Angels in the Trenches - Ruickbie, Leo
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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…mehr

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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 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
Autorenporträt
Dr LEO RUICKBIE, PhD (Lond), MA, BA (Hons), Associate of King's College, is a professional writer, editor, social scientist and historian, specialising in controversial areas of human belief and experience. His PhD is from King's College, London, for his thesis on contemporary witchcraft and magic use, building on research on the theory of re-enchantment that won him an MA with distinction from Lancaster University. He is the author of several books - Witchcraft Out of the Shadows (2004 and 2011), Faustus: The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician (2009), A Brief Guide to the Supernatural (2012), A Brief Guide to Ghost Hunting (2013) and The Impossible Zoo (2016) - as well as numerous publications in scholarly journals, magazines, such as Fortean Times, and newspapers, including the Daily Express. He is also the co-editor with Dr Simon Bacon of Little Horrors: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anomalous Children and the Construction of Monstrosity (2016), and with Dr Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie of The Material Culture of Magic (forthcoming). As well as writing, he is the editor of the Paranormal Review, the magazine of the Society for Psychical Research, established in 1882 for the scientific study of what we now call the 'paranormal', and has worked on several editorial projects for the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (Romano-German Central Museum) in Mainz, Germany. In addition, he is an elected member of the Royal Historical Society, a council member of the Society for Psychical Research, a committee member of the Gesellschaft für Anomalistik (Society for Anomalistics), as well as a member of the Parapsychological Association and the Royal Anthropological Institute. He has appeared several times on the Travel Channel series Mysteries at the Castle and his work has been mentioned in the media from the Guardian to Radio Jamaica. Not only has his expertise been sought by film companies, museums and charities, but he is also cited in the current student book for A-Level Sociology in the UK. He can be found on the web at www.ruickbie.com.