Sign up for your $1-per-month trial today at https://www.shopify.com/wartimestories #sponsored In the opening days of World War I, British forces found themselves outnumbered and in retreat after the Battle of Mons. But in the weeks that followed, strange reports began to circulate — stories of something appearing on the battlefield at the moment it was needed most. Drawn from wartime accounts, publications, and firsthand testimony, the legend of the Angels of Mons raises questions about what soldiers believed they saw — and how those stories spread in the aftermath of one of the war’s earliest and most desperate battles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices