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Peter Eisner

Biography

Peter Eisner

Peter Eisner, a veteran foreign correspondent, has been deputy foreign editor and Washington, D.C, political editor with the Washington Post, foreign editor and senior foreign correspondent of Newsday, and bureau chief and correspondent for AP in the US and Latin America. Eisner is the former managing director of the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington-based watchdog organization. He is the author or co-author of five previous books, including THE POPE'S LAST CRUSADE, THE ITALIAN LETTER and THE FREEDOM LINE, winner of the Christopher Award.

Peter Eisner

Books by Peter Eisner

MacArthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II
by Peter Eisner - History, Nonfiction

On January 2, 1942, Japanese troops marched into Manila unopposed by U.S. forces. Manila was a strategic port, a romantic American outpost and a jewel of a city. Tokyo saw its conquest of the Philippines as the key in its plan to control all of Asia, including Australia. Thousands of soldiers surrendered and were sent on the notorious 80-mile Bataan Death March. But thousands of other Filipinos and Americans refused to surrender and hid in the Luzon hills above Bataan and Manila. MacARTHUR’S SPIES is the story of three of them, and how they successfully foiled the Japanese for more than two years, sabotaging Japanese efforts and preparing the way for MacArthur’s return.

The Pope's Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI's Campaign to Stop Hitler
by Peter Eisner - History, Nonfiction

Drawing on untapped resources, exclusive interviews, and new archival research, THE POPE’S LAST CRUSADE by Peter Eisner is a thrilling narrative that sheds new light on Pope Pius XI’s valiant effort to condemn Nazism and the policies of the Third Reich --- a crusade that might have changed the course of World War II.