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Book Details Title: Priests de la Resistance!: The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century Author: The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie Number of pages: Publisher: Oneworld Publications (January 14, 2020) Language: English ISBN: 1786076721 Rating: 4,7     5 reviews

Book Description Review ‘… this book is a gripping story of bravery, derring-do and cunning in the face of Fascism… vividly told tales of 15 people who became caught up in the struggles against Fascism in Europe in the 1930s’, Tablet’15 short, engaging essays… The reverend is a good writer with a light touch, and a natural storyteller.’ — New Statesman‘… it is refreshing to read an unashamedly admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line… readable and moving.’ — BBC History Magazine‘A fascinating and entirely benign book, imbued with a surprisingly muscular Christianity and full of stories you may not know but which need to be heard’ — Spectator BOOKS OF THE YEAR'[T]his winter’s best title is Fergus Butler-Gallie’s work on wartime heroics by the clergy’ — Patrick Kidd, The Times‘A timely and uplifting book… An hugely enjoyable if slightly eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil… [Butler-Gallie] achieves an inspiring effect through the sheer cumulative impact of so many brave decisions.’ — Julian Coman, Observer‘Here the Reverend Butler-Gallie wittily profiles 15 “loose cannons” who stood up against fascism’. — Strong Words‘Butler-Gallie serves them and their stories well with background information, a fluent narrative style, and a fine eye for the quirky and telling personal or historical detail.’ — Church Times’As entertaining as it is erudite, this enthralling anthology presents a cornucopia of quirky, courageous Fascist-fighting clerics.’ — LoveReading‘A field guide to 20th-century priests, monks and nuns from all over the world who were prepared to die for their faith and to die saving others… He proves it true that comedy and tragedy run side by side, and that some of the most unlikely people turn out to be saints and martyrs… Bracing and lively.’, The Times Read more About the Author The Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie is Assistant Curate at Liverpool Parish Church and the author of A Field Guide to the English Clergy, a Best Book of the Year for The Times, Mail on Sunday and BBC History. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Oxford and a bachelor’s degree in theology from the University of Cambridge. He once accidentally appeared on Only Connect. This is his second book. Read more Customers Review: This is a great book, and a great reminder to us all of the necessity of resistance in times of turmoil. When the weak are threatened, Christians and especially clergy should stand up and be counted. The irrepressible Assistant Curate of Liverpool Parish Church, the Rev. Fergus Butler-Gallie (and you thought Hoare was odd!), who wrote that uproarious classic of liturgical literature, A Field Guide to the English Clergy, has done it again.Priests de la Resistance! (which is, inevitably, sub-titled Loose Canons Who Fought Fascism…) is, perhaps surprisingly, every bit as entertaining as its predecessor, requiring as much of a sense of humour, but no more of a religious predisposition, than its precursor. Singling out fifteen men and women of the cloth from World War II, of singular bravery and eccentricity, distinguished as much for their character as their courage, the inimitable Rev’d. Fergus has spun a distinctively odd, highly entertaining, and ineffably British memorial to them, which joins the Field Guide as a minor classic of its kind.From the ever tipsy Father Kir, immortalised through his Kir Royale, by way of such luminaries as The Forger-Priest of the Esquiline Hill, The Feisty Nicotine Nun, and the immortal Archbishop Damaskinos, who, facing the firing squad, calmly protested: “Please respect our traditions! In Greece, we hang our Archbishops!”, the anecdotes in this priceless little tome are as funny as they are fascinating, depicting, as they do, the indefatigable courage, humour and leadership of these truly heroic souls.As to the irrepressible Rev’d. Fergus himself, one can but hope for more. Endowed as he is with not merely an astonishing facility for the pen, but degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge, behold a polymath with a sense of humour!