The Pope's Legion: The Multinational Fighting Force that Defended the Vatican by Charles A. Coulombe

The Pope's Legion: The Multinational Fighting Force that Defended the Vatican

Charles A. Coulombe

272 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative slow-paced

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With Arthurian grandeur the Papal Zouaves marched into Italy in the mid-nineteenth century, summoned by the Pope under siege as the Wars of the Risorgimento raged. Motivated by wanderlust, a sense of duty and the call of faith, some 20,000 Catholi...

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