The War in La Vendee

By George J. Hill, M.A. When the Revolution moved against the Church, the farmers and craftsmen of the Vendée and of Brittany did what the cities would not: they took up whatever they had and fought for the Cross and the Crown. They were peasants, led in part by their own priests, and for a time they beat the armies of the Republic.

The book carries the story through to the Little Chouannerie — the extraordinary episode in which schoolboys of Brittany took the field in their turn, and showed a courage that shamed men twice their age.

An account of one of the most remarkable episodes of Catholic resistance in modern European history, and one still largely untaught.

345 pages, softcover.