Books By David Alvarez, Eduard. Mark - Author

David Alvarez is professor emeritus ofpolitics at Saint Mary’s College of Californiaand a former scholar-in-residence at theNational Security Agency. He has publishedmany books, including three with Kansas:Secret Messages: Codebreaking and AmericanDiplomacy, 1930–1945; Spies in the Vatican:Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to theHolocaust; and The Pope’s Soldiers: A MilitaryHistory of the Modern Vatican. At the time of his death in 2009 EduardMark was senior historian in the Office ofAir Force History. He is the author of AerialInterdiction: Air Power and the Land Battle inThree American Wars and Defending the West:The United States Air Force and EuropeanSecurity, 1946–1998.