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Ghosts of War: Restless Spirits of Soldiers, Spies, and Saboteurs [Paperback]

Jeff Belanger (Author)
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September 15, 2006
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 men’s and women’s 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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About the Author

Jeff Belanger leads a very haunted life. In 1999, he launched Ghostvillage.com as a repository for his writings on the supernatural. The site has since become the largest paranormal community on the Web, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors per year. Belanger is the author of The World’s Most Haunted Places, Communicating with the Dead, Encyclopedia of Haunted Places, The Nightmare Encyclopedia, and Our Haunted Lives (all available from New Page Books). Jeff is a regular guest on many regional and national radio programs, lectures across the US on ghosts and the supernatural, and has been featured on television programs about the paranormal. He currently haunts Bellingham, Massachusetts with his wife, Megan.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 235 pages
  • Publisher: New Page Books; 1 edition (September 15, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1564148890
  • ISBN-13: 978-1564148896
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,652,762 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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History, belief, and folklore combine to create paranormal legends that challenge what we know about how the universe works. But are these legends more than just stories? What can we learn about ourselves in exploring the unexplained? Meet Jeff Belanger, the ultimate paranormal insider.

There's a relationship between ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot, strange monsters, ancient mysteries, and other bizarre phenomena. These concepts offer us a path to our past, a connection with our fellow human beings in our present, and a way to ponder our own inevitable future. Though no one can explain exactly how it all works, few can match Jeff's ability to bring the odd out of the fringe and into our living rooms and near our office water coolers.

Belanger's approach is fun and informative. He brings a lot of personality and knowledge to his work. He's the author of a dozen books that have been published in six languages, he's the writer and researcher for the Ghost Adventures show on the Travel Channel, the host of the widely popular Web and cable talk show 30 Odd Minutes, he's a sought-after lecturer who speaks at dozens of events per year for audiences big and small, and he's a recognized media personality appearing on over 200 radio and television programs worldwide including: The History Channel, The Travel Channel, PBS, Living TV (UK), The Maury Show, The CBS News Early Show, National Public Radio, The BBC, Australian Radio Network, Coast to Coast AM, and The 'X' Zone.

 

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not This Author's Best Work, January 25, 2007
This review is from: Ghosts of War: Restless Spirits of Soldiers, Spies, and Saboteurs (Paperback)
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.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Move On to Another Book!, April 2, 2009
This review is from: Ghosts of War: Restless Spirits of Soldiers, Spies, and Saboteurs (Paperback)
This book can't make up its mind as to whether it is a book about ghosts or a book about military history. There are lots of details and descriptions of famous battle, which would be good as a separate book, but few of the historical battle have any tie in with first-person ghost experiences. There are a couple of good stories in the book, but most of them are vague references to "I didn't see anything myself, but people who worked here say they saw this......." Not boring, but not what it advertises itself to be. I'd read the other books in the series.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Jeff Belanger strikes gold once again, May 18, 2007
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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.
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Ghosts of War, World War, United States, Civil War, Fort Meigs, Fort Erie, Guy Fawkes, King Charles, Fort George, Santa Anna, Queen Mary, Fort Taylor, Richard Kimmel, Carnton Plantation, Union Army, General Harrison, San Antonio, Lion Hotel, Cassiobury Park, New York, Vlad Tepes, Pearl Harbor, Andersonville Prison, Library of Congress, Iverson's Pits
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