Pontifex Maximus: A Short History of the Popes

"Lascelles has achieved the seemingly impossible: a concise and highly readable history of Catholic Popes that manages to be extremely entertaining and informative at the same time."
- Gerald Posner, author of God's Bankers

"A brilliant book on a number of different levels. Lascelles has an engaging prose style and an amazing eye for detail and apposite anecdote. Surely only purblind Catholic zelanti will object to this outstanding analysis."
- Frank McLynn, author of Genghis Khan, Napoleon an...