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About the book: Ghosts are just as likely to play a game of billiards or make a broadcast as they are to rattle chains or appear headless in draughty corridors of gothic mansions, and this intriguing and often spinechilling book includes both traditional and more contemporary phantoms. It includes Cromwellian cavalrymen, Lancastrian Pikemen and Roman legionaries. They jostle for attention alongside World War II spectral bombardiers, ghostly Korean mercenaries, phantom GIs and ex-army train drivers. The book is a sequel to the popular 'Phantoms, Legends, Customs and Superstitions of the Sea' and brings together accounts of ghostly sightings from all over the world, including France, America, Sweden, Turkey, The Far East, Germany and, of course, from Great Britain. Many of them are unexplainable and all of them are fascinating. The book doesn't just restrict itself to apparitions of the dead. The author includes an in-depth study of the emergence of military occultism which took the form of idolatry, superstition, taboos, necromancy, divination, astrology, and cults reflected in flags and badges About the author: Chapters: Chapter 1. Phantoms At War Chapter 2. Gleanings from Galipoli Chapter 3. Spectral Armies Chapter 4. Raising Soldiers from the dead Chapter 5. Classic European Evanescences Chapter 6. Far Eastern Shades Chapter 7. Omens and Warnings Chapter 8. Sir Walter Scott's favourite ghost Chapter 9. Ghosts which soldier on Chapter 10. Ghostly sentries & men-at-arms Chapter 11. Romans, Rogues and Refugees Chapter 12. American Tales Chapter 13. Supplement on the Dieppe Raid Chapter 14. Some Military Traditions Chapter 15. Military Occultism Bibliography; Index |
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