I want to welcome everyone to the first reading of book six in my reading series.

This book is called The Last Crusade by Warren E. Carroll. It came out in 1996 and it is a short book telling of the Crusades who save Spain from communism and death in the Spanish

Civil War.

It's the first book I ever read cover to cover on the Spanish Civil War,

and it was the one that left the most lasting impact.

So I've talked about the Spanish Civil War, done some episodes with Thomas on it,

did a recent episode with Carl Dahl, and I was thinking about what I wanted to follow up

Israel Shahach's book with. I wanted to get away from that subject but I wanted to get into something that I know a lot of people are interested

in. A lot of people still don't know anything about.

And I like the way Carol comes at this book.

Warren Carol was a Catholic historian and the founder of Christendom College.

And this book is very well written and it really, it hits you hard.

So to get an idea of what happened in the war,

he concentrates on certain aspects of the war,

especially how the church was targeted

and how Catholic Spain responded.

So, before I start, sort of remind everybody about the reading the watching of movies and

reviewing that Thomas and I are doing Freeman Beyond the Wall.com forward

slash movies and my partnership with NELOP Hill Press.

Anything you order from there,

if you put in PQ all lowercase in checkout,

you get 5% off. So I'm going to start reading this one and see how far we get.

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