The Strange Case of ''The Angels of Mons'' Poetry This is the testament of

This is the testament of Paul Bäumer

he painstakingly transcribed his day-to-day writings into nineteen notebooks

and travel writings to offer an intimate look at a woman who shaped nations

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The Strange Case of ''The Angels of Mons'' Poetry This is the testament ofDescription by Richard J. Bleiler Paperback World War I began disastrously for the English when the Germans routed them at Mons, Belgium, on August 23 and 24, 1914. On September 29, 1914, the Anglo Welsh writer Arthur Machen fictionalized this encounter in a newspaper story, claiming that the English were saved by the appearance of angelic bowmen sent by St. George. But his fiction became accepted as fact. The believersnotables G. K. Chesterton,