The Strange Case of The Angels of Mons: Arthur Machen's World War I Story, the Insistent Believers, and His Refutations

by Richard J Bleiler

World War I began disastrously for the English when the Germans routed them at Mons, Belgium, on August 23 and 24, 1914. On September 29, 1914, the Anglo-Welsh writer Arthur Machen fictionalized this encounter in a newspaper story, claiming that the English were saved by the appearance of angelic bowmen sent by St. George. But his fiction became accepted as fact. The believers--notables G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle and C. S. Lewis, along...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786498676
• ISBN13: 9780786498673
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher