1928 St Marys Rd, Moraga, CA 94575, United States
Saint Mary's College of California where David Alvarez received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, United States
The University of Connecticut where David Alvarez received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
1928 St Marys Rd, Moraga, CA 94575, United States
Saint Mary's College of California where David Alvarez received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, United States
The University of Connecticut where David Alvarez received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
(Nothing Sacred is the first book to document the Nazi esp...)
Nothing Sacred is the first book to document the Nazi espionage campaign against the Vatican in the Second World War. This work will prove fascinating reading for those interested in Second World War history, intelligence studies, and the history of the Catholic Church.
https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Sacred-Espionage-1939-1945-Intelligence/dp/0714643025/ref=sr_1_23?dchild=1&qid=1601885436&refinements=p_27%3ADavid+Alvarez&s=books&sr=1-23&text=David+Alvarez
1997
(Allied and Axis Signals Intelligence in World War II refl...)
Allied and Axis Signals Intelligence in World War II reflects the importance of codebreaking and signals intelligence in the diplomacy and military operations of World War II.
https://www.amazon.com/Allied-Signals-Intelligence-World-Studies/dp/0714680192/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&qid=1601885308&refinements=p_27%3ADavid+Alvarez&s=books&sr=1-5&text=David+Alvarez
1999
(To defeat your enemies you must know them well. In wartim...)
To defeat your enemies you must know them well. In wartime, however, enemy code makers make that task much more difficult. If you cannot break their codes and read their messages, you may discover too late the enemy's intentions. That's why codebreakers were considered such a crucial weapon during World War II. In Secret Messages, David Alvarez provides the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of decoded radio messages (signals intelligence) upon American foreign policy and strategy from 1930 to 1945. He presents the most complete account to date of the U.S. Army's top-secret Signal Intelligence Service: its creation, its struggles, its rapid wartime growth, and its contributions to the war effort.
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Messages-Codebreaking-Diplomacy-1930-1945/dp/0700610138
2000
(Revered by millions, the Papacy is an international power...)
Revered by millions, the Papacy is an international power that many nations have viewed with suspicion, some have tried to control, and not a few have spied upon. Ranging across two centuries of world history, David Alvarez's fascinating study throws open the Vatican's doors to reveal the startling but little-known world of espionage in one of the most sacred places on earth. Reviewing the pontificates of ten popes, Alvarez provides the first history of the intelligence operations and covert activities that reached the highest levels of the Vatican.
https://www.amazon.com/Spies-Vatican-Espionage-Intrigue-Holocaust/dp/0700612149
2002
(Most students of history assume that the age of the "warl...)
Most students of history assume that the age of the "warlord popes" ended with the Renaissance, but, long after the victory of Catholic powers at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, the Papacy continued to entangle itself in martial affairs. David Alvarez now opens up this little-known aspect of the Papacy in the first general history of the papal armed forces. His is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive chronicle of the modern Vatican's military and security forces from 1796, when the armies of revolutionary France invaded the Papal States, through the wars for unification, to the present-day deployment of modern weapons, technology, and skills to protect the Holy Father and the Vatican from terrorists and assassins.
https://www.amazon.com/Popes-Soldiers-Military-History-Vatican/dp/0700617701
2011
David Alvarez began his studies at Saint Mary's College of California where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in government in 1969. Then he went to the University of Connecticut and obtained a Master of Arts degree in political science in 1971 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree also in political science in 1975.
David Alvarez devoted most of his life to teaching, particularly at Saint Mary's College of California where he is a professor emeritus now. He began his career at this university in 1973 becoming later a professor. In 1975 he was acting chair of the department of politics. In 1986-1991 and 1992-1993 he was chair of the department of politics.
During his years at Saint Mary's College of California, he was also a member of the Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid, Search Committee for the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, Institutional Identity & Long-range Planning Subcommittee of WASC Self-Study, Faculty Programs Abroad Committee, Screening Committee for the Recruitment of an Academic Vice President, Rank and Tenure Committee, Steering Group of School of Liberal Arts, Academic Coordinating Committee, Academic Petitions and Standards Committee, Faculty Bookstore Committee, Faculty Development Committee, Faculty Grievance Committee, External Degree Programs Committee, President's Advisory Committee on Public Relations, Faculty Committee on the Academic Calendar, Committee on Lectures, Art, and Faculty Executive Committee.
At this college, he was also a member of the Advisory Board of Hearst Art Gallery, chair of the Faculty Programs Abroad Committee, and faculty representative to the Alumni Board of Directors. Alvarez was also a visiting professor in Italy and France.
A former scholar at the National Security Agency, David Alvarez emerged as a prominent historian of signals intelligence and other aspects of espionage, particularly as it was used in World War II. At the same time, he retained a strong early interest in the history of religion, and in two well-received books, he combined both of these interests by exploring the history of spying in the Vatican.
After editing An American Church: Essays on the Americanization of the Catholic Church and publishing a short work on United States-Turkish relations at the dawn of the Cold War, Alvarez edited Religion and Society in the American West: Historical Essays. According to the opening essay by Eldon G. Ernst, most historians of American religion have ignored the Far West, and historians of the Far West have neglected religion. The book sets out to correct that deficiency, covering numerous religious developments west of the Rocky Mountains, with sections on Missionaries, Education, Mormonism, and other sects and ethnicities that have shaped that history. It achieves a good balance between a broad picture, with articles on Mexican-American Catholicism and Judaism as civil religion, and more specific subjects dealing with individual personalities.
In Nothing Sacred: Nazi Espionage Against the Vatican, 1939-1945, Alvarez and coauthor Fr. Robert A. Graham explore another neglected area of religious history, the attempt by the Nazi regime to penetrate the legendary secrecy of the Vatican. Drawing on memoirs and newly available archives, the authors wrote a lucid and fascinating analysis of the Nazi attempts to understand Vatican strategies during World War II. According to Alvarez and Graham, those attempts seem to have been largely unsuccessful, foiled by the intense loyalty of ecclesiastics, the Nazis' pathological hatred for the Church, and bureaucratic infighting between various German agencies responsible for gathering information. This book contributes to the growing body of literature demonstrating the Vatican's importance in twentieth-century diplomatic affairs. Alvarez and Graham show the uniqueness of the Vatican and the difficulties any secular government had in penetrating an organization built on clerical loyalties and training in confessional secrecy.
Alvarez's next two books continued his interest in espionage during World War II. In Allied and Axis Signals Intelligence in World War II, Alvarez brings together a number of essays on collaboration within the alliances in the highly secretive area of codebreaking. Alvarez followed up with Secret Messages: Codebreaking and American Diplomacy, 1939-1945, a history of the origins of modern American signals intelligence. In it, Alvarez combined facts, careful history, intriguing and colorful personalities, and organizational detail into a well-written and captivating narrative.
In Spies in the Vatican: Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust, Alvarez returned to his longstanding interest in the attempts of largely secular nations to penetrate and influence the clerical world of the papacy. In some ways an easy target, due to its reliance on outdated codes and the ease of placing agents in this most cosmopolitan center, Alvarez shows that the Vatican has proven strangely resistant to the prying eyes of foreign governments, in part due to its strict hierarchy and the intense loyalty of its members to the interests of the Church. At the same time, he illustrates the frustrations of the Vatican in gaining worthwhile intelligence, due largely to its reliance on agents with religious, rather than intelligence, training, and its inability to keep up with European developments in spying technology.
David Alvarez is an acknowledged professor of politics and scholar, who served at Saint Mary's College of California. For his teaching and research activity, he received numerous honors, including grants from the American Philosophical Society, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, and National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as Saint Mary's College Alumni Faculty Research Fellowship and a research fellowship from the National Security Agency.
(Most students of history assume that the age of the "warl...)
2011(Allied and Axis Signals Intelligence in World War II refl...)
1999(Revered by millions, the Papacy is an international power...)
2002(Religion and Society in the American West is a collection...)
1987(Nothing Sacred is the first book to document the Nazi esp...)
1997(To defeat your enemies you must know them well. In wartim...)
2000
