The Angel of Mons by Jerred Metz

It used to be the struggle that opened the deadliest century in human historical past. the tale follows Vickers laptop gun groups of British squaddies via their education to the battlefields of WWI. whilst the warriors arrive in Belgium they're initiated right into a mystery society, the “Golden Arrows of God”, and are guaranteed of St. George’s defense. Over 4 days, together with their first actual conflict opposed to the Germans, they're stored through apparition after apparition of angels.
Meanwhile in London, vital participants of esoteric societies (William Butler Yeats and Sir Conan Doyle) obtain messages in regards to the visual appeal of those angels. Invocations, visions, computerized writing and visitations by means of spirits carry the scoop of the surprising rescues of the 1st days of WWI.

"The Angel of Mons is a meditative and transcendent trip right into a battle we will be able to by no means research an excessive amount of approximately, or from."
Kevin Coyne, writer of Marching domestic

This is the start line for Metz’s wide-ranging, unique booklet: St. George, the Angel of Mons, appears to be like out of an unfurling cloud over the Mons-Condé canal, saving Lt. Dease’s Vickers machine-gun workforce. The saint assaults the Germans and saves the BEF from annihilation. a number of days, later Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s and W.B. Yeats’ studies ensure this to be so. old characters rub shoulders with women and men of the author's creation.

Steeped within the Edwardian Age’s ideals concerning the psychic phenomena and spiritualism, the unconventional exhibits that luck within the conflict is greater than an issue of well-sited computer weapons and resolute crews; within the Angel of Mons St. George determines the destiny of the “Golden Arrows of God,” and the British Expeditionary strength.

Antony chicken writer of gents, we are going to Stand and struggle: Le Cateau 1914.

Long after the conflict is over, and the proof of it were recorded in histories, the most widely recognized occasions often is the visual appeal of St. George and angel-warriors combating in safeguard of the British through the retreat from Mons. The papers are filled with it and testimony pours in from both sides.

Harold Begbie “On the facet of the Angels” 1915.

That used to be the conflict of Mons. because the establishing British engagement of what used to be to turn into the good struggle, it grew to become endowed looking back with each caliber of greatness and was once given a spot within the British pantheon equivalent to the battles of Hastings and Agincourt. Legends like that of the Angels of Mons settled upon it.

Barbara Tuchman, The weapons of August