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Ghosts of War: Restless Spirits of Soldiers, Spies, And Saboteurs

Ghosts of War: Restless Spirits of Soldiers, Spies, And Saboteurs

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Author: Jeff Belanger
Publisher: New Page Books
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1109376

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 235
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6

ISBN: 1564148890
Dewey Decimal Number: 133.109
EAN: 9781564148896
ASIN: 1564148890

Publication Date: September 15, 2006
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Product Description
Ghosts of War is where history and mystery meet.

Phantom U.S. Civil War regiments still march through Harpers Ferry, West Virginia before vanishing into the evening sunset.

The beaches of Normandy, France still echo with the cries of the men who gave their lives storming the beaches on D-Day.

The disembodied clip-clop of horse's hooves and the clank of swords from the British Civil War battle of January 25, 1644 are still heard in Nantwich, Cheshire.

Wherever battles were fought and people perished, ghost legends have followed.

Ghosts can be found wherever tragedy left its mark. Where mens and womens lives ended so quickly that their spirits may not even realize that they're dead. Where soldiers, focused on duty, still patrol the front lines of long-finished wars.

The world's battlefields are imprinted with the passions, fears, and horrors of the soldiers who took their enemies lives and often sacrificed their own. Battlefields are still rife with spirit activity, centuries after the last cannon was fired and the last casualty lost.

Ghosts of War is a history book told through the eyes of witnesses who have experienced the ghosts who still haunt these locations. Featuring nearly two dozen battlefields from around the world and throughout the centuries, each chapter includes first-hand accounts of the battle (where available), important facts and dates, historic and ghostly photos of the site, and first-hand ghost sightings and supernatural experiences that still occur.


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5 out of 5 stars Jeff Belanger strikes gold once again   May 18, 2007
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This book is incredible. I am not surprised since everything I have read from Jeff Belanger is awesome. If you have not had the opportunity to read any of Jeff's books, I would definately say its a must for people interested in the paranormal.


3 out of 5 stars Not This Author's Best Work   January 26, 2007
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Jeff Belanger has an excellent ghostly web site and has written some very good ghost books but I'm afraid that this is not his best effort. His books are usually filled with first person eyewitness accounts and stories of ghost sightings that have occurred in the last few years that send cold chills up the reader's spine. There are stories like that in this book and those stories are excellent but all too often the author has decided to include stories that are just old legends and folk tales and in some cases where the ghost or ghosts have been sighted recently there are no first person accounts but instead just a passing and very vague note about ghostly sightings. This book would have in fact been much better if some of the chapters were left out altogether and among those are the chapters about the Gempei War, the Ottoman Wars, Edgehill Battlefield, Biggin Hill and Cassionbury Park. Unfortunately there are also other chapters that leave a lot to be desired but these five are among the worst.

Belanger usually does a superb job of imparting the history of the haunt without overdoing the history and forgetting the ghost and that balance between history and haunt is one of the things that normally make his books so good. Once again, there are stories in this book on which the author does a wonderful job of providing this balance but in too many instances he has let the history overwhelm the haunt. I realize that when one is dealing with locations as steeped in history as the locations chosen for this book it would be very hard to limit oneself when trying to write about what happened there but in one instance the story was all history with no ghost whatsoever and that is just uncalled for.

There are certainly good stories to be found in this book and many of the chapters are written with this author's usual talent for this kind of book. The stories about Fort Zachary Taylor, Andersonville and the Battle of Franklin for example are as well written as any ghost stories that I have ever come across. There is a reasonable amount of history and some very good recent eyewitness accounts in all three of these stories and that is the kind of documentation that I am used to finding in books from Jeff Belanger.

Despite its flaws this is still an above average ghost book. There are to be sure several really bad chapters but the really good chapters go a long way toward making up for the bad ones. This is not the work that I have come to expect from Mr. Belanger but then again I have come to expect near perfection from him and I don't suppose that that is fair. I have read ghost books that were far better than this one but then again I have read a lot of ghost books that were much worse.



2 out of 5 stars Ghost of War, Boring   January 10, 2007
 0 out of 3 found this review helpful

The title is the best part of the book. Each story goes in exaustive detail about a battle or attack (ie Pearl Harbor) that any history student already knowns. This is followed up by a skimpy story, devoid of details, about the haunting. Something like "Some have seen the ghost of an officer walking the decks of the sunken ship". Save your money.


5 out of 5 stars Its survey of lingering impressions at battle sites, military fortifications, and even relics should not be missed.   November 7, 2006
 1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Ghosts of War: Restless Spirits of Soldiers, Spies, and Saboteurs could have been featured in our New Age section but is covered here for its interest to any involved in military history and spirituality. Wartime history is revealed through modern-day legends and ghost sightings, run through the filter of historical fact. Its survey of lingering impressions at battle sites, military fortifications, and even relics should not be missed.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch


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