{"product_id":"angels-in-the-trenches-isbn-9781472139597","title":"Angels in the Trenches","description":"\u003cbr\u003eAfter a miraculous escape from the German  military juggernaut in the small Belgian town of Mons in 1914, the first  major battle that the British Expeditionary Force would face in the  First World War, the British really believed that they were on the side  of the angels. Indeed, after 1916, the number of spiritualist societies  in the United Kingdom almost doubled, from 158 to 309. As Arthur Conan  Doyle explained, 'The deaths occurring in almost every family in the  land brought a sudden and concentrated interest in the life after death.  People not only asked the question, \"If a man die, shall he live  again?\" but they eagerly sought to know if communication was possible  with the dear ones they had lost.' From the Angel of Mons to the popular  boom in spiritualism as the horrors of industrialised warfare reaped  their terrible harvest, the paranormal - and its use in propaganda - was  one of the key aspects of the First World War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngels in the Trenches\u003c\/i\u003e  takes us from defining moments, such as the Angel of Mons on the Front  Line, to spirit communication on the Home Front, often involving the  great and the good of the period, such as aristocrat Dame Edith  Lyttelton, founder of the War Refugees Committee, and the physicist Sir  Oliver Lodge, Principal of Birmingham University. We see here people at  every level of society struggling to come to terms with the ferocity and  terror of the war, and their own losses: soldiers looking for miracles  on the battlefield; parents searching for lost sons in the séance room.  It is a human story of people forced to look beyond the apparent  certainties of the everyday - and this book follows them on that  journey.","brand":"Robinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44894888755429,"sku":"NP9781472139597","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/377a049d-fa95-479b-8869-ab000085695a.jpg?v=1767824667","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/angels-in-the-trenches-isbn-9781472139597","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}