Table of Contents
Prologue
May 13, 1981 Moscow Takes Its Shot 1
Part 1 Warnings and Beginnings
1 May 13, 1917 An Echo 13
2 October 26, 1917 The Devils Take Over 28
3 May 1920-June 1922: A Birth in Poland and a Rebirth in the Midwest 40
Part 2 Persecutions and Errors
4 1924-1939 The "Satanic Scourge" of Communism 53
5 1939-1945 "Blood, Blood, Blood, and Again Blood" 68
6 1945-1952 The Iron Curtain Descends 85
7 1956-1963 Crushing Hungary and Smearing Pius XII 94
8 November 22, 1963 Communism's Errors Reach Dallas 109
Part 3 Wojtyla and Reagan Rising
9 1946-1959 Battling Communists in Poland and Hollywood 125
10 The 1960s A Time for Choosing 137
11 May 6, 1975 The Dry Martyrdom of Cardinal Mindszenty 150
12 Summer of 1976 Two Freedom Fighters in America 156
13 1977-1978 "We Win and They Lose" 167
14 1978-1979 "Be Not Afraid" 177
15 1980-1981 An Era of Renewal 200
Part 4 Game Changers
16 March 30, 1981 A Bullet for a President 213
17 March 29-30, 1981 The Soviet Invasion That Wasn't 223
18 May 13, 1981 A (Soviet) Bullet for a Pope 245
19 May-September 1981 Commencement 259
20 December 13, 1981 Martial Law 269
21 January-June 1982 Face to Face in the Vatican 286
22 July-December 1982 Moscow Under Suspicion 306
23 1983 Dealing with an "Evil Empire" 319
24 March 25, 1984 The Consecration of Russia 344
25 May 1984 Together Again 353
26 October 19, 1984 The Martyrdom of Father Jerzy Popieluszko 363
27 March 1985 A New Kind of Soviet Leader 375
28 May 1985 A President in Portugal 380
29 May 1985 "The Russians Did It" 391
Part 5 Ending an Evil Empire
30 November 1985-Decembcr 1987 The President and the "Closet Christian" 421
31 December 8, 1987 An Immaculate Peace 431
32 June-December 1987 Reagan's Fátima Briefing 442
33 May-June 1988 Reagan's Mission to Moscow 462
34 June 1988 Ending the Soviet "War on Religion" 477
35 1989-1991 The Collapse of the Evil Empire 484
Part 6 Revelations and Goodbyes
36 May 13, 2000 The Third Secret of Fátima-Revealed 505
37 June 5, 2004 Ronald Reagan's Silent Goodbye 513
38 April 2, 2005 Divine Mercy for John Paul II 522
Epilogue: June 27, 2011 Kindred Spirits, Kindred Souls 535
Afterword for the Paperback Edition: 2018 New Answers to Lingering Questions 541
Acknowledgments 547
Notes 553
Index 623