Shaw and scientist Marie Stopes.
Manhattan spent much of his later life after 1979 at the ornately decorated home of his wife's mother, 45 Henry Nelson Street, South Shields, County Durham.
[edit] His Works
Manhattan authored more than 20 books, including The Vatican in World Politics, one of the best-selling books of all time. It has been translated into most major languages, including Chinese, Russian and most recently, Korean. Some of his other popular works include The Vatican Billions, The Vatican's Holocaust, and Vatican Moscow Alliance. Some of his books which are especially critical of the Vatican and of Roman Catholicism are promoted by anti-Catholics such as Jack Chick.
The following is a list of Avro Manhattan's most notable works, ordered chronologically:
- Latin America and the Vatican (1946)
- The Catholic Church Against the Twentieth Century (1947; 2nd edition 1950)
- The Vatican in Asia (1948)
- Religion in Russia (1949)
- The Vatican in World Politics (1949)
- Catholic Imperialism and World Freedom (1952; 2nd edition 1959)
- Terror Over Yugoslavia, the Threat to Europe (1953)
- The Dollar and the Vatican (1956)
- Vatican Imperialism in the Twentieth Century (1965)
- Vatican Moscow Alliance (1982)
- The Vatican Billions (1983)
- Catholic Terror in Ireland (1988)
- Vietnam ... why did we go? (1984)
- Murder in the Vatican, American Russian and Papal Plots (1985)
- The Vatican’s Holocaust (1986)
[edit] External links
- The entire text of The Vatican's Holocaust provided on-line by Reformation.org
- The entire text of Vietnam ... why did we go? provided on-line by Reformation.org
- Excerpts from Vatican Imperialism in the 20th Century, provided on-line by Reformation.org
- Biography on Avro Manhattan
