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Whom Gods Would Destroy, Part I: The Architects of Hell is the first part of a trilogy uncovering the paranormal mysteries and secret histories of the First World War, blending fact and fiction into a metatextual tapestry of modern monsters and ancient terrors. The fires of the Great War cast a shadow history, too strange and terrible to twist into a single, rational narrative. Rumors spread of angelic visions above the battlefield, and airships haunted the clouds. Giant rats and mad wolves thrived in the trenches, while feral and ghostly deserters stalked abandoned dugouts in No-Man's-Land. Battalions vanished into mists, devils lurked in the corners of corpse-rendering plants, faeries danced in photographs, sorcerers plotted in diplomatic offices, sea serpents assaulted submarines, and giants woke from the earth.
Telling the story of WWI through the paranormal isn't a new idea (though certainly not mainstream). What sets this book apart is the methodical rigor of its documentation — and "rigor" isn't too strong a word.
Every episode is backed by period sources: the author doesn…