{"title":"Jerred Metz","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"bellicourt-tunnel-the-crowning-battle-of-the-great-war-paperback","title":"Bellicourt Tunnel: The Crowning Battle of the Great War - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sequel to \"The Angel of Mons: A World War I Legend,\" \"Bellicourt Tunnel: The Crowning Battle of the Great War\" brings the characters Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Winston Churchill, the fictional Tommy Atkins, the Revenant (souls returned from death), and soldiers from the 30th Division, American Expeditionary Force, together in a story of angels and the spirits of British soldiers killed early in the war in the battle that broke the Hindenburg Line. On August 23, 1914 in the first battle against the Germans in the Great War the British Expeditionary Force, facing double the number of enemy, was in peril of annihilation. At the moment the Huns were to cross the Nimy Bridge at the Mons-Condé Canal, St. George at the lead and a horde of cavalry angels swarmed down from the sky, repelled the Germans. Among the British, soldier Lieutenant Maurice Dease, gallantly commanding two machine gun sections at the bridge, wounded three times, died-and his spirit rose to St. George's side in the sky. And St. George brought lowly Private Tommy Atkins-one of Dease's gunners, killed by shrapnel that pierced his throat-back to life to fight on through the war. The 27th and 30th Divisions of the American Expeditionary Force arrived in June, 1918 for training near the Front in France. Corporal Atkins was Lead Instructor for Lewis machine gun sections, Company \"M\", 118th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, American Expeditionary Force, South Carolinians from Sumter, Columbia, Mountain Home, and St. Helena Island. They would fight attached to the British Fourth Army. Atkins and his instructors trained them for leading the attack at Bellicourt Tunnel and breaking the Hindenburg Line, a military and spiritual barrier. Because of the assignment's importance, Atkins initiated the two teams into the \"Golden Arrows of God.\" A mystical order within the secret \"Messieurs de St. Georges\" in Mons, Belgium, the \"Golden Arrows of God\" carried out orders dictated by St. George to the Hierophant, the order's leader. Officially identity of its membership of a dozen was known only by the Hierophant. Though this could not be so. The people knew they were men of power and honor, learned and wise, and whose ordination came from St. George himself. No one ever spoke about who the members were, but the people were wise enough to know. In manuscripts from the 1400's the order was already described as an ancient and powerful organ for spiritual and brotherly good and in direct communion with the City's patron saint. Their first sight of Atkins drew forth trust, admiration, and hope from the Gamecocks and Swamp Foxes. Inwardly they bowed to Instructor Thomas Atkins, he, worthy of high regard. But how they knew, none could fathom. Slowly, through their own senses, faint impulses, they felt the otherworldly in Atkins. More than once, when they caught him in peripheral vision they saw his face shine. Once, for an instant, it flashed bright as the sun, and all saw. A slight thrill of the breath all the way to unprovoked joy rising in their hearts-signs they received of the workings of Atkins power. Atkins' spirit comrades will help these Americans in battle. In the last weeks of September, 1918-historians would later call it The One Hundred Days, or The Advance to Victory-these boys, these soldiers, were leading a new life, an ocean away from home, among ways of life they had never seen, a war that wore the body and stunned the senses, the mind, the imagination. The machine gunners saw destruction and misery, breathed the stench of life's raw elements, putrid decay and rot. They heard the guns and explosions, breathed burned gunpowder and explosives. The cooking was not their mothers'. They had to learn the British Army way of doing things. Now, at the Battle of Bellicourt Tunnel angel warriors will prepare and help the Americans in one last great battle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67868105244895,"sku":"9780933439191","price":22.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/OYNL5lTpQG9780933439191.webp?v=1790884445"},{"product_id":"the-angel-of-mons-a-world-war-i-legend-paperback","title":"The Angel of Mons: A World War I Legend - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eJerred Metz takes us back to the war that opened the deadliest century in human history. A battalion of angels, mystical intercessors, and a cast of engaging humans ranges from British machine gunners to Winston Churchill, Arthur Conan Doyle, and W.B. Yeats. The Angel of Mons is a meditative and transcendent journey into a war we can never learn too much about, or from. Kevin Coyne, author of Marching Home This is the starting point for Metz's wide-ranging, original book: St. George, the Angel of Mons, appears out of an unfurling cloud over the Mons-Conté canal, saving Lt. Dease's Vickers machine-gun crew. The saint attacks the Germans and saves the BEF from annihilation. A few days, later Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's and W.B. Yeats' experiences confirm this to be so. Historical characters rub shoulders with men and women of the author's creation.Steeped in the Edwardian Age's beliefs about the psychic phenomena and spiritualism, the novel shows that success in the battle is more than a matter of well-sited machine guns and resolute crews; in The Angel of Mons St. George determines the fate of the \"Golden Arrows of God,\" and the British Expeditionary Force. Antony Bird author of Gentlemen, We will Stand and Fight: Le Cateau 1914.Long after the war is over, and the facts of it have been recorded in histories, one of the most widely known events will be the appearance of St. George and angel-warriors fighting in defense of the British during the retreat from Mons. The papers are full of it and testimony pours in from all sides. Harold Bigbie \"On the Side of the Angels\" 1915.That was the Battle of Mons. As the opening British engagement of what was to become the Great War, it became endowed in retrospect with every quality of greatness and was given a place in the British pantheon equal to the battles of Hastings and Agincourt. Legends like that of the Angels of Mons settled upon it.Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68086928998623,"sku":"9780933439023","price":26.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/pFVPeKMLyn9780933439023.webp?v=1792367553"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jerred-metz.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}