The Pope's Battalions: Santamaria, Catholicism and the Labor Split
- ISBN-10
- 0702233897
- ISBN-13
- 9780702233890
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 342
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Univ. of Queensland Press
- Authors
- Ross Fitzgerald, Adam James Carr, William J. Dealy
Description
"The Pope's Battalions considers Santamaria's role and influence from the late 1930s - when he was a young Catholic Actionist in Melbourne - to his death in 1998. This prominent Cold War warrior founded the secretive National Civic Council and was the bra
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