CRUX ANSATA: AN INDICTMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. By H. G. WELLS, AGORA PUBLISHING CO., NEW YORK, 1944.
 
The U.S. edition was copyrighted and published in 1944 by Agora Publishing Co., New York, with a portrait frontispiece and an appendix of an interview with Wells recorded by John Rowland.
 
H. G. Wells, living in London under the regular German Luftwaffe bombings from across the English Channel, extensively attacks Pope Pius XII and calls for the bombing of the city of Rome.
 
The book also forms a hostile history of the Roman Catholic church, deeply imbued with Anti-clericalism. Wells, an atheist, had a long history of anti-Catholic writings spanning decades.
 
Red cover with gilt title. Secure binding with clean pages and a lightly rubbed cover. Hardcover book with 116 pages.