The Angel of Mons recounts the tale of the advancement of German troops through Mons in 1914, to meet the ill--prepared British Expeditionary Force. The British troops were forced to retreat, with little hope of saving the lives of those at the front. It is in these extreme circumstances that many of the wounded and dying soldiers brought back from the Western Front, reported having been rescued by strange angelic forms in the sky that protected them from massacre -- The Angel of Mons. David Clarke follows this and other myths and rumours in an effort to trace the reality behind the Angel of Mons and discover what it was the soldiers saw.
- ISBN10 0470862785
- ISBN13 9780470862780
- Publish Date 18 February 2005 (first published 26 April 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 7 April 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English