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The Angels of Mons |  | Author: Arthur Machen
Publisher: Aegypan
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 3233019
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 1598181610
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781598181616
ASIN: 1598181610
Publication Date: June 1, 2006
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From The Bowmen: "There comes a moment in a storm at sea when people say to one another, "It is at its worst; it can blow no harder," and then there is a blast ten times more fierce than any before it. So it was in these British trenches of the first world war. There were no stouter hearts in the whole world than the hearts of these men; but even they were appalled as this seven- times-heated hell of the German cannonade fell upon them and overwhelmed them and destroyed them. And at this very moment they saw from their trenches that a tremendous host was moving against their lines. Five hundred of the thousand remained, and as far as they could see the German infantry was pressing on against them, column upon column, a grey world of men, ten thousand of them, as it appeared afterwards. There was no hope at all. . . ."
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Fascinating Propaganda by a Master of Wierd Horror September 18, 1999
rampageous_cuss (Under Billy Penn's Hat)
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Arthur Machen, the Welsh author of such wierd tales as 'The White People' and 'The Great God Pan' worked as a propagandist for Britain in World War I and this is a collection of his work. His premiere effort, 'The Angels of Mons', is still occasionally unknowingly quoted by believers in the supernatural! In the Fall of 1914 the German Army swept through Belgium, and frustrated by French resistance outside Paris attempted to flank the French Army at Mons. There the British Expeditionary Force had dug in, and they held off the Germans. Machen wrote a tale celebrating the victory in which the ghosts of the English archers of Agincourt appeared to aid the British!
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