Angels in the Trenches
Spiritualism, Superstition and the Supernatural During the First World War
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'People not only asked the question, "If a man die, shall he live again?" but they eagerly sought to know if communication was possible withthe dear ones they had lost.' Sir Arthur Conan Doyle After their miraculous escape from the German military juggernaut at Mons in 1914, many British soldiers really did believe that they had been saved by angels. On the home front, interest in Spiritualism increased dramatically as the death toll rose. The unimaginable slaughter of the First World War brought a sudden and concentrated interest in the paranormal. Could one communicate with the dead? Were th...
'People not only asked the question, "If a man die, shall he live again?" but they eagerly sought to know if communication was possible withthe dear ones they had lost.' Sir Arthur Conan Doyle After their miraculous escape from the German military juggernaut at Mons in 1914, many British soldiers really did believe that they had been saved by angels. On the home front, interest in Spiritualism increased dramatically as the death toll rose. The unimaginable slaughter of the First World War brought a sudden and concentrated interest in the paranormal. Could one communicate with the dead? Were the British on the side of the angels? Could lucky charms avert bombs and bullets? Was the war predicted? Famous for Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would become a propagandist for the State and Spiritualism, and lose a son and many close relatives during these terrible years. W. B. Yeats would investigate spirit communication for himself. Lord Kitchener would have his fate foretold. War poet Rupert Brooke would return from the dead . . . Sir Oliver Lodge would talk again to his son, killed in action. The experience of the paranormal, whether through Spiritualism, psychical research or superstition, would become a central, if not defining, aspect of the First World War. Based on original sources and archival research, the story told here is the very human one of people forced to look beyond the apparent certainties of traditional religion and orthodox science; it is a story that still challenges those certainties today. 'I have always admired Dr Leo Ruickbie's comprehensive expertise in the paranormal' Rosemary Ellen Guiley, bestselling author
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