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

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nonfiction history religion
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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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