The Pope's Legion: The Multinational Fighting Force That Defended the Vatican AUTH-4506755 "Rusch's story is a powerful

"Rusch's story is a powerful and engaging exploration of the pitfalls of moral compromise

Their story is as much our history as well as theirs and others

ISBN10: 0299115046

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God made promises to nations as well as to people

The Pope's Legion: The Multinational Fighting Force That Defended the Vatican AUTH-4506755 "Rusch's story is a powerfulCharles A. Coulombe's The Pope's Legion tells the amazing adventures of the remarkable multinational force that rallied in defense of the Vatican during the ten year war of Italian reunification. 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 Catholic men from