Anita Rasi May: 1 book
Patriot Priests
French Catholic Clergy and National Identity in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
After serving two and a half years as a stretcher-bearer on the Western Front, Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote that he would “a thousand times rather be throwing grenades or handling a machine gun than be supernumerary as I am now.” Mobilized by military laws dating to 1889 and...
