Battlefield Chaplains: Catholic Priests in World War II

by Donald F. Crosby

Book Overview

"If death must come--then far better for it to come when I'm shoulder to shoulder with these men who are fighting to preserve our country. . . . They are going to know that, in spite of being 'scared as hell' like the rest of them, a Catholic Priest is still going ahead and doing his work."

Father James P. Flynn could have been speaking for the rest of the chaplain corps, for he and his comrades shared fully in the lot of the common soldier:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700608141
• ISBN13: 9780700608140
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"