Starry Messenger (picture book) Vatican Church, he was forced to retract his earlier statements that contradicted with the ideologies of the Vatican Church regarding the placement of the Earth, or risk death. Galileo chose to retract his statements and was confined to house arrest for eight years before his death in 1642. The book ends on a positive note when Sis writes about the Pardon that was issued to Galileo more than three hundred years later in October 1992. Peter Sis’s documentation of the acclaimed scientist, Galileo Galileo’s life received positive reviews from: "Kirkus Reviews", "Booklist", "School Library Journal" and more. "The New York
The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican is a book written by Vladimir Dedijer, World War II Yugoslav Partisan and revolutionary, a university professor and a human rights activist.The book is a shortened version of Dedijer's two books written in Serbian: "Vatikan i Jasenovac" and "Vatikan i Jasenovac Dokumenti", published by Rad Publishing House Belgrade in 1987. It was published in English under the title, "The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs During World War II" by Prometheus Books, in 1992 (). The same book was published in German as