Spirits of battle
Subtitle: featuring "The bowmen"
By: Arthur Machen
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Mineola, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780486789392
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Fiction; Mons, 1st Battle of, Mons, Belgium, 1914; Apparitions; English Paranormal fiction; English War stories
Other titles: Bowmen
Work titles: Angels of Mons
Description: "An inspiring story of divine intervention, "The Bowmen" tells of the miraculous appearance of angels at World War I's Battle of Mons and their rescue of British soldiers. An instant bestseller upon its 1914 publication, the book includes two additional wartime legends by a master teller of supernatural tales" --
Notes: "This Dover edition, first published in 2014, is an unabridged republication of The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War, first published by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., London, in 1915" -- Verso title page.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The bowmen; title: The soldiers' rest; title: The monstrance; title: The dazzling light; title: The bowmen and other noble ghosts by "The Londoner"; title: Postscript.