Ghosts at War Book

Where do they go, the grizzled veterans of war, privates and drummer-boys, what happens to them once the smoke clears on the battlefield? Far more people than is realised have encountered ghostly soldiers—from Roman to Roundhead, red-coat to mud-stained Tommy from the trenches of WWI or the phantom pilot from WW2. Evidence suggests that many linger, not only as individuals but en masse, shocked, deeply traumatised, their spirits trapped by fear and terror on the sites of old battlefields. Paul Gater, author of the popular Living With Ghosts, now investigates stories of how events of conflict and courage continue to be re-enacted by the phantoms of war.